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 OF A 
 
 COLLECTION OF UPWARDS OF ONE THOUSAND 
 
 AUTOGEAPH LETTERS 
 
 9 
 
 ADDRESSED BY 
 
 THOMAS MOORE 
 
 TO 
 
 MR. JAMES POWER, HIS MUSIC PUBLIS: .ER, 
 
 BETWEEK THE TEAES 1808 AND 1836, 
 
 TRANSCRIPTS FROM FIFTY-SEVEN OF WHICH ONLY (AVITH OMISSIONS) 
 HAVE BEEN PRINTED BY 
 
 THE RT. HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL 
 
 IN THE 
 
 MEMOIRS, JOURNAL, AND CORRESPONDENCE OF 
 
 THE POET; 
 
 ALSO UNPUBLISHED AND PUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT MUSIC, 
 CORRECTED PROOFS, &c. BY 
 
 MOORE, SIR JOHN STEVENSON, SIR HENRY R. BISHOP, 
 AVADE, LEIGH HUNT, NOVELLO, &c. 
 
 INCLUDING A LARGE PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL MSS. FOR THE 
 
 IRISH MELODIES, SACRED SONGS, NATIONAL MELODIES, 
 
 EVENINGS IN GREECE, THE SUMMER FETE, LEGENDARY BALLADS, 
 
 AND UNFINISHED WORKS, 
 
 WITH ILLUSTRATIVE DRAWINGS AND PORTRAITS, 
 
 BY SHERLOCK, ROBERTSON, FOSTER, MACLISE, 
 
 BROOKE, WESTALL, &c. 
 
 SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN ENGRAVED FROM, 
 
 THE RARE MEDAL OF GRATTAN BY GALLE, ENGRAVINGS, 
 
 AND OTHER VALUABLE PROPERTY, 
 
 HAVING INTERESTING RELATION TO THE LIFE AND PURSUITS OF MR. MOORE 
 
 W^\)\t\) lutll I)« SotlJ by Httctioii, 
 BY MESSRS. 
 
 PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, 
 
 AUCTIONEERS OF LITKRAEIY PROPERTY, 
 
 AT THEIR GREAT ROOM, 191, PICCADILLY, 
 
 ON THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1853, AND FOLLOWING DAY, 
 AT ONE o'clock MOST PUNCTUALLY. 
 
 MAY BE VILWED Tllli DAV BEFORE J HE SAI.f, AND CATALOCLES HAD. 
 
CONDITIONS OP SALE. 
 
 I. The highest Bidder to be the Buyer; and if any dispute arise 
 between two or more Bidders, the Lot so disputed to be immediately 
 put up ag'ain and resold. 
 
 II. No person to advance less than Is.; above Five Pounds, 25. 6d. 
 and so on in proportion. 
 
 III. The Purchasers to give in their names and Places of Abode, 
 and to pay down 5s. in the Pound, if required, in Part Payment of 
 the Purchase-money; in Default of which the Lot or Lots so purchased 
 shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. 
 
 IV. The Lots to be taken away at the Buyer's Expense and Bisk, 
 ■with all faults and errors of description, within three days after the 
 conclusion of the Sale, and the remainder of the Purchase-money to be 
 absolutely paid on or before delivery; in default of which ^lessrs. 
 Puttick and Simpson will not hold themselves responsible, if the 
 Lots be lost, stolen, or damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will 
 be left at the sole risk of the Purchaser. 
 
 V. The Lots will be sold (as usual with Autographs and MSS.) with 
 all faults and errors of description. 
 
 VI. Upon Failure of complying with the above Conditions, the money 
 deposited in part Payment shall be forfeited; and all Lots uncleared 
 after the day of sale, shall be re-sold by public or private Sale ; 
 without further notice ; and the Deficiency (if any) arising from such 
 re-sale, shall be made good by the Defaulters at this Sale, together with 
 all charges attending the same. 
 
 This condition is without prejudice to the right of the Auctioneers to 
 enforce the contract made at this sale, without such resale, if they think 
 lit. 
 
 *^* No Lots can be delivered at the time of Sale. 
 
 Gentkmoi who cannot attend the sale, may have their CommissioJis 
 faithfully executed by their obedient Serv/ints, 
 
 PUTTICK AND SIMPSON. 
 
 Auction Booms f 07' the sale of Literary Property, 
 191, Piccadilly. 
 
 Messrs. Puttick and Simpson in addressing Executors and others 
 entrusted with the disposal of Libraries, and collections (however 
 limited or extensive.) of Manuscripts, Autograpiis, Prints, Pictures, 
 Music, Musical Instruments, objects of Art and Vertu, and Works 
 connected with Literature, and the Arts generally, would suggest a 
 sale by Auction as the readiest and surest method of obtaining their 
 full value ; and they flatter themselves that the central situation of 
 their premises, (near St. James's Church), their extensive connexion of 
 more than half a century's standing, and their prompt settlement of the 
 sale accounts in cash, are advantages that will not to be unappreciated. 
 ]\lessrs. P. & S. will also receive small parcels of Books or other J.ite- 
 rary Property, and insert them in occasional sales with property of a 
 kindred description, thus giving the same advantages to the possessor 
 of a few Lots as to the owner of a large Collection. 
 
 *jif* Libraries Catalogued, Arranged, and Valued for the Probate of 
 Legacy Duty, or for Public or Private Sale. 
 
MOORE'S AUTOGRAPH LETTERS,^ 
 
 ETC. P s nr 
 
 FIRST DAY'S SALE. 
 
 Thursday y June 23, 1853, 
 
 AT ONE o'clock MOST PUNCTUALLY. 
 
 BOOKS. OCTAVO, ETC. 
 
 1 Walker (John) Pronouncing Dictionary, ef. 1823 — Brookes' 
 
 Gazetteer, 1824— Irish State Trials, 1844 3 vols. 
 
 2 Dictionary of Musicians, 2 vols. 1824 
 
 3 Hogg (James) The Brownie of Bodsbeck, 2 vols. 1818 — ^Captaiii 
 
 Rock detected, 1824 — Burns' Poetical Works, 2 vols. 
 
 1822 
 
 4 Burder (Rev. S.) Memoirs of Pious Englishwomen, portraits, 
 
 3 vols, caff 1823 
 
 5 Johnson (Dr. S.) Works, with an Essay on his Life and Genius 
 
 by Arthur Murphy, 12 vols. 1806 
 
 6 Byron (Lord) Works, with his Letters, Journals, and Life, by 
 
 Thomas Moore, \7 yo\%.frontisp. 1840 
 
 7 Moore (Tho.) Poetical Works, 10 vols. ^;o?-^, and frontisps. 1840 
 
 8 Moore (T.) Irish Melodies, tenth edition, calf extra 1832 
 
 9 Another copy, morocco extra 1832 
 
 10 Another, eleventh edition, calf extra 1834 
 
 1 1 Moore (T.) Selections of Popular National Airs, with Accompani- 
 
 ments by Sir H. Bishop and Sir John Stevenson, vol. 1, 
 containing 4 nos. proof plates, calf extra 4to. 
 
 12 The same, calf extra 4to. 
 
 13 The same, crimson morocco 4to. 
 
 14 Record of the Private Theatre of Kilkenny, 1802-19. Venj 
 
 scarce Privatelv printed, 4to. 
 
 15 Parry (John) Selections of Welsh Melodies, the Words by Mrs. 
 
 Hemans, 2 vols. folio 
 
 621 
 
FIRST DAY S SALE. 
 
 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, 
 
 ALL OF WHICH ARE FROM 
 
 MR. MOOEE TO MR. POWER, 
 
 UNLESS OTHERWISE DESCRIBED. 
 
 " Few thing-s have flattered me more than hearing: from a countiy-woman of 
 ours tlie other day, that not long since, at a bazaar held somewhere in America 
 for the relief of the black slaves, the autog-raphs that brought the best prices 
 ■were O'Connell's, Father Mathew's, and those of my humble self." — Extract from 
 a letter ivritteii hy Thomag Moore, dated Slopertoti, Dec. 10th, 1842. 
 
 •^* Tlie Letters are all holograph, and many are signed in full, but others 
 have only the initials " T. M. ;" a few are unsigned, and one signed with a ficticious 
 name. Such of the Letters (but few in number) as have been used by Lord John 
 Russell in his Memoirs of Moore, are particularly noticed with reference to their 
 Numbers in the publication edited by his Lordship. 
 
 16 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power, 4to. 28th December, 1808. Proposal 
 
 to sell two or three Songs 
 
 17 One Letter, 4to. 13th May, 1809 
 
 " I think, indeed, between ourselves, that the next two 
 Numbers will be all that ever shall come from my pen." 
 
 The FIRST AND SECOND NUMBER OF THE IrISH MeLODIES 
 APPEARED IN 1807; THE THIRD IN 1810; AND THE FOURTH 
 
 IN November, 1811. 
 
 18 Three Letters, 4to. 20th February, 7th March, 8th May, 1810 
 
 "The Song which I wrote for Braham did not succeed at 
 all." Presentation copies of the third number of the Irish 
 Melodies to be sent to Miss Rogers, Mrs. Perry, Jeffrey, and 
 Leigh Hunt. 
 
 19 Two Letters, 4to. Jenkinstown, Kilkenny, 22ad and 3 1st August, 
 
 1810 
 Projected Poetical Miscellany. Sending another duett, &c. 
 And Mr. Power to Mr. Moore in reply, 4to. London, 6th Sep- 
 tember, 1810 
 
 20 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power, 3 Letters, 4to. 10th November, 3rd 
 
 December, 1810 
 Money arrangements " to pioneer his way through the streets 
 of London." At the Hen and Chickens, Birmingham, on his 
 way to 27, Bury Street, London. 
 
 21 One Letter (marked "Private"), 8vo. Thursday. Printed 
 
 in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 143. 
 
 22 Two Letters, 4to. and one 8vo. Monday, 22nd June, (1811 ?) 
 
 and 31st December, 1811 
 Moore's father's bill for £22. " I want to ask your advice 
 about something." " I am in town to-day to dine with Lord 
 Moira, but after to-morrow I am buried alive. I have just re- 
 ceived my freedom of Covent Garden from Mr. Harris." 
 
FIRST DAY S SALE. 5 
 
 23 Two Letters, 4 to. Tuesday and Friday 
 
 * * * 
 
 24 Two Letters, 4 to. Kegworth, 21st May, 1812 
 
 Non-arrival of a box of candles. " I know you will be 
 ready to do any tbing towards my il/innination, and certainly the 
 loss of our best candles is the most yloomij privation that could 
 happen to us." "The Piano Forte has just arrived, and you 
 shall soon have good tidings from it." 
 
 25 One Letter, folio, Wednesday, (30th May, 1812) 
 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 171, with an 
 erroneous date, as the post mark proves, of seven days, and 
 with the omission of three lines. 
 
 26 Three Letters, 4to. one franked by Lord Glenbervie, 16th July 
 
 and 13th August, 1812 
 
 *' The Quarterly gives us a great lift." 
 
 27 Two Letters, 4to. 19th and 3 1 st August, 1812 
 
 " I hope you have read Curran's beautiful panegyric on 
 Lord Moira in his speech at the late dinner. I suppose you 
 know that Lord Fingall and Lord Killeen have at the County 
 Meath meeting very warmly atoned for and explained away the 
 reflections cast upon Lord Moira at Dublin, one by a most 
 flattering resolution in praise of him." " My friends the 
 Hamiltons you see are returned from America." 
 
 28 John Moore (the Poet's Father), to Mr. Power. 4to. Dublin, 
 
 14th December, 1812 
 
 Advising his having drawn by order of his son Thomas 
 Moore, on Mr. Power for £25 at 61 days. 
 
 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power, 4to. Tuesday, on the same subject. 
 
 29 Two Letters, 4to. (one of two sides) ISI'2. Wednesday 
 
 "You shall hear from me from Lord Moira' s, whither I am 
 just setting out to walk, making in all near twelve miles." 
 
 Debt to Colonel Hamilton. 
 
 30 One Letter, 4to. Thursday, 3 o'clock 
 
 " As Mosey M'Gill says * single misfortunes never come 
 alone.' I had no sooner got over the annoyance of conversing 
 and writing upon your business with your brother than I received 
 by the Post an attorney's letter, &c." " Your brother dines 
 with us and sets off in the evening. For God sake get over 
 your diff"ereuces, if you can. I feel at this instant, (tho' the 
 woman that has thus acted is only my aunt by marriage) how 
 dreadful and disgusting a family feud is." 
 
 31 Four Letters, two 4to. and two 8vo. Donington Park, Friday. 
 
 Kegworth, Friday, the two on note paper, undated 
 
 " I write only to say that I cannot write, as I am in the 
 
6 FIRST day's sale. 
 
 iriidst of tlie bustle of this place, where we came on Tuesday 
 last with Rogers, who paid us a visit on Sunday last." " I wish 
 you joy of your injunction." "On Sunday I left Donington 
 with Rogers "and went on to Matlock, poor Bessy not being able 
 after the fatigues and ceremonies of the week to come with us. 
 From Matlock we went to Dovedale, and I was much delighted 
 with the scenery of both places, though not a little happy to get 
 away from them all and return to my own quiet home." "It 
 will most certainly be throwing away the scabbard with your 
 brother." 
 
 32 One Letter, 4 to. (two sides), Friday. Printed in Memoirs by 
 
 Lord John Russell, No. 1/6. 
 
 33 One Letter, 8vo. Thursday. Printed in Memoirs by Lord John 
 
 Russell, No. 177. " You need not send me the Examiner 
 any more" omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 34 Original autograph copy of Moore's words for "Through Erin's 
 
 Isle," "At the mid-hour of night," and " The Young ^May 
 Moon," as published in the 5th Number of the Irish 
 Melodies, with the poet's final alterations, 4to. (four sides). 
 {A charming specimen) 
 
 35 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power. 4to. (two sides), Friday, June (12) 
 
 1812 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 1/8. Nine 
 lines after the signature omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 36 One Letter, 4to. Thursday night 
 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 179. 
 
 37 One Letter, 4to. Wednesday (August 13, 1812) 
 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 187. His 
 Lordship has appended a note upon the alterations in the 
 second verse as made in this Manuscript. 
 
 38 One Letter, Svo. (with inclosure), no date 
 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 188. Five 
 lines at top omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 39 One Letter, 4to. Wednesday (October 1st, 1812) 
 
 Printed inMem^oirs by Lord John Russell, No. 196. 
 
 40 One Letter, 4to. (two sides), Tuesday 
 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 199. Four 
 lines after the signature omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 41 One Letter, 4to. (November 12, 1812) 
 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 204. 
 
 42 One Letter, 4to. (two sides), Langley Priory, Thursday 
 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 206, and by 
 his Lordship dated November 18, 1812. This bears in Mr. 
 Power's writing in pencil, "Dec. 18, 1813." And Lord John 
 Russell has omitted the following passage, " Lord Tamworth 
 came here yesterday, and we had a desperate drinking bout of 
 it," with two more lines after the signature. 
 
FIRST day's sale. 7 
 
 43 One Letter, 4 to. (three sides), Tuesday. 
 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 207 
 
 44 One Letter, 4 to. franked by Lord Glcnbervie (December 4th, 
 
 1812). 
 Printed in INIemoirs by Lord John Husstll, No. 211. 
 
