21/36 Surely it cannot be requisite and advantageous to withhold them from the world so long as you imagine. Would Miss Garrow let me offer one to the _Book of Beauty_? One of the best poems of our days" [on death], "appeared in the last _Book of Beauty_. But in general its poetry is very indifferent. With best regards to the ladies, "I am ever, my dear sir, "Yours most sincerely, "W.S.L." * * * * * The following, dated merely "Gore House, Sunday morning," was written, or at least posted, on the 14th May, 1838. |