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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 25. Not previously published.
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Why you are a greater villain than I thought you, – a more unpardonable sinner.
Extract from a note from Gifford. May 2. 1815.
“Grosvenor has had a very enviable opportunity. – He will I dare say render you an interesting account of his peregrination.”
There you wretch! Read that! – Here have I been ever since your return daily expecting your news from Ld Wellington & the armies, – & what was to be hoped & what was to be feared, & what was to be expected, &c &c &c, – to say nothing of your dangers by fire & by water, – & the Devil a word have you told me!
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Can you send me some money? – for I am in want thereof. My Egyptian articlecar sorely grudge the time which is bestowed upon such temporary
& time-serving compositions. But what with the sudden subtraction of my Edinburgh xxxxxxxx resources,yet you every temporary avocation
necessarily delays that time.
It does not surprize me that you do not like the Inscriptionsbeleagered which you propose is not applicable; – it means besieged, & the people of
Porto were not in a state of siege.
Longman proposes a pocket size, – & the notes to be extended to Biographical
memoirs, – which I shall adopt in those cases <only> where there is good matter for them. He then thinks the book likely to be
popular. A small edition in 4to he says may be printed if I desire it. I do not desire it. Not that I expect it to be popular, –
but in any size – but I would not clog the sale by any foolish preference for a handsome outset. Roderick& it will no doubt stick when it reaches a third, – & I am woefully
behind hand in their books. A fashionable sale would send me smoothly on to Port Prosperity, – but it is impossible that any
such a poem can get into vogue.
A youth of great promise wrote to me some three years ago about his future prospects. I gave him good advice, – &
got him placed at Emanuel College, where he was doing as well as could be asked; his family built much upon him, – & with good
reason. This fever has cut him off – & he like Kirke White is laid to rest
in the Cloister of his own college. His name was Dusautoy, – his father