BIB_ID
103554
Accession number
MA 23300.5
Creator
Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835.
Display Date
Saint Asaph, Wales, 18?? September 21.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Alaric A. Watts Esq're / 3 Park Square / Leeds / Yorkshire."
This letter is housed with four additional autograph manuscript items. (MA 23300.1, MA 23300.2, MA 23300.3 and MA 23300.4)
The poem was published with the title "Körner and his Sister."
Alaric Watts was the editor of the Literary Souvenir from 1824-1838.
This letter is housed with four additional autograph manuscript items. (MA 23300.1, MA 23300.2, MA 23300.3 and MA 23300.4)
The poem was published with the title "Körner and his Sister."
Alaric Watts was the editor of the Literary Souvenir from 1824-1838.
Summary
Asking if she could correct an error in the fourth line of the fifth stanza of the manuscript of the poem, "The Grave of Körner" she sent him the day before; saying "I have found reason to fear that I had made a strange mistake in the fourth line of the fifth stanza - 'And in your gentle deaths divided not.' - Will you have the goodness to substitute the word 'early' for 'gentle', which latter would be an extraordinary epithet applied to the death of a Man killed in battle. Are you acquainted with the little story of the Mother and the Lion of France? It would, I think, be an interesting subject for the embellishment of some future number of the Souvenir. I met with it lately in the poems of Kind, (the author of the Freischutz) and it is there mentioned as a well-known tradition."
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