Item 160 - Letter from Dawson Turner

3 pp.

Thanks WW for his present. 'I am persuaded that you will be gratified to hear - that your volumes have been my constant companions'. DT grew up on such compositions: 'The whole of the contents of your smaller volume are, with very few exceptions indeed, familiar to me in the original, and sufficiently so to enable me to appreciate the fidelity of the versions. Here too the notes give quite additional value ['Verse Translations from the German, including Lenore, Schiller's Song of the Bell', 1847]. In the larger volume I am less at home; its principal piece, Goethe's Herman and Dorothea, I never read before' [WW, 'Goethe's Herman and Dorothea', Fraser's Magazine, 1850].