Letter from R. H. Horne, London, to Charles Ollier,1845 June 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

About the publication of his "Seven Ballad Romances;" saying "Mr. Leigh Hunt has informed me, in confidence, that you intend re-commencing business as a publisher; under certain limitations, however, which I have forgotten; and this must plead my excuse with you if the proposal I am about to make be of an unsuitable kind. I contemplate a small volume, to be entitled "Seven Ballad Romances, by the author of Orion". I think it may prove a forcible and popular volume - so far as such a thing can be expected of poetry at this time, which to be sure is not saying much. Howbeit, you are to judge. Four of the seven are finished. Would you like to see them? Pray, my dear Sir, do not consider it any point of delicacy to accept this proposal of seeing the M.S.S.; nor must you, if you see them, hesitate for a moment to decline the publication, if you do not discover some prospect of its success. I have also a wish to offer you the publication of the next edition of "Orion". It is now in the 6th (the 5th & 6th were published at half a crown) and the edition is coming to an end. I do not believe there are 100 copies remaining. Will you be kind enough to turn these matters over in your mind, and favor me with a line. Your name is associated with my earliest and strongest enthusiasm in poetry, and I should be too happy to continue the companionship."