ALS : Margate, to John Taylor, [1821 June 8].

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ALS : Margate, to John Taylor, [1821 June 8].

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A letter to the editor of the London Magazine, declining to write an article about Midsummer because he is ignorant of the subject and because of a review of Hazlitt's Table talk which he is writing; and making a change in the quote from Wordsworth in his current "Elia" essay, "Mackery End in Hertfordshire."

1 item (1 p.) in case ; 34 cm. + portrait.

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