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Poor Seward! I write to you Duppa with a strange sinking of the heart. he introduced me to you — he purified & strengthened my heart — & he has left a vacancy there which will not easily be supplied.
Of my Joan of Arc. the bookseller who has purchased the copy
right will have a frontispiece.design character &
conceive my ideas, these are the lines as narrated by the Maid.
I should give you the lines expressing the character of Joan after she had once been awakened to patriotism.
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Underwood
forgetting your number I enclose this to Bedford. will you be good enough to tell me if you can get this done for me & what you estimate the expence at. for artists use your own judgement & I am sure the design that you approve will please me.
God bless you.
what was it that killd my dear Edmund Seward? I wrote to him immediately on hearing of his illness. & William answerd it — for it arrived the very hour of his death. you know not how I esteemed & loved him nor the deep & lasting impression his death has made upon me.
direct to me at Mrs Sawiers. No 25 College Street Bristol.
the poem is in the press & will be deliverd on the first of January. I am anxious for its success — & a good
deal is for Cottles sake the bookseller, a liberal worthy man. type & paper
are very splendid. for the poetry I could say much myself.
I wish to have th a vignette engraved for a volume of poems. the subject from my Botany Bay
Monologue.
this is troubling you — but I believe you will feel pleasure in being busied for xxxxxxxx me
farewell.