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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 25. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Last night Sir Grosvenor I wrote the following lines. Tellez-vous me votre opinion whether they are too much in character to be prefixed to Roderick
I give it to you with its variæ lectionesall those things were remembered which were worthy of remembrance this (poem) perhaps would be one of them.
How this might look in rhyme I am too busy & too idle to try, since the other rhymes came in my way. – It will be some time
before the poem is published as you well know, – quite long enough to deliberate upon the fitness or unfitness of such a
dedication, – for if I were ever so much in love with it now, that love would have leisure to cool. I am a little afraid of
sending it to Croker, as foreseeing a very likely dilemma, – that he may object to the
manner of this & that yet having offered it to his notice I contract an obligation of dedicating
<find myself obliged to dedicate> it to the Prince, in some other manner,
– to which I am altogether disinclined
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Sunday
Tomorrow I shall send you the 17 Book of Roderick viâ Gifford.
return it as soon as it has made its rounds. I am far advanced in the 18th
I am sorry to see that Herriess brother is wounded.
There is a tragedy dedicated to me, called Mustapha: a good play, written with dramatic ability, but an absence of
poetical beauty, which I know not whether to think intentional, or natural.I was invited to
d I have received a card to dine yesterday at the Royal Academy.
The Bust? the Bust?
the Bust?
Inter honoresxxxxx b had Isaac Reidbeen felt uncomfortable in refusing
it.