 45 One Letter, 4to. (two sides), Kegworth 
 
 Printed in JMemoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 212. 
 
 4G One Letter, 4 to. (two sides), Sunday, (Dec. 21st, 1812) 
 
 Printed in Memoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 213, but 
 ■without the " above" M)isical Notations of Moore to his words 
 " When the calm sun, at close of day," and the " Merrily oh ! 
 Merrily oh ! " to a Tyrolese air, with the memo. "As I first 
 had it — but in the slow part it may be left as Stevenson altered 
 it." 
 
 47 Four Letters, 4to. (one of two sides), 1st, 9th, 23rd, and 
 
 January, 1813 
 
 " Many happy new years to you, and may each succeeding 
 one give only more strength to our alliance, and more bright- 
 ness to our prospects!" Mentions his "flute playing friend the 
 parson." — " I find my Father wants a little more of me, till after 
 he has disposed of his house, which he hopes to do to advan- 
 tage." 
 
 48 Five Letters, 4to. (3 of two sides), 12th, L^th, l/th, 25th, and 
 
 - " ■ January, 1813 
 
 Relate chiefly to matters of account between Mr. Power and 
 his brother. One contains three verses for a song " To thee, 
 my Lute." " I am doing words to the Rose-tree. I hope you 
 have not engraved ' Oh had I a bright Uttle Isle,' as I must put 
 a totally new set of words to it." " JNIy aunt's business is a sad 
 blow (together with your brother's) to me Do not you trouble 
 yourself about me, however, as I shall be able to disentangle 
 myself without laying hold of your skirts tkis time. I have, 
 you may be assured, no other old money transactions in such 
 diabolical hands as hers." 
 
 49 Stamped receipt for .£500 in Mr. Moore's autograph, folio, 
 
 6th March, 1813 
 This receipt was given to Mr. James Power for an annual 
 payment according to deed of 181 1, for the copyright of the 
 5th number of the Irish Melodies, and the following songs, of 
 which manuscript copies of these marked wuth a * are inclosed, 
 some in the poet's writing, to which are prefixed * * 
 
 * * " Oh see those Cherries." A Ballad 
 
 " Oh fair ! oh purest." A Sacred Song. 
 ** " Joys that pass away." A Duett 
 
 " Oh forget that you ever were mine." A Ballad 
 
 * "A Finland Song for three voices" 
 
 * * «' Oh remember the time." A Song 
 
 * " The Tyrolese Song of Liberty." 
 
 " From life without freedom-" A Song 
 and " The Song of War." 
 
8 FIRST day's sale. 
 
 50 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power, 4to. (two sides), 11th March, 1813 
 
 A very interesting letter upon a variety of subjects. " Those 
 two amiable persons your brother and my annt." " How 
 unjust I was to feel any chill from a letter which contained such 
 a proof of your unabated anxiety and interest about me — but it 
 was all hippishness." " The Vignette I think very pretty, and 
 very well engraved." " Have you any objection to my substi- 
 tuting something better for ' One bumper at parting ? ' Bessy 
 is keeping herself up for Patrick's Day, which was the day her 
 own original calculations brought her to — only an old maid 
 set her astray, who could, ofcowse, know nothing of the matter. 
 If he comes on the l/th he must certainly be called Pat." 
 
 51 Four Letters, 4 to. 3rd, 8th, 10th, and 30th April, 1813 
 
 " I am trying again to enrich the number by attempting good 
 words to ' Savournen Deelish.' " " I think the Wood-pecker a 
 very poor thing, indeed, but it seems to take wonderfully, — I wish 
 I could write such popular things for you my dear Sir — with all 
 my heart I wish it and I mnsi try— perhaps I may succeed." 
 *' Direct to me, Oakhanger Hall, Sandbach, Cheshire." 
 " Bessy said laughingly the other night, that your brother 
 would come down on me for ' Down, Derry, Down,' in the Post 
 Bag — but though this of course was nonsense, yet it set me 
 thinking seriously how I am to manage about my poem, which 
 will be full of songs, and the words of which I must not, at 
 least I ought not sell to any one else. What's to be done about 
 this? I wish you and I had our Shop and the whole difficulty 
 would be removed." " Cowan has just arrived without Sir 
 John, which is a great mortification to us all, but he swears as 
 soon as the Cathedral visitation is over, he will come." 
 
 52 Three Letters, 4to. (one of two sides), 8th, 17th, and 22nd 
 
 June, 1813 
 
 " We shall not for a few days longer, be able to sleep in our 
 cottage, so that I am still kept from business, except what my 
 sauntering meditations about the fields produce. I think vour 
 idea about my having a dramatic piece in view, while I am em- 
 ployed about my poem (founded upon the story of the Poem, 
 retaining the songs connected with it, and prepared so as to 
 appear soon after it) is a very excelleut thought, and I shall 
 certainly act upon it." "With respect to the time for the 
 Songs you have mentioned, it may be 
 
 Oh ! doubt me wot — with feeling and cheerfulness. 
 One bumper at parting — w///; animation. 
 The valley lay smiling — in moderate time, (or, I should 
 prefer) — ' according to the feeling of each verse. 
 I do not know the original name of ' the Rose Tree.' " 
 
 53 Four Lettei-s, three 4 to. one Svo. and amended Advertisement 
 
 and Erratum to the fifth Number of the Irish Melodies 
 
FIRST DAY S SALE. 9 
 
 (two sides), see Lot 65, 14tli August, 13tli, 18th, 25tli, 
 and 27th September, 1813 
 
 " I have written your brother a simple and true state- 
 ment of our motives in announcinp; the close of the Irish 
 Melodies, and have told him that the suggestion came 
 entirely from me. I also expressed what I felt at his ex- 
 traordinary charge of my having entered into a conspiracy 
 with you against him." — " I have done the new words to 
 Young Jessica, and have made, I think, a pretty duett of it." 
 "I am getting on much better than ever with my poem." 
 *' Is there any chance of your concluding a bargain with 
 Bunting soon ? His airs would be a great treasure to us." 
 " I am but just returned home, for Sir C. Hastings (Lord 
 Moira's cousin) laid hold of us at Douington, and carried us off 
 to his place." " I think it will be prudent to remain here till 
 by the finishing of my Poem I am enabled to clear oflF all old 
 debts, and start free with you in a literary partnership which is 
 the main and chief object I look to for both our interests." 
 "My Bermuda business is turning in nothing at all." "We 
 have walked all the way to-day, Hornsey, Ilighgate, and home, 
 and I am a little tired." "I had just written out the Preface 
 (which I have been these two days cutting down, altering, and 
 re-touching) when I perceived something in it, which I thought 
 still required correction." 
 
 54 Three Letters, two 4to., one 8vo., 6th, 9th, and 1 2th October, 
 
 1813 
 
 " I think either of the titles you have sent will do, therefore 
 chuse the one you think most attractive. If I should say 
 either, it is the one 'Oh remember the time,' as I do not much 
 like ' celebrated' — it is a little too puffing, but chuse which you 
 like. As to the title of the songs, it would perhaps be better 
 * A Collection of the Vocal Music of Thomas Moore, Esq.' " 
 * ' If you have not received a Memorandum from Carpenter 
 about my cocked hat, and should get this in time on Wednes- 
 day, send it by the evening's coach." 
 
 55 Preface to Collection of Vocal Music by Thomas Moore, in 
 
 the Poet's autograph, 4to. (four sides) 
 
 56 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power, Three Letters, 4to. (two of three 
 
 sides), 1st, 10th, and 23rd November, 1813 
 
 " Shall you have any objection to defer printing, ' Oh fair ! 
 oh purest !' till the Poem comes out ? as I could introduce it, 
 and that will give it more effect. I am getting on famously. 
 I have seen the Monthly Review of the INIelodics, it is a 
 great thing in our favour — only that it makes me nervous about 
 the goodness of the numbers that are coming. I am told the 
 celebrated Madame de Stael is one of the most industrious 
 puffers of the Melodies. I saw them blazoned out in a Jamaica 
 paper the other day, ' A few copies of the Irish Melodies just 
 arrived.' " "I have now shut up for the winter, and have had 
 
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10 FIRST day's sale. 
 
 the courage not to return any one of the dinners that were 
 made for us on our coming into the neighbourhood. We now 
 go no where, but to a very pleasant family within a mile of us, 
 and I fear the winter will block us up even from this communi- 
 cation. I like your idea of keeping ' Oh fair, oh purest !' for 
 a set of sacred songs exceedingly , and the possibility of making 
 such a work very interesting between Stevenson and me, struck 
 me so much that I set to and wrote the following words for it, 
 which I am sure you will like." Here follow three verses, with 
 momentary corrections of " This world is all a fleeting show." 
 " I like these as well as anything I have written — but do not 
 give them to Stevenson yet, as 1 mean first to try them myself" 
 " But the delicate situation in which I am placed between you, 
 and the danger I fear there is lest the world should suspect I 
 stood quietly by, taking advantage of the dissention of two 
 Irothers, and leaning to the side that is most for my interest ; 
 this fear it is that haunts me, and makes me anxious to tell you 
 what I have all along felt and thought upon the subject." * 
 * * " However our bond may secure us in the eye 
 
 of the law, I would sooner throw it into the fire and myself 
 after it than produce it against that letter which your brother 
 returned to me." " I need only mention that when I asked 
 my friend Rogers's advice about it, he declared against it — not 
 on account of any unfairness there appeared to him in it (for 
 he did not know all the circumstances), but from the idea of a 
 man of business that two names to a deed were better than 
 one." " I have hardly made this legible, as I have been run- 
 ning after every coach in expectation of Stevenson— at last I 
 saw his name in the Guard's list, witlr ' Failed' opposite to it. 
 Failed indeed ! Tell him he may stay where he is. We had 
 a blazing fire in his bed-room, and our best breakfast on the 
 table for him — but he shall meet a cold reception whenever he 
 chuses to come after this. I did not mean to make this a long 
 letter." 
 .57 Two Letters, 4to. 4th and 16th December, 1813 
 
 With reference to Advertisement in Mr. Power's Autograph 
 corrected by Mr. Moore, inclosed, the latter says — " You will 
 perceive it is your own, with a very few alterations, I could not 
 improve upon it ; and I think as Bonaparte has beaten his 
 antagonists into heroes, I shall write you into an author." 
 " The Melodrama is not Lord Byron's, but you see he has 
 another Poem in the Turkish style coming out. I wish I could 
 write so fast." " I shall have paid within this short time Col. 
 Hamilton, my aunt, Mrs. Pencaud, besides that cursed ^6 100 to 
 your brother, and the Poem will pay off all my other old debts ; 
 so that I shall start free and unencumbered when our partner- 
 ship begins. A long Peace (which I think we may expect) will 
 make sunshine weather, I hope, for our undertaking." " The 
 Song tiiat I wrote for Braham and intended for you has brought 
 me into an unpleasant scrape." 
 
FIRST day's sale. 11 
 
 58 Two Letters, 4to. Monday (1813) 
 
 " I inclose you the Preface for the Songs. I have taken a 
 good deal of pauis with it." " Did you see the mention of my 
 name the other day in the Morning Chronicle, in nn Essay ou 
 the Drama, calling upon me, Byron, Scott, Campbell, &c. to 
 turn our talents fairly to the stage, and so, by the blessing of 
 God, I will, as soon as my present stumbling block is removed." 
 
 59 Five Letters, four 4to. (one two sides), one 8vo. Tuesday morn- 
 
 ing. Tuesday (1813) 
 
 *' This morning, five minutes before six, Bessy produced 
 another little girl, about the size of a twopenny wax doll." 
 " Pray have it in the newspapers for me, ' At Kegworth, 
 Leicestershire, the Lady of Thomas Moore, Esq., of a daugh- 
 ter.' " " I have at last had my interview with Lord Moira, 
 and now my mind's at ease. I have not much time to write at 
 present, but the following is in brief what passed between us." 
 (a very interesting letter.) " I had got on pretty far and pretty 
 successfully in a Song (on the prospect of going to India, as I 
 told you) for Savournen Deelish — but I am now quite sick of 
 the subject, and shall try some other." Wishes for a copy of 
 the suppressed Preface to the Irish Melodies. " I returned 
 yesterday from Wales, and I think you will not be sorry to 
 hear that I have given up that speculation. Nothing could 
 induce me to go so far from every thing civilized, but exceeding 
 cheapness. I find, however, that is all a humbug in Wales, 
 and I am convinced from the price of coals and provisions there, 
 added to the tricks the Welsh play upon strangers, we should 
 find it the dearest place we could select." 
 
 «0 One letter, 4 to (two sides), Wednesday (1813) 
 
 " The little thing was christened by the Rector * Anasfasia 
 Mary.^ We had unluckily used up the name of Jane already." 
 " I am quite vexed at the disappointment and annoyance that 
 Stevenson's blunder-headedness is giving you. What's to be 
 done about the Rose tree?" " Mrs. Ready since she has heard 
 of our quitting this house, is hard at work fitting up half of 
 Oakhanger Hall for us, and insists most strenuously on our 
 making that our home. Is not this kind ? Their son-in-law, 
 the new Dean of Exeter, is to be there with his Wife duruig 
 our visit." " Only think of the Post Bag — the fifth edition 
 comes out on Saturday." 
 
 61 Four Letters, 4to. (one of two sides), Thursday morning, Thurs- 
 day, and Thursday night (1813) 
 
 " I have been applied to (with every promise of success) to 
 stand for the Librarianship of the Dubhn Society, xfc"2U0 a year, 
 coals, candles, &c. &c., but as residence in Dublin would be 
 necessary, and that would not suit our plans, I liave declined 
 it. What a pretty little addition taknig in the full use of 
 
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 library, &c. &c. such a thing -would be in London." Mrs, 
 Ready left us yesterday, and almost cried and tore her hair to 
 make us go with her to Buxton — but we were hard-hearted. 
 She is a good-natured woman with all her nonsense, for she has 
 taken great offence with me because I will not let her lend me 
 two or three hundred pounds. I am sure I do not know where 
 it is to come from if I accepted it." 
 
 62 Three Letters, 4to. (two of two sides), Friday and Friday night 
 (1813) 
 
 " Ton may guess our consternation on arriving at Sandbach, 
 within four miles of this [Oakhanger], yesterday evening when 
 we were told that poor old Ready died on Tuesday. Though 
 it was a miserable inn we were at, and the children both sick, I 
 thought it would hardly be delicate to apprize Mrs. Ready of 
 our arrival the same evening, and we remained at Sandbach 
 all night — a most miserable one it was to me ; for besides the 
 illness and screaming of the young ones, my mind was more 
 agitated and perplexed with regard to the plan I should pursue 
 than ever I remember it. I looked upon our visit here as quite 
 out of the question, and what I was to do with myself and my 
 poor companions, after giving up house, furniture, and every- 
 thing like a home, was more than I could imagine or guess — 
 indeed, my dear Sir, it was a very perplexing interval that took 
 place till (upon my writing a note to the "Widow this morning) 
 a very gay barouche with a pair of smiling servants," &c. 
 
