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19th Century Literature. A group of 8 letters, poems and other correspondence: 1. Wright (William Aldis, 1831-1914). Autograph letter to E.L. Lushington concerning the first publication of Edward Fitzgerald's correspondence, Trinity College, 11 November 1889, 3 pp., 'The passage in Fitzgerald's letter which perplexes you stands exactly as he wrote it and the quotation is due not to any printers' devilment but to the fact that he was, as he often said himself a legitimate decendant of the Ballyblunder family. The lines of Keats which I had asked him about occur in the early part of Endymion and are an example of what is perfectly intelligible in meaning had so carelessly expressed as to be impossible to answer. They stand thus: Even as the trees That whisper round a temple become soon Dear as the temple's self, so does the moon, The passion poesy, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light... I feel nearly certain that there is another passage in which Keats has an expression very nearly resembling that in the first and second lines though I cannot at the moment find it, and it was of this probably that Fitzgerald was thinking when he quoted what was still more familiar to him. If the Letters should reach a second edition I will take care that a footnote shall clear up the obscurity...', folds, 8vo, with original mailed envelope and 1889 postmark 2. Procter (Bryan Waller, i.e. 'Barry Cornwall', 1787-1874). Manuscript poem to unknown recipient, 32 Weymouth St., Portland Place, London, 17 June, 1869, 8 lines, 'Sleep on! The world is vain; All grief and pain; If there be a dream of joy; It comes in slumber, pretty boy!...', signed 'B. Cornwall', 12mo, tipped onto remains of album sheet with contemporary annotations beneath 3. Milligan (James, 1822-1908). Offprint from the Carlisle Journal, December 16, 1853, with manuscript note beneath to J. Wright, solicitor, January 20, 1854, stating that if he approves of his poems 'the author will be glad to supply any number of sets he may please to order', single sheet, 8vo 4. Grant (Anne, 1755-1838). Autograph letter to an unknown recipient, Edinburgh?, circa 1820, 'these cold North winds have blown a fat[?] Turkey to me from the Highlands of which I wish you to share pray come & join a little social party on Thursday evening...', folds, slight toning, laid down on album leaf, 12mo, together with four others: An anonymous manuscript poem 'The Exile' circa 1830, 3 pp., 20 four line quatrains, bemoaning the author's fate being posted to a desert station in Africa, 'Again the sun sinks in the grave, again the night rolls from the east...', partly excised, old folds and stains, 4to; an autograph letter from architect George Stanley Repton (1786-1858) to architectural draughtsman John Preston Neale (1780-1847) recommending that he visits a house in Devon that he is altering 'in the same character of architecture as Cobham...', 2 pp., with a pencil sketch of an archway at head, folds and paper clip rust mark, 8vo; an autograph letter from Henry Ellis (1777-1869), principal librarian at the British Museum, to publisher John Bowyer Nichols, 29 February, 1840, thanking him for putting him in touch with Mrs Surtees, wife of writer John Surtees for a copy of her late husband's Memoirs and 'Sir Walter Scott I see makes mention of me slightly in one of his Letters relating to Sir Ralph Sadlers Memoirs...', single page with integral blank leaf, 4to; a manuscript receipt from engraver William Finden (1787-1852), dated 1 September 1824, 'Receivd of Messrs. Hurst & Co. 7 as 6 Prints Piper. 2.French Proofs do, Wilkie for Mr Raddon of Sidmouth', fold mark (Qty: 8) William Aldis Wright, edited Edward Fitzgerald's Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald 1889 responding to E.L. Lushington's query about a passage and declaring it had been printed as Fitzgerald had written it and continues with references to part of Keats' poem 'Endymion'; Bryan Waller Procter used the pseudonym 'Barr