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Docketed in pencil at foot of page 'Authoress of book on Poor Laws &c'. One page, quarto. Creased, discoloured and stained, with the rear repaired with tape. Interesting letter, referring to the publication of an essay. She is gratified by her correspondent's approbation of her 'attempt' and accepts his offer. Had the essay been published she would have asked for proof-sheets. 'I believe I have made a mis-quotation about the 8th or 9th page, & have written "Whosoever hath not &c" instead of "If any man have not". She has given his message to Mr Elton [Clifton resident Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 1778-1853]: how much it is to be wished that the friends of freedom throughout Europe would now really "act the Briton's part" It seems hardly credible that in the present day, a set of selfish unprincipled men should dare to form this iniquitous project in defiance of the execrations of mankind -'. Passes on the best wishes of her mother and Miss Morgan. Signed 'Maria Acland'. Image on application.

2pp., 4to. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed by Elton, on reverse of second leaf, to 'John Taylor Esq.' (Taylor had assumed the editorship of the London Magazine on the death by duel of John Scott in February 1821.) Elton begins by informing Taylor that he has 'not been able yet to manage the Batrachomyomachia to my mind'. (Elton's translation of 'The Battle of the Frogs and Mice' would appear anonymously in the issue of October 1821, as the second of a series named 'Leisure Hours'.) He has instead 'sent some chit-chat to serve as an introduction'. ('On Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice' appeared in September 1821 as the first of the series.) He intends this as 'the first of occasional desultory papers of criticism, poetry, or the like: a specimen or two of the Battle of Frogs may form the second of the series'. Changing the subject, he now declines two books Taylor has sent him to review: he feels that too much has already been said about Madame de Stael, and he has 'already administered the ferula to her somewhat roughly'. He is 'equally diffident about Bonaparte's literary character', and asks whether 'Mr Hazlitt, or Leigh Hunt' are not 'the fittest men to undertake it'. He feels that to 'enter fully' into Taylor's 'plan relative to the Monthly Literature seems to require the interchange of sentiments in conversation', and that this is 'one of the disadvantages of a periodical contributor residing in the country'. He suspects that 'a London domicile' is 'necessary for the convenient and ready arrangement and execution of this sort of monthly summary'. He has been 'thinking of some regular supply of poetry, translated or original, independent of the incidental passages in the Leisure Hours', but has not yet 'ascertained either my plan or my powers'. In the first part of a postscript, he asks 'What is Knickerbocker? [Washington Irving] & is he worth reviewing?' This appears to be a reference to a footnote to the 'Epistle to Elia' by 'OLEN', published in the August 1821 issue of the London Magazine; the footnote also discusses two readings of that poem, thanks Taylor 'for the Magazine', and ends 'It is a pity the writer who so ably reviewed Crabbe, does not continue his "Series of Living Poets.".

12mo, pp. [iii]-vi, [ii], 119, [1] advertisements; apparently bound without the half title; contemporary polished calf (rebacked), gilt border on covers, yellow endpapers. First edition: a very good copy of this uncommon book, by Charles Abraham Elton (1778-1853), who inherited a large fortune from his Bristol merchant forebears, and eventually also a baronetcy. The title poem is an unusually personal account of the deaths of his two eldest sons in a swimming accident off Weston-super-Mare in 1819: rather appropriately, he is clearly much indebted to Milton's Lycidas, which commemorates the death of Edward King, who drowned in the same sea. There is a substantial section of prose notes at the end. Binding: contemporary calf, with the bookbinder's label of J. Rees, Bristol. BBTI indicates John Rees of Bristol (who also sold Genuine Patent Medicine) as being in business 1820-30; see also Ramsden p. 137. Jackson, Annals of English verse, p. 452.

2pp, 4to. On first leaf of bifolium, the second leaf carrying the address to 'Lady Palgrave | Hampstead Green', with four postmarks, one dated 29 July 1837. In fair condition, on aged, worn and creased paper. Lady Elizabeth Palgrave was the wife of the archivist and historian Sir Francis Palgrave (1788-1861, né Cohen), and daughter of the banker, naturalist and bibliophile Dawson Turner (1775-1858) of Yarmouth. Their son Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897), remembered for his anthology 'The Golden Treasury', was a friend of Tennyson, and the writer of this letter was the mother of Tennyson's friend Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833), subject of perhaps his finest poem, 'In Memorian'. A contemporary pencil note states that the letter relates to Julia Hallam's son Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam (1824-1850), who was at Eton in 1837. Considering that as Henry Hallam's entry in the Oxford DNB states he and Julia 'had eleven children, but only four of their progeny reached adulthood and only one outlived Hallam himself', Julia Hallam writes with understandable anxiety; 'My dear Friends will rejoice with us that we found our darling Boy better thank God it has been a slight attack, proceeding apparently from accidental derangement indigestion - & we hope either to take him back with us tomorrow or if the medical man thinks this too soon, that he will go up in a chaise with another boy, whom he knows, to town on Monday - & there Boosey [i.e. a servant of the Elton family] will receive him & take him on.' She does not regret that they came to Eton, 'as the motion saved my poor nervous husband a day's misery - & was one both rewarded & cheered by finding the dear child better than we expected'. She concludes warmly: 'Pray write to me, my dear kind friend, wherever you go - & God bless & prosper you & your's the sight of you was very soothing to me.' In a postscript she expresses her wish that 'you could all be comforted with this good news at Sevenoaks!', adding that she hopes Lady Palgrave 'will make out my Scrawl', and ending the postscript: 'Your parasol was put into our carriage by mistake. I will endeavour to send it to the Chapter House'.