 The allusions to Captain Ready's will and Sir John Steven- 
 son are exceedingly curious. The letter of Friday night in- 
 forms Mr. Power that Moore is " taken in for a funeral trip to 
 Gloucester, whither the corpse of the poor old Captain was 
 sent off this morning, and I and a Mr. Cowan from Dublin are 
 to set off after to-morrow." 
 
 " I have had another letter from your brother, not having 
 answered his former one — I perceive plainly now that the busi- 
 ness will come into Court, and I feel that it is necessary for my 
 own character to put my opinion of the matter at issue' between 
 \ou fairly upon record. * * # # 
 
 You have bound me indeed so warmly to your interests bv 
 your friendly assistance in the most interesting moment of my 
 life that there is nothing I would not sacrifice to shew my 
 gratitude except my opinion of what is rir/ht." " We expect 
 Lord Moira every day. You see how amply the newspapers 
 have provided for me. One of them has given me a salary of 
 four thousand a year ! My own opinion is that Lord M. will 
 not be able to do anything for me." 
 
 03 Two Letters, one 4to. the other on an irregular slip of paper, 
 Saturday, Sunday night, (1813) 
 
 Order for a copy of the Irish Melodies for Mr. Thomson of 
 Edinburgh. " 1 will give up the alterations I have made in 
 the Midnight Moon if it be of much inconvenience.^ My 
 
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 reason for altering the first line is to avoid the similarity of 
 title with ' At the mid hour of night.' You will perceive in 
 the 4th line of the same that I am not quite decided ahout the 
 name of the ' grove.' " " My squibs I should suppose will be 
 out to-morrow — they were printed at the very quick rate of a 
 sheet a week." 
 
 64 Two imperfect Letters in Mr. Moore's autograph, 4to., and on 
 
 an irregular slip of paper the second verse of '' the Legacy" 
 from the second Number of the Irish INIelodies, undated 
 Both of the letters refer to the dispute between IMr. Power 
 and his brother. On the back of one is written a draft of 
 part of a letter addressed by Mr. James Power to his brother 
 William, and the other is a draft of part of a letter for the 
 same purpose in Mr. jNIoore's Autograph in which the manner 
 he refers to himself is remarkable. 
 
 65 Three Letters, 4to. (one of three, the others of two sides), un- 
 
 dated. (1813) 
 Arrangement of Songs in the fifth Number of the Irish 
 Melodies. " Bessy wishes to have her Song 'I would mourn 
 the hopes' last in the Collection." " We hope to start from 
 Kegworth this day week. Our Sale is to be on Monday, and 
 I have great hopes I shall shirk the income tax, which I do 
 not feel the least remorse of conscience about — I am trusting 
 for everything to the sale, and have not paid a bill these two 
 months." " I have written to Stevenson most pressingly to 
 meet us at Ready's, if he does I shall be sure to settle your 
 business with him. I would really I think give up one of my 
 hundreds to him to get him fixed among us. ISIrs. Ready is 
 fitting up a nursery for us, and seems determined that we shall 
 become her inmates. I can perceive by your silence that you 
 do not hke my Post Bag. Its sale however is wonderful, and 
 I shall be very glad if we can produce a few such bad things 
 in the year, when we turn Leatherheads.'" " I am impatient 
 to say that I shall plague you no longer with your brother's 
 proposals. They are made so plausibly, that I am always 
 puzzled what to say to them. I shall now do what you have 
 advised." Long statement respecting Moore's irregularity in 
 accounts, illustrative as he says himself in his hfe of Sheridan, 
 of " That happy art in lohich the people of this country are 
 such adepts — of putting the future in pawn for the supply of 
 the present" Sends the first verse of 
 
 " From life without freedom oh ! who would not fly ?" 
 Portuguese and Spanish Airs— Sends second verse of " the Song 
 of War." Begs a cancel in " ' Thro' Erin's Isle' — to get rid 
 of one disgraceful rhyme." Wishes to consider "of a some- 
 what longer Preface ibr the Number coming from myself. It 
 has struck me that there is a little too much hoastiny in what 
 I have written, comiisg, as everybody will perceive from me, 
 though under the name of the Proprietors." See Lot 53. 
 
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 66 Three Letters, 4to. undated (1813) 
 
 " Nothing yet from Bermuda." " The reason you did not 
 get my letter till Monday, was that my little Post Girl was late 
 for the Post on Friday morning. I missed your letter on Sun- 
 day, for some how I look for one from you on that day as 
 regularly as I used to look for your company to a Sunday 
 dinner at Brompton. The people here are heginuing to visit 
 us much faster than I wish — and we are to dine out (for the 
 first time) to-morrow." Sends a verse of 
 
 " I'll think of you waking and sleeping." 
 
 " Here is a verse, my dear Sir, which I hope Stevenson will be 
 able to make something of — it will require that mixture of 
 lightness and feeling which no one knows better thau his 
 knightship — You ought to have had it by yesterday's post, but 
 1 got a sudden summons the day before to dine at the Park 
 and celebrate the Prince's Birth Day ; which you may suppose 
 I did with all due solemnity and sincerity. — The wine was 
 good and my Host was good, so I could have swallowed the 
 Toast if it had been the Devil ! !" 
 
 6 7 Three Letters, 8vo. (one of four sides). Undated (1813) 
 
 " Pray send a Melologue directed to the Hon. W. Spencer, 
 37, Bury Street, and one to Miss Douglas, Golden Square." 
 Directions respecting leaving card " at the British Hotel for 
 Mr. Jeffery." Dispute between the Messrs. Power and Moore's 
 election. " I wish you had been with us last week. Lord 
 Moira sent us a haunch of venison, some moor game, and pine 
 apples." 
 
 68 One Letter, 4to. (two sides). Tuesday 
 
 Printed in the ^Iemoirs by Lord John Russell, No. 217, 
 with all the subseauent letters to lot 89 inclusive. 
 Three lines after the signature omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 69 One Letter, Svo. (three sides). Friday 
 
 Memoirs, No 218. 
 
 Three lines omitted by Lord John Russell, who has 
 appended a note of five lines upon " a little job." 
 
 70 One Letter, 4to. (two sides). Tuesday 
 
 Memoirs, No. 222. 
 
 Four lines omitted by Lord John Russell, and inclosed 
 are Moore's original sketch for the Music with copy for publi- 
 cation, endorsed 17th Feb. 1813, and Mr. Power's notation, 
 "Published 1816." 
 
 71 One Letter, 4to. (two sides). Monday, (Feb. 9th, 1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 223. 
 
 Sixteen lines omitted by Lord John Russell. 
 
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 72 One Letter, note paper. Not dated 
 
 Memoirs, No. 224. 
 
 Eight lines omitted by Lord John Russell 
 
 73 One Letter, 4to. Thursday 
 
 Memoirs, No. 225. 
 
 74 One Letter, 4to. (two sides). March 2nd, 1813, printed in 
 
 Memoirs 23rd, dated only " Monday" 
 
 Memoirs, No. 229. 
 
 Eight lines omitted by Lord John Russell. 
 
 75 One Letter, 4to. (two sides). December 7, 1813. Printed in 
 
 Memoirs Sunday — the post mark and pencil endorsement 
 prove that the above date is correct 
 
 Memoirs, No. 230. 
 
 Three lines after the signature omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 76 One Letter, 4to. (three sides). Tuesday (1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 233. 
 
 Four lines [of considerable importance) omitted by his Lord- 
 ship. 
 
 77 One Letter, 8vo. (two sides " Turn over") undated (1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 23(5. 
 
 The thirteen lines of the " Turn over" omitted by his Lord- 
 ship. 
 
 78 One Letter, 4to. Thursday, (1813, posted 27th December) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 237. 
 
 Thirteen important lines omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 7^ One Letter, 4 to. Wednesday, (1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 238. 
 
 Seven lines at the commencement, and seven lines at the 
 conclusion omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 80 One Letter, 4to. (two sides). 1813, {Post marlc, AthSept. 1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 239. 
 
 Two lines after the signature omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 81 One Letter, 4 to. ^lon(\i^j,—\S\2,, {Post marh,2<)th April, 1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 240. 
 
 82 One Letter, 4 to. Tuesday night, (Post mark, 1st July, 1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 243. 
 
 Two lines at top omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 83 One Letter, 4to. 
 
 Memoirs, No. 244. 
 
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 84 One Letter, 4to. (two sides)— 1813 {December 18, 1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 245. 
 
 Two lines at the top omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 85 One Letter, 4to. (three sides). July 14, 1813 
 
 Memoirs, No. 246. 
 
 " At the other side," and the words of the Finland Song " I 
 saw the Moon rise clear," (two verses) omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 86 Que Letter, 8vo. (two sides and P.S. on back) Castle Donington, 
 
 Friday— (1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 256. 
 
 The P.S. of four lines omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 87 One Letter, 4to. (three sides, October 23rc?, 1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 258. 
 
 The twelve lines on the third page omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 88 One Letter, 8vo. (four sides). Monday night (1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 259. 
 
 Fifteen lines in the body of the note omitted by his Lord- 
 ship. 
 
 89 One Letter, small 4to. (two sides). (1813) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 260. 
 
 Six lines in the body of the note respecting the cancel 
 omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 90 Two Letters, 4to. 3rd and 8th January, 1814 
 
 " Have you seen the splendid compliment paid to me and the 
 Melodies in the last Number of the Edinburgh Review ? It is 
 really most magnificent, and its appearance in that work is a 
 signal triumph to me." " Lord Byron is about another poem. 
 He is one of the very few men that write quick and well too. 
 I have a strong suspicion that he will dedicate this next poem 
 to me, but say nothing till we see." " If there should be a 
 Peace I will go to France and Italy to, collect music for you, and 
 perhaps try a musical tour like Dr. Burney." 
 
 91 Two Letters, 4to. (one of two sides), 16th and 24th February, 
 
 1814 
 
 " What a scrape my friend Lord Byron has got into by his 
 acknowledgement of the verses to the young Princess ! He 
 writes me word that the Prince till now always supposed them 
 to be mine." Of " poor Twiss's book," Moore says, '' I have 
 seldom read any thing that made mc sadder than both its mirth 
 and its melancholy." " I wish the Satirist had more circula- 
 tion than it has; for they have just done for mc what I could 
 not in delicacy do for myself, that is, pubhshcd a pretty nearly 
 true statement of my transaction with Lord Moira." •' I sup- 
 
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 pose you have seen llunt's honourable mention of me nnJ the 
 Melodies in his 'Feast of the Poets.'" " I have had some 
 letters from unknown persons with Airs and information of 
 Airs." 
 
 &2 Two Letters, one 4to., one 8vo., 17th and 21st March, 1814 
 
 " I send this through Lord Byron." " I am in a sad 
 quandary about my Poem ; work as I will I cannot get it ready 
 to put to press till June, and that is quite too late for the season 
 — and yet I hear of more Persian tales likely to come out, 
 which may do me very great detriment, and makes me feel 
 very unhappy at the delay." " I have been too nervous and 
 frightened about this Poem, but nothing shall ever fidget me 
 so much again, or take up so much of my time — my friend 
 Rogers making me begin it all over again so often, has 
 been the whole cause both of my nervousness and mv delay 
 with it." 
 
 93 Two Letters, 4to. 5th and 11th April, 1814 
 
 "I have at length received my dispatches from Bermuda, and 
 I know you will sympathize with my disappointment, when I 
 tell you the remittance is not Aa//' of what I was led to expect. 
 The mistake arose from Sheddon (in letter to me, announcing 
 what I was to expect) putting the word * sterling' after the sum 
 he mentioned instead of ' currency,' which you know makes all 
 the difference in the world." 
 
 94 Two Letters, one 4to. one Svo. 29th April, 6th May, 1814 
 
 " On Sunday night next I hope to eat bread and cheese and | rlr 
 drink long-untasted porter with you in the Strand. Many 
 thanks for your offer of a lodging — but I have written to be- 
 speak my former ones in Bury Street, 33." '■'■ I want a good 
 air to write a dashing Song in praise q/ Loud Wellington. 
 Our Irish hero ought not to go unsung." " Will you let me eat 
 a hasty bit with you to morrow? (a little before four, if not in- 
 convenient,) as I am going to the theatre to see Keau's Lago. 
 I had Whitbread with me for three quarters of an hour yesterday 
 about a play for Drury. Lord Byron has done'two Songs 
 already for me." 
 
 95 Two Letters, 4to. (one of three, the other of two sides), 9th and 
 
 25th June, 1814 
 
 Two curious and interesting letters. One contains the second 
 verses of " AV hen twilight dews," and " When lam dead," with 
 an alteration in the Musical Notation of the latter. " I ar- 
 rived very tired on Saturday evening, not the less so for meeting 
 with very unexpected honours from the fools of Derby, who 
 came out to meet us about a mWe from the town (on account of 
 the confirmation of Peace) with ribbons, oak leaves, &c. took 
 the horses from the mail and pulled us through the town. 
 
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 After we had dined, the same wise animals pulled us out again. 
 We were received at Ashbnrne (both places being long re- 
 markable for their fits of frenzy) with the same cavalcade and 
 triumph, and the only thing that amused me in the whole 
 business was an idea that struck me of buying a whiskered 
 mask, before we came to Derby, which I made a man in the 
 mail (who had an odd sort of black tufted travelling cap) put 
 on, and he hurraed like a Don Cossack out of the windows." 
 " The one [Melody] I send has a good many verses to it, and is 
 a subject I have long meditated. It is on the Prince s desertion 
 of Ireland, and done so as to appear like a love song, in the 
 manner of some other political ones in the Collection. I am 
 sure you will like it when you see the rest." 
 
 96 Six Letters, five 4to. (one of three and one of two sides, one 8vo. 
 of two sides), 4th, 1 1th, 15th, 1 6th, 20th, and 21st July, 
 1814 
 
 "A word from you is worth (I was going to say ten com- 
 mandments from any other quarter.)" " Unless you j)articu- 
 larly wish my attendance, I had rather be spared both the 
 vulgar laugh at my unfortunate verses, and the Old-Baibj sort 
 of language I may expect from the Attorney-General — indeed, 
 I felt as if I W'Cre gibhetted the last time." (A facetious letter). 
 Three most interesting letters respecting the dispute between 
 Messrs. James and William Power and their arrangement with 
 Moore. " I write now, under cover to Lord Byron, to tell you 
 that Kelly's book contains no less than four or five very pretty 
 Airs for our purpose, and on Friday I expect to send you one 
 of them with words." " The circumstances under which we 
 parted were such as to make me tremblingly alive to the least 
 suspicion of alteration in you. You saw^ how ready I was to give 
 up your purse, but you will never see me ready to give up 
 your friendships 
 
 ^1 Four Letters, 4to. 10th, 18th, 18th, and 29th August, 1814 
 
 " Jeffrey has written me so many pressing letters to do some- 
 thing for the Review, and Rogers and Byron have seconded 
 him so warmly, that I am obliged to give him two articles for 
 this Number — but I never will give him any more ; these things 
 will be too valuable to us to be thrown away so slightly." " I 
 write now merely to say that I have done ' Cuislah ma chree,' 
 after many trials." The letter of 18th August announces the 
 birth of" Miss Olivia Byron Moore (that is to be)." " I think 
 you will not grudge ten pence for the intelligence of Bessy's 
 safety, it would 'be worth twenty pence, if I had a boy to an- 
 nounce to you, but unluckily it is another girl." " But I will 
 drink an extraordinary glass or two to-day, and one of the ex- 
 traordinarics shall be to you and yours." " I have been wisked 
 away to the Derby Races by my friend Joe Atkinson, and the 
 
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 Worst of it is cannot get back for love or money. I am invited 
 Irom this by the Duke of Devonshire to meet the llanin^ton.s 
 with him at Chatsworth for some days — but I do not tiiink I 
 shall go. Forgive me all my sins," &c. 
 
