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Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell to Cyrus Redding, [25 December 1832]
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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 11
Chapter 12
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Xmas, —— St. Leonards.
“My dear Sir,

“In consequence of what you say, print the verses. I hardly know what title they should have. Perhaps, after all, the one I have given will
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do—but pray let me have a proof. You will get the letter, Monday, to-morrow morning, and by to-night’s mail I can have a packet Tuesday morning, and I could send it back by the coach of that day, so that we have time.

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“I am almost at my last pound, for that poor, blustering creature has sent me not a farthing of my arrears, but I have enclosed two pounds which I shall be singularly obliged to you to see given to the object for whom they are meant, for the person who has written to me about her distress is a man unknown to me, so that I do not choose to trust him. The unfortunate creature to whom I crave your kindness to take these two sovereigns, is a Mrs. G——, at No. 5, —— Street. I never had one feeling of interest in that hapless woman, but a perception of something in her nature and character ill-fitted for the wretched life which she leads, from which I have made many endeavours to snatch her, and shall not cease to make them. But I shall be obliged to her to tell me if the child which she has with her be the same about whom I interested M——, in hopes that he might get her into a place at the Opera House.”