BIB_ID
196114
Accession number
MA 13956
Creator
Darley, George, 1795-1846.
Display Date
[1828].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "A. Cunningham Esqr."
Dated: "Thursday morning."
Written on paper watermarked "1828".
Bottom corner of second page cut away.
Letter probably refers to Cunningham's work as an editor on his volume of collected verse entitled The Anniversary: Or Poetry and Prose for MDCCCXXIX (London : John Sharpe, 1829), which included contributions from Darley, A. Ferguson, John Clare, and Mrs. Emmerson, all of whom are mentioned here in the body of the letter.
Dated: "Thursday morning."
Written on paper watermarked "1828".
Bottom corner of second page cut away.
Letter probably refers to Cunningham's work as an editor on his volume of collected verse entitled The Anniversary: Or Poetry and Prose for MDCCCXXIX (London : John Sharpe, 1829), which included contributions from Darley, A. Ferguson, John Clare, and Mrs. Emmerson, all of whom are mentioned here in the body of the letter.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Returning a proof or manuscript and remarking that he has only found "but an error or two of a trifling nature"; expressing his appreciation for a poem by Ferguson, which he likes "not so much for its heart as its heartiness", and remarking that there are "some good things in Clare & not one in Emerson"; asking why Cunningham did not notify him at once that "the long poem would not do", and asking that he be direct in future dealings ("Pray use no ceremony with me. I do not want to sink your vessel with pig-iron"); stating that he is ready to supply "a little stuffing at the end of a page" or a "dramatic scene", should Cunningham wish it, "and if you don't I don't. This is my way of dealing."
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