Taylor had none of Carlyle's inspiration.

Not a line of his work survives in print in our day, but it was no small thing to have been the friend and correspondent of Southey, whose figure in literary history looms larger now than it did when Emerson asked contemptuously, 'Who's Southey ?'; and to have been the wise mentor of George Borrow is in itself to be no small thing in the record of letters.

There is a considerable correspondence between Taylor and Sir Richard Phillips in Robberds's _Memoir_, and Phillips seemed always anxious to secure articles from Taylor for the _Monthly_, and even books for his publishing-house.

Hence the introduction from Taylor that Borrow carried to London might have been most effective if Phillips had had any use for poor and impracticable would-be authors.
FOOTNOTES: [35] _Three Generations of Englishwomen_, by Janet Ross, vol.i, p.

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[36] _A Memoir of the Life and Writings of William Taylor of Norwich: Containing his Correspondence of many years with the late Robert Southey, Esquire, and Original Letters from Sir Walter Scott and other Eminent Literary Men_.