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Huntington Library, HM 4865. Previously published: J. W. Robberds (ed.), A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich, 2 vols (London, 1843), II, pp. 289–292.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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How a letter for me should happen to be directed to Norwich is more than my
utmost ingenuity can explain.
If business had not continually been pressing & accumulating upon me I should have written to tell you of my
goings on. You may perhaps before this reaches you, have received some x a specimen of them, in the shape of my first
volume of Brazil,th proof is
now lying on my table; your original objection to the story will not be removed, – the book of Apocalypse itself not
being more remote from all ordinary sympathies, – but I think you will approve the manner in which I have given to rhyme the
freedom & force of blank-verse.
The Prospectus of the Registers of my manufactory. The person originally chosen for the Annalist was somehow
connected with Ministry, – & thence the boast in the Prospectus of materials not generally accessible. I have reason to
imagine it was young Rose,xxxx xxxxx <is to carry> abroad my opinions instead of those of
the treasury. I am at present waiting for some Portugueze documents which I fear will arrive too late for immediate use; – this
month will compleat my work the booksellers are delighted with it, – I myself, satisfied.
Both Burdett & LethbridgeP compelling Parliament to pronounce a decided opinion upon a subject better left in obscurity. All things appear
to me tending to revolution in this country, – yet they who wish for such a crisis are only such men as Wardle’sxxx were he living, against any ministry who would abandon Spain, & treat with
Bonaparte.
Your theological speculations I disapprove chiefly because I cannot think any market would be found for them.
I go to Durham in May, to London towards the close of autumn. my
Uncle (now a married man) is settled at Streatham, – a living which the D of
Bedfordr Sayers is tormented by such a complaint. Which are his
articles in the Quarterly?
Send me your books thro Longman.