 It was upon this occasion that Mr. Atkinson wrote the 
 following, Avc believe, unpublished epigram. 
 
 I'm sorry, dear Moore, there's a damp to your joy, 
 
 Nor think my old strain of mythology stupid, 
 M'hen 1 say that your wife had a right to a boy, 
 
 For Venus is nothing without a young Cupid. 
 But since Fate, the boon that you wished for, refuses, 
 
 And granted three girls to your happy embraces, 
 lie meant, when you wandered abroad with the jMuses, 
 
 That your wife should be circled at home by the Graces. 
 
 98 Mr. Moore to Sir John Stevenson and Mr. Power, 2 letters 4 to. 
 
 (one of two sides), 10th and I3th September, 1814. 
 
 " I have just received a scatter brained letter from him to say 
 that he means to start on Tuesday morning for Gloucester, 
 which is in an entirely opposite direction to us. Now what I 
 entreat of you is, that the moment you get my letter, you will 
 proceed to seize this wild frolicksome youth — put him into one 
 of the coaches that leave London for Manchester at two o'clock, 
 and if possible put yourself in with him," " I shall have Paddy 
 O'Rafterty ready for Stevenson to arrange, and shall make him 
 do the Sacred Songs." " I depend upon your sending Stevenson 
 to me." 
 
 99 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power, six letters, five 4to. (one of three, and 
 
 one of two sides) one 8vo , Cth, 7th, 10th, 21st, 24th, 
 28th, and 2sth November, 1814. 
 
 A Piano Forte " for Mr. Arkwright (the son, you know, of 
 the great Cotton Man, who lives in Ashbourne.)" Correction of 
 verse in the Song of " Dear Harp of my Country." " Obliged 
 to give a diiuier." " One fine and dashing dish enables one to 
 be as homely as one pleases in the rest of the dinner, and if 
 Turtle soup be not too extravagant, I should like to have a little 
 d'jwn, enough for six persons," — limits the price to a guinea. — 
 A long and interesting letter. " I wish I had sent oae of my 
 two eldest young ladies over with you to Ireland, for I find the 
 addition of one more in the house makes an incredible difference 
 in point of noise, and I hear every thing in this small cabin so 
 plainly, that really 1 am very seriously disturbed by them, and 
 shall, I fear, be many ideas out of pocket by their riotousness." 
 Criticism on the illustration to Moores Song of my ^yellington^s 
 name. " I hope the Turtle soup is comeataHe, as I am rather 
 depending on it." The first number of the Sacred Songs, with 
 reference to the Deed. " My dinner went off illustriously, and 
 your oysters in the evening were pronounced the best ever 
 
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 cateii." " I cannot reconcile it to myself to delay one mometiE 
 my congratulations on the amicable turn your business with 
 your brother is likely to take. Heaven send it may all end as 
 cordially as I wish." " I am not at all satisfied with the state 
 of the 7th. No. We want something striking, and I must try 
 on till I find it." " I have just had a long letter from Lord 
 Byron — he is at Verona." 
 
 100 Two Letters, one 4to. one 8vo. (both three sides), 26 Dec. (note 
 
 undated) 1814. 
 
 " I have waited two or three days, and delayed the second 
 verse of Wellington in the expectation of proofs from you." 
 Sends second and third verses with corrections of " While His- 
 tory's Muse," and the third verses to "The time I've lost," and 
 "Come rest in this bosom." " These have been my employ- 
 ment since I came down — hardly a line of my Poem. I shall 
 now try the Ballads for Braham, and then take to my Sacred 
 Songs and Poem." " I have just got your letter, very sorry 
 about the Turtle. But do not mind the Cod's head, as I have 
 fish ; only send the oysters." " I have kept back ' Fill the 
 bumper' to consider of it." " I am sorry to see that you have 
 put my name in full to those foolish early songs of mine, which 
 I never authorized more to than T. M., Esq." 
 
 101 Two Letters, 4 to. (two sides), l/th January, 1814. 
 
 Memoirs, No. 265. 
 
 Six lines at top, and four lines after the signature omitted by 
 his Lordship ; " I suppose you saw that the Tyrolese Glee was 
 sung at the great dinner given to Mr. Canning in Liverpool." 
 
 102 Two Letters, 4to. (two sides), 29th January, 1814. 
 
 Memoirs, No. 71. 
 
 103 Two Letters, 4 to. (two sides), undated. 
 
 Memoirs, No. 2 
 
 104 Two Letters, 4to. (two sides), 1st August, 1814. 
 
 Memoirs, No. 292, 
 
 Eight lines at top omitted by his Lordship, 
 
 105 Two Letters, 4to. (three sides), 31st October, 1814. 
 
 Memoirs, No. 303. 
 
 106 Two Letter^ 4 to. (three sides), 12th November, 1814. 
 
 Memoirs, No. 307. 
 
 107 Four Letters, 4to. (one of four sides), 7th and 20th January, 
 
 14th and 18th February, 1815. 
 
 Sends words of " No tears are not always," 3 verses, " Love 
 and Time," 3 verses, " I love thee now," 3 verses. " I have 
 been particularly proiijic since I wrote last. In addition to the 
 above, 1 have written words (to an air I have made out from 
 
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 Beethoven) of five verses, about 48 lines. You may give one 
 of the above to Michael Kelly if you please — ' Love and Time' 
 perhaps. I shall alter either for him or Braliam any words tlicy 
 niav boggle at." " I shall leave home for Chatsworth, I tliiuk, 
 ou Monday. How do the engravings go on, and did the artist 
 succeed to your satisfaction in the sketch of the Leprechaun ?" 
 As to the Doctor's request, I have, of course, not the least ob- 
 jection — but I do not like the style of his wording. Suppose 
 we say, ' To the gentleman who favoured me with tliis air I am 
 indebted for many other old and beautiful melodies, from which, 
 &c. &c. Nothing better seems to me at present, ' scientific' is 
 not one of my words." 
 
 108 Three Letters, 4to. 3rd, 10th and 30th March, 1815 
 
 " Send it to the office to be franked for me — direct under 
 cover to Mr. Greville, War Department, Downing Street. I 
 am anxious to know whether he may be depended upon." 
 " The new setting of ' Fill the bumper' will do — but Stevenson 
 seems to have resolved upon doing it tastelessly." One of the 
 letters contains " a small alteration in the Sacred Melody" of 
 three bars. Your daughter " is flourishing most promisingly, 
 and if she gives but fair play as to time, will exchange her 
 lilies for roses before she leaves ]\Liy field." 
 
 109 Four Letters, 4to. (two of two sides), 8th, 21st, 22nd and 29th 
 
 April, 1815 
 "With reference to Mrs. Wilmot's Tragedy, Mr. Moore writes — 
 " it has been so often postponed that I do not like to send up 
 mv Epilogue till I have something more certain than her 
 announcement of it," "I should have liked very well to have 
 tauo-ht Mrs. Bartley my own method of reading the Epilogue 
 but as to loitnessing the speaking of it my nerves are as well 
 without that trial. I dare say it will go oil as flat as the Melo- 
 lo»ue." "Poor Mrs. Wilmot's Play got a complete and 
 irredeemable damnation. Lord Byron writes me word not a 
 line of ray Epilogue was either intehigibly spoken or heard. 
 And it was so much the better, for rcahy it would have 
 appeared like a satire on the poor deceased Lady. No — no — 
 vour gentle Inas will not do,' was quite a prophecy of the 
 event, I find however my Epilogue has made up lee-way, in 
 the reading^ most triumphantly." 
 
 110 Four Letters, 4to. (two of three and one of two sides), 3rd, 
 
 9th, 1 8th and 25th May, 18! 5 
 *' I fear very much I shall not be able to compass my visit 
 to town, though there are many things I want to do there, 
 besides the great use those 'annual revelations of myself (as 
 Rogers calls my visit) are invariably of to me in every way — 
 but the supplies are not forthcoming, and I fear I shall be 
 
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 obliged to ask the loan of your name for our trip to Ireland 
 where I should not like to appear ' shorn of my beams' in any 
 respect ; you can understand why, for every reason I should 
 like to put my best leg foremost in Dubhii " '^ Did you see the 
 mention of my work and the price in the Chronicle last week ? 
 How Lord Byron must curse that fellow Nathan, who is puff- 
 ing off his Jewish wares in all sorts of quackish ways. He 
 had a Puff about them the other night directly under the 
 Lottery Squibs, in the small type part of the Courier. Talk- 
 ing of the Jew — I have the second verse of ' Fall'n is thy 
 throne O Israel !' to send you." Sends the four verses of this 
 song with the notes. — Comment on his friend Dalton's con- 
 duct. — *' I hope the above is sacred enough for you. I flatter 
 myself it is both words and music, a very tolerable hit. Was 
 there ever any thing so bad as the Hebrew Melodies ? Some 
 of the words are of course good, tho' not so good as might 
 have been expected — but the Music ! ' Oh Lord God of Israel!' 
 what stuff it is ! and the price ! If the Angel in the title page 
 had/o?<?- Crowns instead of one and the odd shilling tucked 
 under his wing, it would be four times more emblematical than 
 it is." — " I have just had a proposal from Douglas Kinnaird 
 to join him and Lord Byron and Lord Essex in the Committee 
 of Management of Drury Lane. What do you say to that, 
 shall I accept it ?" " I have given up the management." 
 Sends second verse of the "Song of Miriam" — "Oh when 
 shall come that glorious day." 
 
 1 1 1 Four Letters, one folio, two 4to. (one of two sides), and one 
 
 8vo. 5th Jime, 11th, 26th and 31st July, 1815 
 
 " This expedition is bleeding me most profusely, though I 
 am not at expense for lodgings, that excellent fellow Richard 
 Power having lent me his house." "We leave Dublin on the 
 15th for the Powers and Bryans and after that goto Lord 
 Granard's." " 7, Kildare Street" — " We returned to town 
 after near a month's ramble through the County Kilkenny, 
 during which time we made visits to four different houses, and 
 you may easily suppose idleness was the order of the day with 
 me." Sends five Sacred Melodies. 
 
 112 Three Letters, 4to. (one of two sides) 1st September, 9th and 
 
 14th October, 1815 
 
 " I but last night returned from another country visit of 
 three weeks duration to my sister in Tipperary." — " I had a 
 sad journey of it — poor Bessy was taken very" ill with me at 
 Holyhead and I was obliged to forfeit the inside of the coach 
 which I had paid for to Chester. We were five days creeping 
 along, and it cost me every farthing of forty guineas before I 
 got home." " I am not only at my money's ends, but my wit's 
 cud too." 
 
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 1 1.3 Three Letters, 4to. (one of two sides) 4tli, 1 Itli, and lOth No- 
 vember, 1815 
 
 " I have dcfered sending you the enclosed from my wish to 
 have Lord Byron's answer to a proposal I made him some time 
 ago (before I left Leland) with respect to his song. I found 
 a very pretty L'ish Air to which the words went remarkably 
 well, and I told him that as I had failed in setting them my- 
 self the next gratification I should f-^el would be with your 
 leave and his, to put them in the next Number of Irish Melo- 
 dies — to this he has answered that he should infinitely prefer 
 having them ' embalmed' t as he expresses himself) in that work 
 to their being scattered abroad as a single Song. It is for you 
 now to express your opinion. 
 
 114 Seven Letters, five 4 to. one franked by Mr. Arkwright, two 
 
 8vo. (one of three sides), 2nd, 4th", 8th, 11th, 13th, 21st, 
 and 28th December, 1815 
 
 " I have not felt very well for this week past, and sometimes 
 think I have symptoms of the muscular inflammation in my side, 
 which laid me up for so long a time about nine years ago, as I 
 know I am apt to be fanciful, it may perhaps be nothing but 
 imagination. I shall, however, apply leeches if the pain coxi- 
 tinues." These letters are chiefly relative to Moore's Sacred 
 Songs. " I have not been out of my own demesne more than 
 twice these three weeks." 
 
 1 15 Four Letters, two 4to. (one of two sides), two 8vo. (one of two 
 
 sides), Sunday — the three others dated Monday, (1815) 
 " I have not time at this moment to give you half the thanks 
 you deserve for the kind and feeling account you have indulged 
 me with of your visit to my dear and excellent mother. I am 
 quite happy that she saw you, because I know what a comfort it 
 was to her — indeed they had written to me about it, before I 
 heard from you." " These two [Irish Melodies] are Savourna 
 Deelish, and Sweet Harp of ray Country, which I am so very 
 anxious about, that I wish to keep back the rest of them till the 
 very last moment." " I am never done touching and retouching 
 while the things lie by me, and nothing but a printer's devil at 
 my heels ever drives me into finishing. To be sure with copper 
 plates this is not so convenient, but you mnst be prepared for 
 this sort of proceeding, when we come to our literary operations. 
 JNIy Anacreon, Little, Post Bag, have all gone to press before 
 they were more than half finished ; and I have succeeded well 
 enough in all not to make me wish to change my method." 
 •' I should like Wellington's Song in the middle, and Sweet 
 Harp of my Country of course the last." " As soon as I have 
 got the two puzzles of the iNIelodies off my stomach I shall 
 send you the second verses of these Songs. I have not been 
 able yet to separate Stevenson's chaff from his grain in the 
 
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 immense mass of music-paper he has scribbled over." If the 
 story of the Leprechaun be authentic, keep it so — but let me 
 know whether you do by return of Post, directed to me, at 
 Chatsworth, Derbyshire, as I must mentiou it in the note on 
 the Song. I send you a Sacred thing to keep the Leprechaun 
 in countenance." "I rather fear the Cobler is too vulgar for 
 the style of my Song. I wish now we had chosen another 
 subject." — [See Crofton Crokeu's Fairy Leffends.'] 
 
 II G Three Letters, 8vo. (one of three, the other of two sides). 
 Wednesday evening, two undated, (1815) 
 
 " I like the second sketch very much — indeed 1 like both, 
 and the figure of History in the first one is particularly pretty 
 — the moment too, he has chosen, excuses the triumphant air 
 of Erin. Upon the whole, however, I think I prefer the second," 
 and seizing the most prominent feature in the Song — the 
 •words under it must be 
 
 She saw History write, 
 With a pencil of hght, 
 That illumed all the volume, her Wellington's name. 
 
