HENRY KIRKE WHITE. 



and I have considerable hopes that, as I do not enter 

 into the University with any sinister or interested views, 

 but sincerely desire to perform the duties of an affec- 

 tionate and vigilant pastor, and become more useful to 

 mankind, I therefore have hopes, I say, that I shall 

 find means of support in the University. If I do 

 not, I shall certainly act in pursuance of your recommen- 

 dations, and shall, without hesitation, avail myself of 

 your offers of service, and of your directions. 



" In a short time this will be determined ; and when 

 it is, I shall take the liberty of writing to you at Kes- 

 wick, to make you acquainted with the result. 



" I have only one objection to publishing by subscrip- 

 tion, and I confess it has weight with me ; — it is, that 

 in this step I shall seem to be acting upon the advice so 

 unfeelingly and contumeliously given by the Monthly 

 Keviewers, who say what is equal to this — that had I 

 gotten a subscription for my poems before their merit 

 was known, I might have succeeded ; provided, it seems, 

 I had made a particular statement of my case ; like a 

 beggar who stands with his hat in one hand, and a full 

 account of his cruel treatment on the coast of Barbary in 

 the other, and so gives you his penny sheet for your 

 sixpence, by way of half- purchase, half-charity. 



" I have materials for another volume, but they were 

 written principally while Clifton Grove was inthe press, 

 or soon after, and do not now at all satisfy me. Indeed, 

 of late, I have been obliged to desist, almost entirely, 

 from converse with the dames of Helicon. The drud- 

 gery of an attorney's office, and the necessity of prepar- 

 ing myself, in case I should succeed in getting to col- 

 lege, in what little leisure I could boast, left no room for 

 the flights of the imagination." 



In another letter he speaks, in still stronger terms, of 

 what he had suffered from the unfeeling and iniquitous 

 criticism. 



" The unfavourable review (in the Monthly) of my 

 unhappy work has cut deeper than you could have 

 thought ; not in a literary point of view, but as it affects 



