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Newport, I[sle] of W[ight]. - Sends passage from Coleridge's Table Talk; hopes Milnes has talked at length with C. Cowden Clarke, who knows more of Keats' early life than anyone. Severn's devotion to Keats in his last days. Transcribes passage from Table Talk Vol. 2 p. 89 on Coleridge's meeting Keats and predicting his death; Coleridge's unnamed companion on that occasion was Leigh Hunt; doubts about the alleged prediction as Keats was in perfect health at the time. The Examiner of c. 1815 introduces three would-be poets, Shelley, Keats, and himself; Reynolds has done very little but Keats' Muse will take care of him.

13 North Crescent, Bedford Sq. - Thanks for admission card to Lord Northampton's soirées; delighted to hear of progress with Keats biography; hopes to meet.

13 North Crescent, Bedford Sq. - Hopes to meet Milnes in Town; requests return of MS paraphrase of Juvenal, will not pursue the project as publishers are timid; hopes Keats will be an 'Easter Offering' and that readers will take up many copies.

Newport, Isle of Wight. - Milnes' silence; if Keats biography is proving too great a task for Milnes, Reynolds will attempt a memoir himself, though 'the desire of my heart is that his memory & Genius should be done justice to - & that you (with your ample means) should do it'. Asks Milnes to send back his own 'little nonsense'.

Newport, Isle of Wight. - requests word on Milnes' progress with Keats biography.

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Newport, Isle of Wight. - Disappointed by Milnes' amateur dramatics: a proper masque would be preferable to a Jerrold farce, particularly at Woburn. Asks if there is to be a review of Milnes' Keats in the E[dinburgh?] R[eview?]; will volunteer at once if not; greatly admires Milnes' achievement. Postscript begging a copy of Milnes' poems.

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Much obliged for the 'Bird book' ["The Bird in Song", edited by Robert Sickert"], which is a 'delightful collection'; has read Robert's poem ["The Lady's Bat"] with 'very great' pleasure, as well as the piece of Courthope's ["The Paradise of Birds"], Logan's "Cuckoo". Feels that 'Keats's unrhymed sonnet' is an omission; agrees that the letter to [John Hamilton] Reynolds is a 'charming effusion"; brief discussion of Keats. They have [E. V. Lucas and C. L. Graves's] "Signs of the Times" and have read it aloud; it is 'capital fun'. Likes to think of Bessie's sister being with her, and that Caroline is coming to visit. His recent work on the last two chapters of his book ["The American Revolution"] has been 'like beginning a new book', but he has 'got into it now'.