 I am afraid that you will cry out at the alterations I have made 
 in ' When first I saw' — but remember they are to be put down 
 to my account." "It is very amusing to think of Byron 
 becoming a 'sweet singer of Israel,' — but you will find but 
 little of the poetry actually his." Of one of his Sacred Melodies 
 Mr. Moore writes — "You may send words and all to Steven- 
 son, as they are married indissolubly together. There will be 
 several verses to it.' *' I return the proofs [of the Irish Melo- 
 dies] I must have a revise of the Advertisement, which has 
 given me inconceivable trouble. I had a long rig-ma-role in it 
 about Wellington — in which I said that it was at your request 
 I wrote the Song ; but that of course I did it with ' all my 
 heart and soul, &c. &c.' but, after twisting it into a thousand 
 shapes I left that and much more out." " I ivil I say for myself, 
 there never was a fellow left more completely to his ovfii mother 
 wit in these things than I am. Why does not Stevenson 
 solicit something ? Lord Byron has sent me a song to set — 
 very beautiful, but devilish hard to put to music." " I have 
 not been very well latterly, continued head-aches — I should 
 think from hard fagging; for I am all day at it." "lam 
 sorry to give you so much trouble about the Preface, tho' it is 
 nothing to what I give myself." 
 
 117 Three Letters, 4to. (one of three sides), one undated, two 
 " Thursday night " (1815) 
 
 " I find Rogers suspected me of some Epistle there has been 
 about the shows in the Park ; but I have written nothing since 
 Blucher." " The sixth [Irish Melodyl I had to send was, 
 * Comedy to this bosom,' which, however, I am doubtful about 
 
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 retaining." " Pray, do not let the engraver put in the words 
 in the first verse of the Duett hcginning, ' Go then, deceiver, 
 go,' as I think I shall alter these four lines." " I send you a 
 Sacred Melody, which I have taken from Haydn, with altera- 
 tions of my own." " I could not help putting the words, 
 ' Should any one,' &c. under the Prince's Song ; however, I do 
 not at all insist upon your keeping this in. If the verses are 
 allowed to stand it is the most I can expect. I have a piece of 
 friendship to tell you, very unlike the high promising hoUow- 
 ness of certain friends of mine. You have often heard me 
 speak of Douglas. \_John Erskine Bouglas was appointed 
 Captain of IJt.M.S. Boston in December 1797, and Rear- 
 Admiral Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica, 6fh January, 1815, 
 which commaiid he held until the end of 1817.] He has just 
 been appointed Admiral on the Jamaica Station, and the first 
 thing he did was to offer me the Secretaryship. The salary is 
 something under five hundred a year, but the perquisites, even 
 in peace, are considerable, and if the Devil should put it into 
 Madison's head to carry on the war, it would be a fortune to 
 me. He has also told me there is a house there for the Ad- 
 miral, with nearly 100 acres of land, which is all quite at my 
 service, and I may take out Bessy to it. Is not this kind ? is 
 it not courageous, too, considering the sort of interest by which 
 Douglas has got his appointment ? He is a sterling fellow. I 
 have written, however, to decline it, as we," &c. 
 
 " And to tell you the truth, my dear friend, I look to the 
 plan which you and I have between us, as an equally abundant 
 source of emolument, with greater comfort and less risk. The 
 Duke of Devonshire has asked us to Chatsworth. I shall go 
 for two or three days, but Bessy does not like such operations." 
 " That paragon of honest fellows, Douglas." " Pray, let Mr. 
 Benison correct the spelling of * Cuishlah ma chree ' according 
 to Dr. Kelly, and likewise procure the name of ' lias sorrow 
 thy young days,' as I have just hunted through all my music 
 for Kelly's book and cannot find it." 
 
 118 One Letter, 4 to. (two sides), 3 1st January, 1815 
 
 Memoirs, No. 318. 
 
 119 One Letter, 4to. (four sides), (1815) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 319. 
 
 Sixteen lines on the third side and four lines on the back of 
 this letter omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 120 One Letter, 4to. (two sides), 30th May, 1815 
 
 Memoirs, No. 320. 
 
 This letter bears Mr. Power's endorsement, "July 5th, 
 1815," which the Post mark establishes as the date of its 
 receipt in London. 
 
 D 
 
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 121 One Letter, 4to. (two sides), Sunday (December 19th, 1815) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 338. 
 
 122 One Letter, 8vo. (two sides), Monday night (1815) 
 
 Memoirs, No. 339. 
 
 Two lines omitted by his Lordship. The fourth line of the 
 verses altered. 
 
 123 Three Letters, two 4 to., one 8vo. (three sides), 1st, 28tb, and 
 
 — January, 1816 
 
 " As for myself I have got quite well again." " Just now 
 I am at the very end of my tether.''' " My conscience is very 
 well satisfied with the way I have performed my task for you. 
 You have here, I think, the purest and most perfect little col- 
 lection of poems I have ever written, and I only hope the 
 Public may, for your sake, agree with me in opinion ; I mean 
 to dedicate the Number to Dalton. I have discovered since I 
 wrote last an error in the words of Lord Byron's * Farewell" 
 by Stevenson, which would annoy the Noble Bard if he saw it. 
 ' For others weal availed on earth' should be ' availed on 
 high.'' " "I must tell you a trait of this Upholsterer: two or 
 three months ago I called upon him at Derby to chuse a music- 
 stand for my room. After I had chosen the one I liked, or 
 rather indeed asked whether he could not make one cheaper 
 for me, the poor fellow said, blushing and stammering, * Mr. 
 Moore, if you will do me the favour to accept of that trifle 
 from me, as a small mark of my esteem for your character, I 
 shall consider it as the greatest favour you can do me.' I did 
 not hesitate, of course ; these things are very gratifying." 
 
 124 Four Letters, three 4to., one 8vo., 8th, 12th, 15th, and 18th 
 
 February, 181 G 
 
 " I am going to give on "Wednesday my annual dinner to the 
 natives liere — indeed, the smallness of our table will force me, 
 I fear, to make two dinners of it — and I want you to send me 
 off by to-morrow's night Mail a Barrel of Oysters and three or 
 four Lobsters, which will arrive on Tuesday and be ready to 
 take the field on Wednesday evening. The Fish for Dinner I 
 think I can get good enough here, and certainly cheaper." 
 " I wish you would send to Longman for ' Paul's Letters to his 
 Kinsfolk ' for me, and if Murray has not already forwarded 
 Hunt's ' Rimini ' to me, they can come together." 
 
 125 Five Letters, three 4to., two 8vo. (one of three sides), 14th, 
 
 21st, 23rd, 27th and 31st March, 1816 
 •' Poor Lord Byron ! I begin to think you had better per- 
 haps pubHsh his Song with Stevenson's Music, for I should 
 suj)pose he would not wish the words any longer delayed from 
 the Public." " The fish you sent was excellent, I assure you 
 Td:^ uame as a dinner-giver has gone far and wide on the strength 
 
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 Xii it. The lobster particularly will not soon be forgotten. No 
 one here ever saw so large a one, and I have heard more than 
 once since of my ' Lobster as big as myeclf?'" "We had a 
 charity ball ia AshbourPiC on Tuesday, of which I was steward, 
 and I am to be in the chair at the Lancaster anniversary at 
 Derby on the 30th, so you see what I am promoted to," "ac- 
 tually smoked out of our house." " The ytoor man at the 
 inn (whose charity ball was last week), has just sent me in n 
 small accouut of about six pounds, if you could conveniently send 
 me so much before Sunday, — for I believe he is much distressed.* 
 " I lost half my last night's sleep in fidgetting over the possi- 
 bility of your having already distributed some copies of this 
 Song." " How could you think that I would take away the 
 compliment of the Dedication from Dalton, or that Bessy 
 would accept of it, so transferred ?" " I hope you drank our 
 healths on the marriage anniversary, last Monday." " I have 
 promised to dedicate ' Oh yes — when the bloom of Love's boy- 
 hood,' to ]\Iiss Strutt." 
 
 126 Three Letters, two 4to. (both of two sides), and one folio, 
 
 1 1th, 14th, and 22nd April, 1816, (the latter franked by 
 Mr. Arkwright) 
 
 "You really are to be pitied. Your Poet 140 miles off, 
 your Composer 300, and your poor assistant Benison lying ill — 
 no one else would bear it with half so much patience." "It was 
 very lucky you sent me the former revises of the letterpress 
 with the last ones, for I find that the Printer had the unac- 
 countable stupidity to put instead of ' The Star of its Worship' 
 — The Star of its Iloiiship. One would think he was looking 
 at the caricature you sent me, for the star of his Ilorscship 
 would be very appropriate there — but there is no such thing as 
 trusting printers. I suppose my hand-writing misled him." 
 " You have not said what you thought of my grand exhibition 
 at Derby ?" " The impudence of that scribbler Fitzsimons is 
 quite amusing." Sends dedication of the first number of Sacred 
 Songs to Edward Tuite Dalton, Esq. " As I expected I am 
 obliged to give another dinner to clear off my debts here. You 
 cannot conceive what a Dr. and Cr. account they keep of din- 
 ners." " My number at dinner is six — a Baronet and an M.P. 
 the chief dignitaries ! is'ut salmon very good just now?" 
 
 127 Two Letters. One 4to., one 8vo. Thursday, and May 30, 
 
 1816 
 
 " Athenaeum, Thursday. " I came to town last night and 
 and have just been to Longmans where I have * done the deed,' 
 and yoii shall have the money to-morrow." [See Lord John 
 Russell's note in Memoirs, Vol. IL p. 110.] " Bessy wants a 
 set of the Irish Melodies, as those I gave her before we were 
 married are grown too old and too precious for use." 
 
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 128 Three Letters, 4to. (one of three sides) 6th, 13th, and 24th 
 
 June, 1816 
 
 " I hear rumours of war from Dublin, between you and the 
 Knight, and you and your brother. Is there any further pro- 
 gress in hostilities since I left you ? " "I am in a most ner- 
 vous state of anxiety about our next number of Irish Melodies, 
 for we are sadly off for materials. I must have Bunting's two 
 volumes to look over and Thomson's Jirst.^' " I wish you to 
 have the name ' Bessy' cancelled in the last verse of the ' Isle 
 of Loves,' and ' Susan' put in its place. My happiness is (as 
 they say) *too true to put in a Ballad ! ' " " The collections 
 you have lent me (particularly Doctor Kelly's) have given me 
 more confidence about our next number." On the other side 
 are the remaining verses of " Reason and Folly and Beauty." 
 [Foil)' verses follow^ 
 
 129 Five Letters, four 4to. one 8vo. (of three sides), 1st, 16th, 
 
 31st July, Monday Nt., and Tuesday Nt. 1816 
 
 " Don't you think it would be right to say * Moore's Irish 
 Melodies, over the Advertisement ? there are so many now." 
 "I have paid my rent this day — twenty pounds, which I 
 nursed up since I left London, and have at the same time, 
 given six months' notice of quitting my cottage. So that you 
 see I am determined to pass the winter with you." " Heartily, 
 most heartily sorry am I that the die is cast, and that you are 
 indeed become ' belligerent Poivers,'' instead of keeping to that 
 ' Holy Alliance' which Nature meant between you. But there 
 is no help for it now. What I write principally for is to beg 
 that you will bring a copy of Fitzsimon's second number with 
 
 you." 
 
 130 Four Letters, two 4to., two 8vo., 11th, 14th, 19th, and Monday 
 
 Night, August, 1816 
 
 " I wish you would look at a house I see advertised. No. 2, 
 in the street off Grosvenor Place, where Raymond lives, and 
 let me know the terms, &c." "We expect Rogers here the 
 day after to-morrow, and I am afraid he will insist upon my going 
 on with him to the Lakes for two or three days." " Rogers has 
 been with us for the greater part of last week, and it was with 
 some difficulty and much regret on both sides that I got off 
 going with him to the Lakes of Cumberland ; but I could not 
 spare the time, and besides Bessy is ordered for a week or a 
 fortnight to Matlock or Buxton." " I wish you would send 
 to Hone, the bookseller (in Fleet St., I believe, he who pub- 
 lished something of Lord Byron's) for half a dozen copies of 
 
 • Lines on the Death of , from the Morning Chronicle.' 
 
 They are mine, and I find from my friend Rogers, have made a 
 great noise." " Tired as I am after an excursion to Dove-dale 
 with our young friend Grierson. 1 have contrived to copy out 
 my weekly task for you." "Wc go to Matlock for a few days 
 on Wednesday." 
 
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 131 Three Letters, two 4to. (one of two sides) one 8vo. (two sides), 
 
 2nd, 12th, and 29th September, IblG 
 
 "Matlock. With much difficulty I have got a pen and ink 
 to scrawl you a line, which I fear you v/ill take for Steveiisoii's, 
 from the penmanship of it." " This place is very pleasant, hut 
 we shall leave it the day after to-morrow." " I send you the two 
 I promised, I have a good many more verses to ' Ladies eyes.' 
 What is the real name of this Air ?" Sends two verses : 
 
 " lie was wandering from virtue, from peace, and from fame. 
 Nor knew what he sunk to, so tlowery the fall." 
 
 132 Four Letters, three 4 to. (one three and one two sides) one Svo. 
 
 (three sides), 10th, 14th, 20th, and 30th October, 1816 
 
 " Derby." " I have only time to say that here I am in the 
 thick of the Music meeting, and (what is better) here is Sir 
 John Stevenson too. He goes back with me to the Cottage on 
 Friday or Saturday." " Sir John came with me here (May- 
 field Cottage) on Saturday, and we have been at work ever 
 since. We have done ' Silently Sleeps.' ' This earth is the 
 planet.' 'Hark the Vesper hymn.' 'Tell me not of Eden's 
 bowers.' 'The banquet is over' — and I have written a few 
 anonymous words for him to one of his own duetts." Enquiries 
 respecting Sir John's son. " I never ceased courting Mrs. 
 Robt. Arkwright at the Musical Festival on the subject of her 
 Songs for you." " I open my letter to add, that we must hke- 
 wise inflict upon you the trouble of going to Stevenson's 
 Slaughter House in St. Martin's Lane to enquire if there are 
 any letters for him." " I send you the following things which 
 Stevenson has arranged within these few days. ' The banquet 
 is over ' ' This earth is the planet.' " and eight more are named. 
 " Which three [last] (he bids me tell you), with the tv/o above 
 mentioned Sacred Melodies " [' Go forth to the Mount ' and 
 ' Weep Children of Israel ' (" written by me and compared by 
 him within this ioeek''y], and the nineteen he sent you by Mr. 
 Kawlins from Derby, make up his Number of twenty-four." 
 " Betioeen ourselves, the worthy knight has brought a most 
 troublesome house about my ears. His son has now been with 
 us for a week, and unless you contrive to urge Sir John to 
 leave town, he is likely to continue as much longer, which will 
 be such a tax on my time and patience as I really shall but very 
 ill be able to bear. In addition to all this, the Lambarts have 
 arrived [^from Lord Talbot's in Stafordshire'] to see young 
 Stevenson to-night, and they dine with us to-morrow, and I 
 should not at all wonder if they too took a fancy to their quar- 
 ters and remained here till Stevenson's arrival — so pray do hurry 
 him out of town, or I shall be ruined. I tell you all this in 
 perfect confidence, but time is just now so precious to me, that 
 some thing must be done to free me from these very inconsi- 
 derate visitors." 
 
30 piiisT day's sale. 
 
 133 One Letter, 4to. (tliree sides), 5th November, 1816 
 
 Sends Dedications of 'Oft in the Stilly night,' and other 
 Songs done " during his [Sir John Stevenson's] last moments 
 here " [at Mayfield Cottage] to JNIiss Caroline Strutt, to Miss 
 Isabella Strutt, and to Miss Selina Cooper. " His boat glee is 
 to be inscribed to Miss Cooper." 
 
