My dear Sir,—Many, many thanks for your kindness, and
pray express my grateful acknowledgments to Mr.
Merivale for his very elegant present. I make ![]()
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no doubt that it
will fulfill (sic) your promise—that I shall read it with my first
feelings—and that it will bring back to my mind that delicious evening
(an evening in July) when I first discovered the ‘Minstrel’1
among some loose pamphlets in my father’s library. Alas! alas! Five and
thirty years have fled, and yet it seems but yesterday.
John Herman Merivale (1779-1844)
English poet and translator, friend of Francis Hodgson, author of
Orlando in Ronscevalles: a Poem (1814). He married Louisa Drury, daughter of the
headmaster at Harrow, and wrote for the
Monthly Review while
pursuing a career in the law.
