BIB_ID
402234
Accession number
MA 3449.5
Creator
Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.
Display Date
"Thursday" [1843 March 30].
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 13.7 x 9.1 cm + envelope
Notes
A footnote to this letter, in the online edition cited below, identifies the poem referred to in the postscript as 'Sonnets Upon the Punishment of Death."
Date and place of writing from postmark.
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Miss E.B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St / Cavendish Sq."
See MA 3449.3 for an earlier discussion of the possibility of publishing his poems in America with the help of Miss Barrett.
Date and place of writing from postmark.
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Miss E.B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St / Cavendish Sq."
See MA 3449.3 for an earlier discussion of the possibility of publishing his poems in America with the help of Miss Barrett.
Summary
Discussing the details of the possible publication of his poems in America; saying "...I leave it all to your care and judgment. I would on no account send them any poem before hand. Let us beware of Space. All 'high terms' are mere sound unless one knows the size of the type and page. Graham's Miscellany has a very large page -- very small type -- and double columns. At this rate three guineas a page would be very hard work for us;" referring to a portrait on exhibition and, in a postscript, "I have never 'recovered' poor Wordsworth from his series of Sonnets in favour of hanging."
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