 " When you are sending me down the Reviews get Philipp's 
 Garland for Sheridan, and let it come with them." " Stevenson 
 has had the magnificence to make me a present —at least I think 
 he means it so. You are to order for me next door to your 
 house, four cravats of the same pattern he got there. One of 
 them was spotted with a kind of rose-bud, and another with a 
 little purplish spot. They were to be put dovn\ to his account." 
 
 134 Mr. Moore to Mrs. Power (during Mr. Power's absence in Dub- 
 
 lin). Two letters, 4to. 2nd and 28th December, 1816 
 
 " I have had a letter from Mr. Power, and am delighted to 
 find that the business between him and his brother is likely to 
 be settled by arbitration." 
 
 135 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power. Five letters, three 4to. (one of three, 
 
 and one of four sides). Thursday Night, Saturday Night, 
 three undated, 1816 
 
 *' Indeed, my chief reason for wishing to go to town was, 
 the thought that I might be instrumental in bringing you and 
 Stevenson to more amicable feelings towards each other.'" (yopies 
 of "Almighty God, when round thy Shrine," published in the 
 Sacred Songs, and "The Sale of Loves." " Only I know you 
 are not a sarcastic fellow, at least to me, I should have sus- 
 pected something of the kind lurking in the first sentence of 
 your last letter, where you hoped that the ' recovery from the 
 fatigues of my dinner parties (one of them about six weeks 
 since) v/onld enable me soon to send the Ballads I had pro- 
 mised.' You shall have the Ballads and myself along with 
 them on Sunday next, and we shall I hope crack a bottle over 
 the birth of the Sacred Songs before I leave you." With re- 
 ference to Mr. PhiHp Crampton's words, for a duett by Sir 
 John Stevenson, entitled " Peace," Mr. Moore writes — "As to 
 what Stevenson says about the Duke of Dorset, the words are 
 not so meant by any means. They allude (though certainly 
 rather confusedly) to the Duchess's signing, with Lord Whit- 
 worth, the short peace of 1802." 
 
 136 One Letter, 4to. (two sides), Mth January, IS 1 6 
 
 Memoirs, No. 342. 
 
 Three lines at the end omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 137 One Letter, 4to. 24th September, 1816 
 
 Memoirs, No. 359. 
 
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 138 One Letter, 8vo. 1st October, IdlG 
 
 Memoirs, No. 360. 
 
 Two lines in the body of the letter, with five after the signa- 
 ture omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 139 Three Letters, 4to. 2nd, 4th, and 22nd January, 1817 
 
 " I have just been suffering scarijication over my left temple, 
 and have lost between three and four ounces of blood for a 
 troublesome pain I had had for some time in my head, which 
 the medical men both here [Derby] and at Ashbourne say has 
 proceeded from too intense application." " The pain in my 
 head returned again last night, and I suppose I must lose a 
 good deal more blood — it is unfortunate I should be troubled 
 •with any thing in my head just now when I have such urgent 
 demand for all its exertions." 
 
 140 Four Letters, two 4to. (one of two sides), two 8vo. February 
 
 8th, and March 26th, 2Sth, and 31st, 1817 
 
 " I have not yet looked at the proofs, but shall endeavour to 
 send those you want for Stevenson immediately, and shall take 
 the rest with me to town myself the iveeJc after next when I go 
 to put my Poem \_LaUa Rookh] to press, and take a house some- 
 where near London till it is published. I do not mean to 
 carry up my live luggage till I have the house ready to put 
 them in. I got the £5 quite safe, and it has kept the devil 
 out of my pocket these few weeks past — but I am now obliged 
 to draw, and I am sorry to say most of the sum goes to pay the 
 Longmans what I lately extracted from them, till I see whether 
 there is likely to be any evasion about the Terms of the Poem. 
 If they hesitate you and I will print it ourselves." 
 
 " I feel quite sure you will not press me 7ioiv (in the crisis of 
 my fate) more than is absolutely necessary, nor oblige me to 
 bring out the Number in a state I do not perfectly approve of. 
 In addition to the feelings of kindness I know you have for me, 
 it would evidently not be your own interest to do so, as if I fail 
 in my great work I shall still have my fame in the lyrical way 
 to retire upon ; but, if I should so unluckily contrive it, as at 
 the same time to fail in both, I am he-devilled, and you with 
 me. You may depend, however, upon my doing every thing to 
 have the Number out as soon after the Poem as possible, but I 
 am the more anxious to have it good from looking upon it as a 
 corps de reserve for my fame, in case the tnain attack is unsuc- 
 cessful." " I have just given my tailor a draft for aG39 which 
 he will present to-morrow." 
 
 141 Eight Letters, two 4to. five 8vo. one 12mo. 24th, and 26th 
 April, 6th, 10th, 14th, loth, 21st, and 31st May, 
 1817. (One of two sides, dated " Hornsey," with a 
 draft on Mrs. Branigan for ^t*20. never presented). 
 
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 " My money I left with Mrs. Branigan to take care of for 
 me." " I have not been in town since I saw you except on 
 Saturday last, when I went in to the Royal Academy dinner." 
 " I believe I am to be announced for the 22nd, so you may 
 imagine what a bustle I am in." " About this day week I hope 
 to see you in town and crack a bottle with you to Larry Rook 
 and other Irish friends of ours." "Will you and Mrs. Power 
 come out and dine with us to-morrow ? You know our hour 
 (three o'clock), and the stage will take you back at seven." 
 
 142 Six Letters, one4to. four 8vo,, one 12rao. — June, 26th August, 
 
 10th, 18th, 19th, (56 Davies Street,) and 20th September, 
 
 1817 
 " I have received the Edinburgh Review, full of praises of 
 Lalla Rookh. The one that first spoke slightingly (as I told 
 you) has quite altered its tone, and there is in the Journal called 
 ' The Scotsman' a most flattering article." " We think Barbara 
 a little better." " Barbara has been this morning so ill that 
 we felt seriously alarmed — however, the medical man says she 
 is not worse." "All's over — my dear sir — we've lost our poor 
 Barbara," &c. "You will find us here — where we are more 
 retired (there being none of them in town) than we could be 
 any where else. May I trouble you to lend us a couple of table 
 and tea spoons and a couple of forks," &c. " May I ask you 
 have the inclosed put in the Morning Chronicle, Times, and 
 Courier of Monday ?" 
 
 143 Five Letters, three 4to. two Svo. 9th October, 15th, 24, 2/th, 
 
 and 30th November, 1817. One with beautiful impres- 
 sion of the Poet's Seal, with Erin go bragh above the 
 Irish Harp. 
 
 "Wishes Mr. Power to accompany Bessy " in the Coach down 
 to Sittingbourne, and look at a house there is there to be let?" 
 " Stothard means to do the "Willow over again, and, indeed, 
 
 promised to have it ready again. Rogers says the two other 
 
 drawings are the best he ever saw of even his favourite Stot- 
 hard's, and wishes you would dispose of them to him, when the 
 engravings are taken." Sends new words to "the Girl I left 
 behind me." " I am gradually getting into some sort of com- 
 fort." " I shall try him again by Tuesday's post, when I shall 
 send you the second verse of ' "Wreath the Bowl' with the music. 
 When we are settled, however, I think we shall be very com- 
 fortable the Green-house has been left in statu quo; 7G 
 
 plants as per inventory. ^^ 
 
 144 Four Letters, one 4to. three Svo. Cone of two sides), 3rd, 8th, 
 
 19th, and 29th December, 1817 
 
 " This note is the first I have written in my new study, 
 which is I assure you very neat and comfortable. We were last 
 night till very late getting the books into the shelves." AUud- 
 
FIRST day's sale. 33 
 
 ino; to an air composed to " Tell me not," Moore writes, " I 
 tliink it is the sort of thing Braham would hke — if he v:iU sing 
 any thing of mine — and at all events you had better try him with 
 it." " I am glad you may agree to my decision about Steven- 
 son, and hope it will all end as amicably as I wish — but 
 would'nt it have been better of you to tell me you wanted my 
 opinion in writing, as a document ? because that would have 
 given me an opportunity of wording it with more care and 
 strictness. As it is, there is nothing in what I wrote to you, I 
 believe that is not exactly what I mean. But I certainly should 
 like that, at the same time with my opinion of his want of punc- 
 tuality, there should likewise stand upon record what I thought 
 of your oi'(?r-exactness, if you had held him down rigorously to 
 the strict letter of his agreement. It is now, however, I hope 
 in a fair way of being settled — but it is the ill-blood generated 
 in these transactions on both sides, which always makes it so 
 difficult to do anything with them." " I send you the little 
 Preface [to the National Airs'] which I hope you will like. 
 You will perceive, that I have made a pretty direct puf in it, 
 and I rather think it will not be taken wrongly. If, however, 
 it should appear to you too strong, it will be very easy to leave 
 out the two last sentences altogether, and end with tiie words 
 * Hippocrene with its Song.' " [This passage did appear, hut is 
 omitted by Mr. Moore in his Collected Works. — See Lot IGI.] 
 " The Edinburgh Article is come out, and considering that 
 Jeffery had a hard card to play, having committed himself to 
 the Public by such a sweeping condemnation of my poetry 
 altogether, I have come off pretty well. Indeed the only thing 
 he seems to complain of is ray having too many beauties." 
 
 145 Six Letters, two 4to. three 8vo. one irregular, Monday (2), 
 Wednesday, Saturday, Saturday Night, and I undated 1817 
 
 "Oft in the stilly, &c., I shall take up with me." Parcel 
 " to be folded in strong paper and forwarded by the mail to 
 Mr. Jeffery immediately." " Send the inclosed to Twiss, and 
 get an answer if you can to it? I don't know his direction, 
 and our places at the Theatre to-morrow night depend upon 
 him." " I am obliged to go off to the Russell Square region to 
 enquire about the Branigans, but I shall be with you at four 
 o'clock, and join you over your pot-luck, if you'll let me." 
 " We have left our keys behind us in the bundle, and therefore 
 shall be doomed to pass the night in a lock vp house, if you do 
 not send it to us by the bearer." " We shall have a fine life of 
 it between him and Carpenter." 
 
 1-4G One Letter, 8vo. 8th January, 1817 
 
 Memoirs, No. 362. 
 
 Three lines in the body and two at top omitted by his 
 Lordship. 
 
34 FIRST day's sale. 
 
 147 One Letter, 4to. 18th January, 1817 
 
 Memoirs, No. 364. 
 
 148 One Letter, 4to. Paris, 7th August, 1817 
 
 Memoirs, No. 379. 
 
 P.S. omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 149 One Letter, 4to. 19 th November, 1817 
 
 Memoirs, No. 386. 
 
 Eight lines in the body omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 150 One Letter, 8vo. 20th December, 1817 
 
 Memoirs, No. 387. 
 
 151 One Letter, 4to. 23rd December, 1817 
 
 Memoirs, No. 388. 
 
 A curious passage of eight lines respecting dedication to 
 Lady Lansdowue, omitted by his Lordship. " / rather think 
 it would look too ready loith my homage to the noble neighbour, 
 and that I shall not dedicate to any one.'''' Two lines of P.S. 
 also omitted. 
 
 152 Five Letters, four 4to. (one of two sides), one 8vo. (unsigned, 
 
 two sides), 5th, 12th, 21st, 27th, and 31st January, 
 1818 
 
 " The air of ' a Temple to Friendship' is a Waltz, but of 
 what country I don't know. You could easily find out by 
 enquiring. It is in these things we miss poor Bennison. We are 
 going on Monday to pass a day or two at my friend Bowler's, 
 and I expect to make use of him in finding out for me some 
 good sacred airs." " Lady Lansdowne has so won me over by 
 her good nature to Bessy, that I mean after all to dedicate the 
 book to her. I told her, however, she should have the Songs 
 to look over, before she committed herself as Dedicatee'^ 
 Mentions a long letter from Lady Flint about her compositions 
 to Lalla Rookh. Corrections to "Dost thou remember," and 
 "Oh come to me." " I was surprised on Sunday by a letter 
 from your brother's Attorney, giving me notice of my attendance 
 being necessary in February at the trial of his action against 
 you. This is sad work every way, and will be devihsh incon- 
 venient to myself — besides the real and deep regret I feel at 
 the explosion between you. Lady Lansdowne is coming to call 
 on Bessy this morning, when I mean to play the airs to her." 
 ** We expect Mrs. Branigan down on a farewell visit some time 
 soon. You know I suppose they are going to Jamaica for two 
 years." Sends dedication to the Marchioness of Lansdowne. 
 " I am in great alarm about our Seventh Number [Irish 
 Melodies'] in the first place I miss one in the set which you 
 sent me, which I particularly wish to keep, that is, ' Shake the 
 
FIRST DAY S SALE. 35 
 
 tears from thy harp, let the Hght of its Song.' In the next place 
 I cannot reconcile myself to keeping ' \Yhen the cold earth lies 
 over,' thongh they are some of my hest words ; but they go so 
 cursedly ill to that tune. In the third place you have printed 
 the two different sets of words I sent you for ' the Girl I 
 left behind me' together. When I wrote the words beginning 
 * Against the wind her foaming track,' I meant that the former 
 ones beginning ' Tho' joy in every land may cheer,' should be 
 entirely cancelled. For God sake look for ' Shake the tear 
 from thy harp,' as I tremble for the success of the Number 
 unless we make it much better than it." " When you arc 
 advertising the National Melodies, do not put ' dedicated to, &c.' 
 as it always looks ^»^y and vulgar." 
 
 153 Three Letters, 4to. (two of two sides). 6th, 21st, and 28th 
 February, 1818 
 
 With reference to numerous cancels Mr. Moore writes, 
 " You may easily suppose it would be much less trouble to me 
 to let it go out as it is without racking my brains to improve it ; 
 but my anxiety for the reputation of the work is predominant 
 over every other feeling." " Let me have Philipp's second 
 letter to the Edinburgh Review published by Hone." " What 
 Stevenson now proposes," &c. (he being much in want of money), 
 &c. '• it will give great pleasure to hear that the matter is finally 
 settled, as we have had God knows enough of wrangling — 
 enough to disgust me almost with what has hitherto been the 
 pleasantest pursuit of my life, and to incline me very much to 
 give it up altogether." " Wishing success to whatever side 
 ri(/hi is upon, and trusting," &c. With reference to the 
 renevval of the agreement between Mr . P ower and Mr. 
 Moore, the latter writes — " Whatever may be your determina- 
 tion or ?;?y oivn I trust nothing will ever disturb the friendly 
 intercourse between us so long. You will always find me ready 
 to acknowledge with gratitude, the liberality, promptitude, aud 
 friendliness of your dealings with me. As to your transactions 
 with your brother, that is another concern, and I have seen 
 much on both sides to lament and disapjirove of. But with 
 respect to your conduct to 7He, I am glad to have an opportu- 
 nity of thus putting upon record, that up to this moment (with 
 the single exception of your a/t er-ihought of a deduction from 
 my annuity — (a circumstance which I myself do not see in half 
 so unfavourable a light as some of my friends), I have ex- 
 perienced nothing from you but the most ready liberahty, the 
 most kind attentions and the most considerate toleration of my 
 irregularity and delays. This is the language, altogether, 
 which I hold to every one, in speaking of your conduct to me, 
 and I trust I never shall have reason to recall a single word of 
 
 it." A VERY REMAllKABLE LETTER. 
 
