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MS untraced; text is taken from Gentleman’s Magazine, 74 (August 1804). Previously published: Gentleman’s Magazine, 74 (August 1804), 722–723.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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WE beg to communicate to the publick, through the medium of your Miscellany, the result of the late subscription
edition of Chatterton’s Works, for the benefit of his sister, Mrs. Newton.
After using every endeavour for two years, it was found that the number of Subscribers were not sufficient to
defray the expenses of the proposed edition; when the Editors entered into an engagement with Messrs. Longman and Rees, who, on having the work
secured to them, undertook to print it at their own expence, and to allow Mrs. Newton 850 copies gratis, for
her own Subscribers, with a reversionary interest of 50 copies on the sale of every succeeding edition.
The following is a statement of the accounts.
When the 128 copies, now in the hands of Booksellers, are sold, and the 17 Subscribers have paid for their copies,
it will produce about 200l. in addition to the above.
It will afford the Subscribers much pleasure to learn that Mrs. Newton lived to receive 184l.
15s. from the profits of her brother’s works, which supported her in the decline of her life, when (as
she expressed it) she would otherwise have wanted bread.
Mrs. Newton having appointed, by will, two highly respectable Gentlemen as her Executors, and as the undertaking is now brought so nearly to a conclusion, the Editors have thought it proper to transfer the business to those Gentlemen, who have kindly undertaken to superintend this, and some other affairs, for the benefit of Miss Newton, the niece, and only surviving relative of Chatterton.