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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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Ready as I should be to repent of any unjust severity, or even of
just severity if exercised without adequate occasion, I have no compunctions
respecting Alexander Chalmers.t our predecessors. Perhaps you have heard
Duppa speak of his complaints,
for Duppa knows him. I cannot
repent. By the bye I am to have double pay for the article, – a thing equally
unexpected & convenient at this juncture, when the Constable is lagging
sadly astern.
The battle in which Roderick
The MSS
Murray leads me into temptation by
saying he has a fancy to go on with the Registerwithout it, that I know not how to answer. For tho, God
knows, I am willing enough to be at work, I require sometimes the prospect of a
direct remuneration to make me progress working upon a given subject. To express
myself more plainly I xx am so much inclination to sacrifice work of
profit, to work of reputation which is in other words work of pleasure, that it
sometimes useful to have the profit full in sight. On the other hand I am not
made of iron, & having but one head & one pair of hands if I take the
yoke of a yearly volume again upon my neck there will be very little
leis time left for other & greater worthier
things. This edition of Roderick will give me from 100 to 120 £: a second
edition will produce about as much more, & may probably sell in
the in this the first twelvemonths; the book will then settle into a
slow & steady sale, & may bring me in regularly some 20 or 30 £ – per
year. And this is the extent of the possible profits. I am not discontented at
this, believing it is not possible that the same work should produce
great immediate profit, & permanent fame. It cannot become popular if it be
about the above the pitch of the σι
τιολλοι,
I will write a few lines to Mr
Roberts. The book is, to me, very interesting –
I hope Gifford
will exhibit the Docstor in his next number