BIB_ID
402240
Accession number
MA 3449.7
Creator
Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.
Display Date
1843 May 26.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 10.9 x 9.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Miss E.B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St / Cavendish Sq."
Summary
Relating news of an advertisement for the publication of his new work; apologizing for not writing but explaining that he had been to visit his mother in Brighton, had been unwell and also "hard at work. My last original is just out of hand. I got tired of criticism - and lo! I have done a thing myself. You will see an advertis[e]ment in the Athenæum, Lit'y Gazz'tte, or Examiner tomorrow evening which will give you a novel sensation. At first you will not believe your eyes. After making speculations, you will perhaps recollect that America declared me not to be in an accessible form. Now, you shall see what American will say? Here, many will say 'Horne has gone mad' - with some other pleasant assertions and opinions, for which I am prepared. The problem must solve itself;" asking, in a postscript, "But what can have become of the volume of poems you were going to publish? No sooner did you find a publisher, and discover that you were not obliged to lose money, than you withdrew with an air of offended dignity - Where are those poems? You can throw the same amount of money away, all the same, you know? Any publisher will receive it if you insist upon it;" asking, in a second postscript written on the inside of the envelope flap, "Have you sent your volume to America to be published?"
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