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Mr. Roscoe was greatly pleased with your translations and I should 

 be glad to hear that he had written to you on this subject. I believe 

 he did not think himself at liberty to ' deviate from the original in the 

 arrangement of his Rhymes.' 



I should have written by Mr. Bainbridge the last time he was here 

 had I known his stay would be so short and now I have but little time 

 and can barely thank you for the two sonnets he brought me. That 

 by Angelo I suppose you allow is highly poetical and that of Carlo 

 Maria Maggi is finely moral ; but I do not see the propriety of the 

 epithet ' vain ' as applied to life, it does not suit our opinion that this 

 life is a school of education. Fearing to miss the opportunity I must 

 beg you to accept the thanks and good wishes of }ours, 



M. N." 

 Two letters from Felicia are missing, but two of 

 Mrs. Browne's help to fill up the period and to illustrate 



the financial aspect of juvenile poetry. 

 "My Dear Sir, — 



When Felicia had the pleasure of giving you a few hasty lines by 

 Mr. Hobson, she promised you the copy of a poem she was then 

 beginning and I have now an opportunity of sending it. ('Domestic 

 Affections'). She has been much troubled with an ugly cough and a 

 pain in her side lately, which has given her friends a little anxiety ; 

 but a blister, and taking the Iceland ]Moss have been of great service, 

 and our good and dear friend Miss Foulkes came for her last week, to 

 breathe the pure air of Eriviatt, from which, under Providence, I am 

 sure she will derive ever}' advantage. I promised her, before she left 

 me, that I would copy this poem for you. When you have read it, if 

 you approve, it would be doing her a favor to show it to Mr. Roscoe, 

 and if he thinks it deserving public notice, it would be an act of great 

 kindness to Felicia and me, if he would interest himself to dispose of 

 the copy-right. I should think ' War and Peace ' with some uf her 

 best smaller pieces might be worth the attention of Cadell and Davies 

 or some other eminent liookseller, to be printed without her name. I 

 am very fearful of asking such a favor of Mr. Roscoe, but I am 

 quite a novice in such a business, and though I am convinced 

 her genius must, in time, shine forth and overcome every illiberal 

 attempt to keep it down, yet my circumstances are such, at this 

 freseitt tune, that they make Felicia very desirous to counteract 

 their depressing weight, by employing the talents she has been 

 endowed with, for the good of her family. She is surrounded 

 by admiring friends, to none of whom I can open my mind as 

 to pecuniary matters, and as I know Mr. Roscoe's philanthropy to be 

 great, I think he may be induced, through your representation, to 

 assist Genius in its laudable wishes. I cannot think Cadell and 

 Davies liave behaved with the least liberality, or made the least 



