Autograph letter signed : London, to John Wilson Croker, [1813 Sept. 21].

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Autograph letter signed : London, to John Wilson Croker, [1813 Sept. 21].

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Informing him that he has just had a letter from Scott [Sir Walter Scott] and that "its contents were not altogether unexpected, & having half-anticipated such a result, I had to give the matter its due consideration. Twenty years ago when I had a reputation to win it would have been easy for me to furnish odes upon demand on any subject. This is no longer the case. I should go to the task like a school boy, with reluctance & a sense of incapacity for executing it well; but unless I could so perform it as to give credit to the office, certain it is that the office could give none to me. But if these periodical exhibitions were dispensed with, & I were left to write upon great events, or to be silent, according as the spirit moved, I should then thankfully accept the office as a mark of honourable distinction which it would then become. I write to you, not as proposing terms to the Prince, an impropriety of which I should be fully aware, but as to a friend who has more than once shown me acts of kindness which I had no reason to expect & by whose advice I would be guided;" asking if he could call on him at the Admiralty on Monday.

1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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