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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Previously published: A Catalogue of the Collection of Autographs Formed by Ferdinand Julius Dreer, 2 vols (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1890–1893), II, p. 126.
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I am very sorry that your Letter should have remained so long unacknowledged. the fact is I have been visiting in Herefordshire & Worcestershire, & amid company, journeying & some employments that follow me every where, I recollected not my unanswered letters at home.
Your proposals are hanging in Cottles shop.
I am sorry, in considering only my own gratif<ic>ation that your essays are to be delayed.is consist of 10.10.6.6. 10.6.6.10. —. 8.6.6.10. —. 8.8.10.6. — 6.6.10.6. — 6.10.10.6. — 8.6.10.6.
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In such metres neither the lines or stanzas must run into each other, & the regular harmony must be as perceptible
to the ear as to the eye. I have yet other arrangements to try. these odes
If my figure-schemes are not sufficiently comprehensible, tell me so, & I will send a specimen of each. you would perhaps find them useful in your essay on metre, for tho as yet unique, I think they will not always be so
Have you seen a volume of Lyrical Ballads &c? no authors name – but by Coleridge & Wordsworth.
Allen has written to me from Portugal. he requests me to call on you, & express his sincere thankfulness &
attachment. on he also wants some account, which you probably can give me for him, of the expence of
taking graduating as M.B. at Cambridgex 25 Shillings a day, in the
army.
You perhaps know that Coleridge & Wordsworth are going, or gone, to Germany.
Edith is much better, she desires to be remembered to you.
I did not see your friend Miss Greenly
I hope to see you in November, when I shall be for some few days in town.