36 FIRST day's sale. 
 
 154 Six Letters, four 4to., two 8vo., 4th, 9th, 13th, 24th, 28th and 
 30 til March, 1818 
 
 " I am sadly vexed to find Stevenson has not written the 
 new accompaniment to the single voice (it will not require any 
 alteration as harmonized) of 'Wreath the Bowl.' He pro- 
 mised me most faithfully he would, and it was only on that 
 promise that I let him ofF the evening we looked over them 
 together — "Why don't you announce the National Melodies in 
 the Newspapers. Is this the name you have determined on ? 
 I should rather have preferred (what I believe I called them at 
 first), 'Airs of all Countries,' or something perhaps shorter 
 than this — but I suppose the title's engraving. Do you see a 
 new book by Thomas Brown announced in the Papers ? AVhat 
 a dreadful account of your Strand Fire !" Returns proofs of 
 7th Number Irish Melodies, except " They may rail at this 
 life,' for which I must have another second verse, if I can pos- 
 sibly hit upon one to please me, and many is the attempt I 
 have made. — It will, I believe, be a pretty Number after all — 
 The words are certainly as good as any. Luck attend it and 
 all you undertake is sincerely the wish of yours, &c." " It 
 would be a great ease to my mind to leave out ' They may 
 rail at this life,' but it will be such a gem in the Number, if I 
 can finish it properly, that I will certainly not indulge my idle- 
 ness by rejecting it." " After many attempts (so many as 
 would surprise you) I have found that my first idea of the 
 second verse for ' They may rail at this life' was much better 
 than I have since been able to strike out, and accordingly with 
 some alteration in the four last lines, it is to stand pretty much 
 as it was bef )re. — Has the Arbitrator made his award? I have 
 been anxious, but almost fearful to ask about it." 
 
 155 Five Letters, three -ito., two 8vo., 12th, 14th, 16th, 19th and 
 25th May, 1818 
 
 " It has occurred to me since I came down that we must 
 have a Preface to the 7th Number, and it is odd neither of us 
 thought of it before. You shall have it in a day or two. I 
 have got a most valuable correspondent and contribiitor for 
 our future Melodies — a Mr. Croker, near Cork, who has just 
 sent me thirty-four Airs, and a very pretty drawing of a cele- 
 brated spot in his neighbourhood. He promises me various 
 traditions too, and sketches of the scenery connected with 
 - them. All which will be of the greatest service to us." '' I 
 shall set out for Ireland on Monday." — " What an extraordi- 
 nary decision this is ! I cannot understand it, tho' I own I 
 feared all along something unfavourable to you. My only hesi- 
 tation as to a future agreement between you and me is the fear 
 that with all these burdens on you, vou will not be equal to it. 
 One thing I can promise you and that is, that your brother 
 shall ncTcr have any thing to do with me. — Keep up your 
 
riRST bay's sale. 37 
 
 Spirits, my dear Sir. Nothing is got by drooping, and with 
 exertion you may retrieve all yet." "I am delighted t5 hear 
 you arc making up your mind so heroically." Manchester — 
 Saturday, " I will attend to what you say about Stevenson. I 
 hope to be in Dublin on Tuesday." 
 
 loG Two Letters, one -^to., one 8vo., 2.Srd and 2Gth June, 1818 
 
 "What is to be done about the Sacred Songs? Stevenson 
 was very ill when I was in Dublin, and I had no time to speak 
 to him, but your brother told me hois determined not to arrange 
 them. Daltou however seemed to think he ought as a private 
 matter between him and me and I intend to try whether he 
 will not." '* Didn't I say that ' They may rail at this lite' was to 
 be set half a note lower? It can't be helped now, I snppose." 
 — " You have not I suppose seen a full account of my dinner, 
 as it appeared in the Irish papers — and I have not one to spare 
 to send you." " The Longmans' have behaved with mi- 
 common generosity to me about the Fudges— they have added 
 two hundred pounds to my share of the profits from their own, 
 which is a thing of course I never could have dreamt of." 
 
 157 Four Letters, three 4to., one 8vo., 7th, 12th, IGth, and 24th 
 
 July, 1818 
 
 " Your brother has kept so close to the wind with me, that 
 1 feel not the least overflowings of generosity towards him, and 
 therefore should wish him to have no more than according to 
 the most rigid interpretation of the deed, he is entitled to. 
 With you I trust I shall have other opportunities (after we 
 have entirely settled this affair) of shewing what I feel. 1 con- 
 gratulate you on the spirit that has been shewn in so many of 
 the Elections." " Mr. Rogers n ill send some papers to your 
 house for me, which you will take great care of (as they are 
 Sheridan's MS.)" " I wish you to get a plate engraved for me, 
 at some Stationer's near you, for a pajier to paste in the front 
 of my books with my name and crest. I dare say you have 
 seen what I mean— something this way, 
 
 [Here there is a Sketch, with Thomas Mooke under it.'] 
 only don't let them make the Black's face too like me! Tell 
 them it is the crest of the Droyhedu Arms (a black's head out 
 of a Coronet), and perhaps they will be able to put it in some 
 more tasteful form than the above, by enclosing it in a garter 
 or some such way; — but pray get it done as soon as you can, 
 and have a thousand struck off for me." " The motto in the 
 garter ought, I suppose, to be that of the arms which is 
 
 FORTIS CADEUE CEDEUE NON POTEST. 
 
 Let them not make any mistake in the words. The Coronet 
 may be in or not." 
 
 "In your various characters of Bill Accepter, Fish-Agent, 
 &c. &.C. I keep ycu always fully employed. 1 now want you to 
 
38 FIKST day's sale. 
 
 dispatch me, by to-morrow night's coach, a good dish of fish 
 for Saturday's dinner. Lord Lansdowne comes to eat a family 
 dinner witli us, and a l^oxdi' s family dinner is a poet's best one 
 you know." " You perceive we have got rid of our large bill 
 — all by the Fudges. I do not owe the Longmans' a farfhing. 
 I shall however in the course of a k\\ days make use of your 
 name for a small shot of forty pounds or so.' 
 
 158 Three Letters, 4to., 14th, 18th, and 28th August, 1818 
 
 " I am full of grief and dismay, as usual, at the prospect of 
 interminable war between you and your brother, and I am 
 seriously afraid it will have the effect of preventing any satis- 
 factory arrangement between you and me, for I am sure to be 
 hooked, some way or other, iuto the conflict, if I continue con- 
 nected with either party." " I think of going in a few days to 
 Leamington Spa for the purpose of having an interview with 
 Mrs. Lefanu, the only surviving sister of Sheridan." " On my 
 return I found your letter with the account of poor Mr. Cooper's 
 death, and 1 have since had one from his son on the same sub- 
 ject. It appears to me to have been very like murder alto- 
 gether. I inclose you a letter I have had from Stevenson, 
 which you will see leaves us in the lurch altogether as to our 
 arrangements. I really do not know what is to be done. I 
 detest the idea of giving my things into the hands of any one 
 else, and jet in justice to your claim upon them, they 7mist be 
 put into a finished state by some one." " Pray pay Lord 
 Byron's letter for me." 
 
 159 Six Letters, five 4to., one 8vo., 3rd and 30th September, 2ud, 
 
 5th, 12th, and 31st October, 1818 
 
 " I have promised to go for two days to Sir Francis Burdett's, 
 and as his house is on the way to town, my intention at present 
 is (if it will not delay your business too much) to go to him on 
 Monday next, stay over Tuesday, and be in town on Wednesday 
 night." ^Vith reference to Sir John Stevenson, Mr. Moore 
 savs that he conceived that Mr. Power had performed his part 
 of what he had decided between them, in accepting Sir John's 
 draft, " and that he alone appeared to me to have failed in not 
 giving those things he had agreed for. I shall now I think 
 tell him that as I perceive I cannot depend upon his steadiness 
 for fulfilling punctually what I determine, I shall leave him to 
 his other advisers." " I write to you now about a most im- 
 portant affair — no less than a turtle of 120 lbs. weight, which 
 Branigan has, it appears, consigned to you for me. I shall be 
 much obliged by your receiving the illustrious stranger with 
 all due attention, and forwarding him in as good health and 
 spirits as possible to Sloperton. I mean him as a present to 
 my neighbour the Marquis, who is much better able to enter- 
 tain such an expensive guest than I am." " I hoj)e this reforma- 
 tion in his {Sir John Stevenson'' {>) ideas will be the means of 
 
FIRST day's sale. 39 
 
 restoring peace between you." " I grieve to hear that the 
 Foreigner we expected has died upon his passage, and am sorry 
 you have had so much trouble about liim, but I forgot to men- 
 tion to you that this Captain is also the bearer (or ought to be) 
 of a shawl for Bessy and a small parcel for me. These can't 
 have died on the passage also, and are worth inquiring about." 
 " You see Perry has puflFed us well, and Hunt has promised an 
 Article on the subject ; but I wish you would call at the Morn- 
 ing Chronicle office with the corrections I have written at the 
 other side. How could they make such a precious blunder?" 
 " I find that Wilkie and Murray are coming down to me about 
 my Sheridan work. \i you and the Longmans were to join the 
 party I should be finely beset !" 
 
 IGO Four Letters, 4to. (one of two sides), 14th November, (two of) 
 1 1th (one evidently wrongly dated), and 22nd December, 
 
 1818 
 
 " I suppose you find the 7th Number [Irish Melodies'] rather 
 slow in its circulation, from the dull season it was brought out 
 in, but I trust it will be a thriving lointer vegetable for you." 
 *' There is nothing in the world more easy to be understood 
 than the decision I proposed, and you have shewed over and 
 over in conversation with me that you did understand it. How- 
 ever, here it is again. That Stevenson should make up his 
 number of twenty-four each year from the commencement of 
 your agreement to the end, and that you should pay him the 
 full amount of the stipulated annuity. My arguments to induce 
 you to sacrifice the contested points (viz. his irregularity in the 
 time of giving these things, &c.) I shall not repeat ; because if 
 they were good for anything you remember them, and I thought 
 indeed you were convinced by them. 1 perceive, however, the 
 whole affair is as unsettled as ever, and I shall therefore hope- 
 lessly resign my office as arbitrator. What I mean by saying," 
 &c. " I am sorry we did not come to some more explicit un- 
 derstanding about our future connection when I was in town, 
 as there are many circumstances about which I am puzzled how 
 to act. I have found it necessary to make use of your name 
 for a bill at two months, having got rid of all my money in 
 leaving myself (thank God) without a single serious debt on 
 my shoulders. I have written to Stevenson to say that I com- 
 pletely and finally wash my hands of all future concern in the 
 differences between him and you. I also have entreated him 
 to let me know decisively what he means to do with respect to 
 the pieces that yet remain to be arranged for the Sacred Melodies, 
 as if he will not do them off hand for me, I must get somebody 
 else." 
 
 161 Three Letters and Advertisement to the National Melodies, 
 (with the omitted passage, see Lot 144), three 4to. 
 one 8vo. "Wednesdtiy, Epping Forest, Wednesday — 
 Saturday, Pater-Noster row, (1818)? 
 
40 FIRST day's sale. 
 
 " I suppose it is too late to object — but I do not like the 
 Magdalen at all. There is not sufficient beauty in the face, and 
 the drawing is bad." [See Lot 320.] " I am better pleased 
 ■with the set since I wrote last, and if Stevenson will attend to 
 my remarks, he may improve his symphonies, etc. without 
 much alteration. What I wished very much was to get some- 
 thing like ' Sound the loud Timbrel.' " " Arrived this morning 
 and went instantly to a Proctor ; who has given me some comfort 
 — my case is not so immediately desperate as I feared. I should 
 have been with you afterwards, but the rain has made me prefer 
 close quarters here, where I dine." 
 
 162 Musical aerangement, with words in Sir John >Stevenson's 
 
 Autoc/raph. 
 
 163 Mr. Moore to INIr. Power, and Mr. John Power, five Letters, 
 
 one folio, three 4 to. one 8vo. (of three sides), undated. 
 " Tuesday morning. I am not very well, and am going to 
 my Father's to dinner." " The letter to Sir James Cockburn 
 must be put in to-morrow." " Will you, when you are sending 
 any thing to me, find a little book called ' the adopted Daughter,' 
 for Statia, and let me have it. It is written by a Miss Sand- 
 ham." Second verse of " A Temple to Friendship," with four 
 lines of directions to Mr. Stothard for his drawing. " I am 
 sorry that I gave you the annoyance of sending the seventh 
 Nnmber to Stevenson (for it could have been easily avoided), 
 but, indeed, where there is so much disagreeable entanglement, 
 I find it is impossible to stir a step without annoying some of 
 you. As to keeping the proofs, that may be my fault also," 
 &c. " I long to hear what was your set-off against your 
 brother's charge on Carpenter's business. That was (to say the 
 least of it) unlucky. I did not hear Maiden's evidence, but 
 Carpenter told me that, if he were upon oath, he could not rate 
 what he gave you in at less than seventy pounds. I was very 
 anxious to hear your own statement of this." 
 
 164 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power, 4to. 6th April, 1818. 
 
 Memoirs, No. 392. 
 
 The last line, " You saw but one thing of mine in the 
 Chronicle," omitted by his Lordship. 
 
 J 65 One Letter, 4to. 16th June, 1818. 
 Memoirs, No. 397. 
 
 Twenty-four LINES o/'«Mpor<aHce 2« the body of the letter 
 omitted hy his Lordship. 
 166 Three Letters, two 4to. one 12mo. 7th, 16th, 21st January, 
 1819. 
 " I inclose some Music to go to Birchall's, and a list of 
 things I want from him. Do you think it will be too re- 
 markable orderinc; so many National Collections?'''' "The 
 
FIRST DAY S SALE. 41 
 
 Quarterly Review is very favourable indeed." Refers to the 
 conduct of Mr. William Power and the Irish Miscellany. " If 
 you and I are to have another agreement together, I should be 
 glad it was regularly and finally arranged, as it would not only 
 enable me to give a decisive answer to enquiries on the subject, 
 but would set my mind at rest with respect to the tasks and 
 pursuits that are before me. I have had no answer from Ste- 
 venson to my serious representations about the Sacred Songs. 
 I know not therefore what to do — to chuse another arranger 
 would be, I perceive, a break up for ever — and yet the work 
 must come out." " If you want fiUiny up your portmanteau 
 (not otherwise), you may send to Lanman the Taylor, at the top 
 of St. James's St., not far from the York Hotel, for my Kilkenny 
 coat, which he had to alter." 
 
 1G7 Four Letters, two -Ito., two 8vo., (one of two sides), 2Gth Feb- 
 ruary, Ifith, 18th, and 25th March, 1819. 
 
