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Houghton Library, bMS Eng 265.1 (4). Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Kehamiana. 1st
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Your first emendation standsRose – is a final objection,
& theres an end of it.
Concerning polygamy give me credit till we
meet & I show you my written
chapter upon the system of Mohammed.
For the opening – I had thought about the commutation act myself. – & you have given me the detail – read therefore accord to the Bedford Edition.
My stop is thus – Myriads of torches fling
Their flaring radiance on the gloom,
Blotting the stars from heaven; –
You may chuse between – rise upward – & ascending – but the image is wanting – at least, to my eye it is a tremendous picture – a sort of hell fire light – a yellow blaze below – & above smoke & blackness.
for chāuntiňg tȟy sōng ǒf prāise – chuse you which be the most falling to your ear – ănd chāunt tȟe sōng ǒf prāise – to me the first has a more jelly-bag sort of a sound.
Multitude I prefer to train – because it is a bigger word. your association with upright – will be nobody elses association – I pray you let Arvalan sit still. your after annotation I will think about
Bright & bridal I
likes.
For in that mighty multitude
Was none who loves the dead. – my stupid printer made the error, & the stupid reader did not discover it.
The voice of the coming storm – is perhaps
not loud enough. – reserved for the opinion of the Twelve
Judges.
Come on – is not bald Sir – & if it be
bald Sir tho you put a wig upon the it – it will still be bald at bottom below it. mark you
Sir – what does a big word with a little meaning look like?
– Why like me in a Dutchmans breeches.
A noun substantive can stand by itself – the Devil must be in it then if two substantives cannot stand together – arm in arm Grosvenor –
Kehama lights the pile – probatum est.
The xxxxx
remarks which I have not noticed – conclude I do not like –
& as they are not a matter of mere liking – the voice
potential may as well be subintellects. But you will
perceive the use of your remarks by the alterations they
have made – so go on.
The more dramatic – the more lyric narrative
poetry is, the better. this is a main article of my poetical
creed. But Grosvenor I have acquired a relish for the
research – & the reasoning, & the authoritative tone
of historytime
labour is sold to this Amadissorely greatly upon the
rest. Kehama will fare the better for you. I shall write
sometimes for the sake of the sooner filling a sheet. –
Sometimes I stop for pure vexation that there exist in
England sources of information which are yet beyond my reach
– the views of Hodgesxxx imagination would be digested from them.
there are botanical works for my foregrounds – & these
books I know not where to see – tho they ought to be always
at my elbow –
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Dear Grosvenor so much was written
immediately on receiving yours – the rest of the first book
is also in great forwardness for you – but for many days my
eyes have suffered such ‘dim suffusion’
Can you not come on the other half way to
No 12 St
James’s Place Kingsdown? –