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m Langland, of Piers Plowman and the Malvern Hills. The first paper went to the editor last week, and I have heard nothing as to whether it will appear on Saturday or not, and perhaps if it does you won't care to have it sent to you. Tell me if you do or don't. I have suffered unpleasantly in the heart lately from this tyrannous dynasty of east winds, but have been well otherwise, and am better, in _that_. Flushie means to bark the next time he sees you in revenge for what you say of him. Good bye, dear Mr. Boyd; think of me as Your ever affectionate E.B.B. _To H.S. Boyd_ June 3, 1842. My very dear Friend,--I disobeyed you in not simply letting you know of the publication of my 'English Poets,' because I did not know myself when the publication was to take place, and I hope you will forgive the innocent crime and accept the first number going to you with this note. I warn you that there will be two numbers more at _least_. Therefore do not prepare yourself for perhaps the impossible magnanimity of reading them through. And now I am fit for rivalship with your clocks, papa having given me an Aeolian harp for the purpose. Do you know the music of an Aeolian harp, and that nothing below the spherical harmonies is so sweet and soft and mournfully wild? The amusing part of it is (after the poetical) that Flushie is jealous and thinks it is alive, and takes it as very hard that I should say 'beautiful' to anything except his ears! Arabel talks of going to see you; but if you are sensible to this intense and most overcoming heat, you will pardon her staying away for the present. We have heard to-day that Annie proposes to publish her Miscellany by subscription; and although I know it to be the only way, compatible with publication at all, to avoid a pecuniary loss, yet the custom is so entirely abandoned except in the case of persons of a lower condition of life than _your daughter_, that I am sorry to think of the observations it may excite. The whole scheme has appeared to me from the beginning _most foolish_, and if you knew what I know of the state and fortune of our ephemeral literature, you would use what influence you have with her to induce her to condemn her 'contributions' to the adorning of a private annual rather than the purpose in unhappy question. I wish I dared to appeal through my true love for her to her own good sense once more. My very dear friend's affectionate and grateful E.B.B.
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