 " My Tom Crib (upon which you must be very silent, as I 
 have gone to the trouble of having the MS. copied before it 
 goes to the Printer, in order to enable me to deny it stoutly) is 
 nearly ready, and I am yours for the remainder of the year." 
 " I send you four Sacred Songs, all (I think) good ones " " I 
 have just had a letter from your brother, telling me that he is 
 about to open a house in London, and modestly asking me to 
 give him the preference in the publication of some of my works! 
 I mean to write a last strong letter to Stevenson about this 
 number of Sacred Melodies. I heard yesterday from Long- 
 mans that the first Edition of Crib (2000 copies) is nearly sold 
 already, and they have worked off 2000 more. This is spanking 
 work. I hardly expected any sale for it. Mrs. Power will 
 be glad to see that I never mean to touch H. R. H. again." 
 "I am going to the Harmonic at Bath on Friday." "I tried 
 something for the St. Patrick's, because you seemed to wish it 
 — but I could not please myself, and it is, I assure you, no loss 
 — for there is nothing less respectable than writing Songs for 
 these occasions, to be roared out by such fellows as Webbe and 
 Broadhurst. My Stewardship will cost me, I dare say, ten 
 guineas." Requests Mr. Power to send this ten guineas for 
 him to Mr. Tegart, Pall Mall. " Mind, you deny Crib stoutly 
 for me. I told the Longmans it would have been better to get 
 some inferior bookseller to publish it ; but they had stronger 
 hopes from it than I fear will be realized." 
 
 ICS Four Letters, 4to , 7th, 15th, 25th, 26th April, 1819, 
 
 " I forgot to tell you that I have written to Corry to call 
 upon your brother and pay him the £20 which you know 
 remained of our account, getting at the same time a receipt in 
 fall from him, which I shall be most happy to possess, and 
 have done with him for ever." " Did I tell you of the splendid 
 reception I met with at the Harmonic in Bath ? my health 
 
 F 
 
42 FinsT day's sale. 
 
 drank, with a flourishing speech from one of the Stewards, and 
 three times three. INly sor.gs encored over and over, &c. &c. 
 It was indeed very flattering." " I send you two Nationals and 
 the Song from Croker's book, which I thought you had taken 
 away when last here." " I have done a Sacred Song that I 
 think beats ' Sound the loud Timbrel,' in the same style. Its 
 title is ' War against Babylon.' " We shall be most happy to 
 see you at the time appointed. I want your services in the Fish 
 line for Friday, as I find I must give a clearing dinner before I 
 go to town — s"o by Thursday's coach, pray do not forget to send 
 me a good dish of Salmon, with Smelts to garnish (if there are 
 any), and a lobster or two. If you could be down by Friday 
 yourselves you would not be less welcome than the fish to us 
 and our guests." Family arrangements, &c. 
 169 Three Letters, 4to., 6th May, 16th and 25th June, 1819 
 
 Directions about " a light smart hat " from Bicknell's. *' I 
 
 am glad to see that two of our Pieces are performed at the 
 
 Covent Garden Oratorios. But why don't you make them 
 
 announce * Hark the Vesper Hymn,' as from INIoore's National 
 
 Melodies?" "I was sorry l' had not another peep at you 
 
 before I left that racketting town of yours. The quiet I have 
 
 plunged into here is just as much in the other extreme, and 
 
 almost as disagreeable." "I have sent oif all my worldly 
 
 wealth to Bessy [3Irs. Moore had gone to Edinburgh, to attend 
 
 her Sister's Marriage ivith Mr. William Henry Murray, of 
 
 the Theatre Royal Edinburgh, ivhich was solemnized on the 
 
 \9th July, 181 9j, to enable her to come home, and should 
 
 have been mvself upon the Parish or upon you, if it were not 
 
 for the God-send to which the inclosed refers, which Branigan 
 
 has sent wherewith to buy some things for his little girl." 
 
 170 Two Letters, 4to. (one of three sides), 22nd and 2Fth July, 
 
 1819 
 
 " I have some very gratifying accounts to give you of the 
 
 kind offers that have been made to me— even by some of my 
 
 great friends." 
 
 "The persons I alluded to in my last letter were, in the first 
 place, Lord Lansdowne, who wrote immediately to me on seeing 
 the statement in the Newspapers, offering to become security 
 for me to the amount of the claims, or to do any thing else 
 that might be of service. Lord Tavistock, too, wrote down to 
 his brother Lord John (who is at Bowood), bidding him enquire 
 whether any thing had been done or was doing for me, and 
 adding thes'e words — ' I am very poor, but I have always had 
 such a strong admiration of Moore's independence of mind, that 
 I would willingly sacrifice something to be of use to him.' 
 Lord John himself had already begged me to accept the copy- 
 right of a book he has just published, as his mite towards my 
 extrication. In short, never was any thing more gratifying than 
 
PiKST Day's sa.le. 43 
 
 the 2cal every body shews about nic. I have just heard from 
 l)ubliii, that the Bisho|) of Kildare (whom I do not know, even 
 by sight) offered to put down £iA) liimself towards a subscrip- 
 tion." Pecuniary arrangements — "The Longmans I must keep 
 entirely for my (/reat effort, so that in the mean time I shall 
 be quite adrift for the means of subsistence, travelling, &c. 
 vmless I can raise the wind by the assistance of you or IMurray. 
 ILim I have not tried yet, &c." To Mr. Power Mr. Moore 
 apologises for " thus pressing and * spurring so free a horse ' as 
 I have always found you." " I suppose you saw the paltry 
 paragrapii extracted from that fellow Pitzsimon's paper — ' the 
 tiilented friend' of Lord Donoughmore." 
 
 171 Three Letters, two 4to., one 8vo., 3rd, 4th, and 18th August, 
 
 1819 
 
 A Commission for " our neighbours the Phipps's — to send 
 down directed to me. by Thursday's Coach, four good lobsters, 
 1200 prawns, and three German Sausages. They are to have 
 a rural pic-nic on Friday, and this supply is for the occasion." 
 " Many, many thanks for your kind exertions to assist me. 
 There could not be any thing, just at this moment, more con- 
 venient, or more full of relief to my little difficulties, than your 
 having discharged this last Bill. You see I have attended to 
 the hint at the end of your letter (which was according to the 
 good old mode of the Commons of England in tacking grievances 
 to a Money liiU), and have sent three Nationals, which, I 
 think, will all do— at least in the company of their betters," 
 &c. " I send back the Sausages, which are pronounced to be 
 very had. You will make the best exchange of them for belter 
 that you can. The lobsters and prawns were exciUent." 
 
 172 Letter transmitting one of them. Three Letters, 4to. (one of 
 
 two sides), 23rd October, (7th) and 11th November, 
 1819 
 
 Florence. *' The fact is, I have met with nothing in our 
 way since I came to Italy, and they may talk as they will of 
 the music one hears in this Country, I can only say, that 
 (except an hostler singing ' Di tanti imlpiti ' in the Stable Yard 
 the other night) I have not heard a sound of any thing like 
 popular nmsic since I came." Rome. " I hope to be in Eng- 
 land about this day month." " I send as accurate a descrip- 
 tion of the times of the Airs [intended for 2nd Number of 
 National Melodies] (which it is a great pity we did not think 
 of that evening we revised the whole) as I can possibly make 
 out from a recollection of their characters here; and, as I 
 observe you are one shurt of the number, you must only put iu 
 ' How ha{)py once' as a Swedish Air, and turn my other Air 
 into a ' Moorish ' one." 
 
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 173 Three Letters, 4to. (one of three sides with Musical Notation), 
 13th, 16th, and 31st December, 1819 
 
 "Just arrived in Paris, safe and sound." "I am ready to 
 set about crny and eve?-i/ v/ork you may have for me to do. I 
 find I must not come to England. The Longmans have written 
 to me that it is the opinion of all my friends I should by no 
 means think of crossing the water," " I have only time (from 
 Chantrey going so much sooner than I expected) to write out 
 the first verse of the Song I promised." [Name spelled 
 Chauntry ^ " 30, Rue Chanteraine, You will perceive there 
 is an alteration in the first verse [' When thou shalt wander by 
 that sweet light,' sends the two verses]. " I had better write 
 out these words with the music on the other side." " After all 
 this is a better place to pick up music in than Italy." 
 
 17-1 Three Letters, 4to. (one of two sides), 29th January, 8th and 
 2«th Februarj^, 1820 
 
 " I have been in a most wretched state of distraction and un- 
 comfort here. Indeed it is the first time since I married that 
 my home has been uncomfortable ; for being thrown upon ex- 
 ternal supplies for our dinner, &c. and contriving i/iut but ill 
 and expensively (from Bessy's powers of management being 
 completely nullified by her ignorance of the language), and 
 being in the midst of the bustle of a Metropolis, struggling 
 against its distractions and its expenses without success, my 
 mind I assure you has been kept in a continued state of fever, 
 ■which was not a little increased by the Longmans having 
 pledged me to the public for a work of which there are not a 
 hundred lines written, and the proceeds of which, you may well 
 believe, are essentially necessary to my existence at present. 
 However, all this is, I trust, now at an end. I have been lucky 
 enough to find a Cottage, just such as you know I like for a 
 workshop, within fifteen minutes walk of Paris (indeed hardly 
 out of it), to which we take ourselves on Monday next, and out 
 of which I shall seldom stir till I have brought up my arrears in 
 all directions, to you as well as to others. My address now is. 
 No. 11, Allee des Veuves, Champs Elysees." "Life swarms 
 with ills for us all, but they are made much worse by yielding 
 to them — therefore, courage ! and hope for better days " 
 
 " You may depend upon having all the third Number 
 \^Natwnal Melodies] before the end of June." " I doubt 
 whether the Irish Melodies would be practicable if I stay in 
 Paris. I promise you, however, before the cud of the year, a 
 sort of Musical Tour, made up of Songs and Poems, which I 
 think I shall make something catching of. As to any thing 
 about the King for the Oratorio, my heart would not go along 
 with it. Such things always. do me more harm than good, and 
 I have never ceased to reijret the Sony I threw away in the 
 same manner on the Duke ov WiiLLiNGxoN," 
 
 ./L ^i^^^"^ 
 
FiKsT bay's sale. 45 
 
 175 Four Letters, three 4to., one 8vo., 7th April, 3rd, 19th, 27th 
 June, 1820 
 
 " Fudge Family in Italy, which is not to jippear." The 
 Longmans have been as liberal and considerate under this dis- 
 appointment as they are indeed in every matter in which I am 
 concerned with them. I should like (if you have no objection) 
 to apply the materials which I have for the 3rd is\miber 
 [^National Melodies] to my little Musical Tour." " Pray tell 
 INIr. Croker that I am delighted with his excellent ideas of sub- 
 jects for the Irish Melodies, and that I will answer his letter in 
 a very few days." " I find your brother is about to publish the 
 words of all the Irish Melodies, and that Mr. Sullivan (who is 
 here and informed me of the circumstance) is to write a preface. 
 Mr. Sullivan, by the bye, tells me also that the reason of the 
 compromise between you and Sir John is the discovery of some 
 receipts which were supposed to have been lost by Stevenson, 
 and which enabled him to prove some parts of his case against 
 you more strongly than before. Is this true?" "I sent you 
 three songs by Lady Davy, and you have here two more," &c. 
 " My book, after all, is not to come out. You shall know lohij 
 when I write again." 
 
 1/6 Eight Letters, one folio, five 4to., two 8vo. (one of two sides), 
 l-.'th July, 2ad, 3rd, 4th, 18th, 21st, .'8tb, Slst August, 
 1820 
 
 La Butte. " I send you three more Songs, which will 
 make up the number of twelve National Melodies. I shall con- 
 tinue at intervals sending you more, in order that we may 
 choose the best, and shall do my best in order to get up a 
 number of Irish Melodies for you at the time you mention. 
 But I shall want Bunting ^ent over to me : do not, however, 
 send it till you hear further on the subject from me." " I am 
 at present living at but little expense, being on a visit to some 
 friends, with whom I dare say we shall stay for two months 
 longer." "As soon as I receive the Irish Airs I shall set 
 lustily about the 8th Number, and in the meantime I hope to 
 send you two very pretty Nationals which I have lately got." 
 " I send you a National Melody and an Irish one, which I hope 
 you will like, though you have become so cautious in expressing 
 your opinion of what I send, that it is a very long time since I 
 had the satisfaction of knowing whether you approved of them or 
 not. I shall go on now as industriously as my materials will let me 
 Avith the Eighth Number, though I must say that the difliculty 
 oi squeezing it out in this hurried way is such a-, under any other 
 circumstances, or for any one else, not six times the sum I am 
 to get for it would induce me to undertake, and I think you 
 know me well enough to be aware that this is no idle flourish." 
 '' The advertisement had better run thus." [O/* the Eiijlith 
 Number of the Irish Melodies being nearly ready for press, and 
 
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 the preparation of the letterjjress of the whole work in a Volume, 
 with illustrations]. " I send you two Irish Melodies and a 
 National one, which I think you'll own is very industrious." 
 
 177 Three Letters, 8vo , 3rd, 1 0th, and 28th September, 1820 
 
 " I have done one more Irish Melody since I wrote, and if I 
 am lucky in my operations, hope to be able to send you three 
 more by my next dispatch, which will complete the half oi our 
 Number." " I have been lucky enough to achieve the three 
 Irish Melodies in the time I said, which now gives us half our 
 Number, and they are all such as may stand. The other 
 Bunting will be a great reinforcement to us, as I think I have 
 exhausted my present forces. The weather is again delightful, 
 and we are s'till in our beautiful abode at Sevres." " I send 
 you three more Irish Melodies. I hope you will admire my 
 poetical description of the Poiteen \_D rink of this cup.'] It 
 strikes me that this number will be, contrary to my first ex- 
 pectations, a verv good one. I have received the Bunting by 
 Ellis." 
 
 1/8 Seven Letters, four 4to. (one of two sides), two 8vo. (one of 
 
 two sides), one 1 2mo. (two sides), 5th, 9th, lOth, 
 
 2Gth, and 31st October, 1820 
 " Mrs. Moore bids me tell you (what she knows you will be 
 glad to hear) that her sister has just been confined, and is the 
 mother of a little boy." " I send you our tenth Melody. 
 I shall be delighted to do something on the subject of O'Do- 
 noghue and his White Horse, but I have not by me the extracts 
 which Mr. Croker gave me relating to it. If he should not be 
 in Loudon to furnish you with them, pray get Weld's Book ou 
 Killarney, in which I believe the details may he found, and get 
 them copied out for me immediately. I have an air which I 
 think would suit the subject." " By last post I sent you an 
 Irish Melody. I am now searching anxiously for ari air, at 
 once spirited and melancholy, to which I may write some 
 words allusive to Grattan. Our National work ought not to 
 terminate without some remembrance of him. This and the 
 Song upon Donoghue will make the twelve. The materials of 
 the latter I look to you for." " I am getting on with my 
 verses on Grattan, for which I have been lucky enough to find 
 a suitable air. They will I flatter myself be no small ornament 
 to our number. I forgot to say that I think Mr. Crokcr's de- 
 sign for the Title very tasteful and elegant, and that I have no 
 change whatever to 'suggest in it." " I have copied out the 
 lines upon Grattan for you, but had not room for the last verse. 
 I shall send it to you however with the Music, by the next op- 
 portunity ; and hope to have the Song upon Donoghue for you 
 in the course of next week." Proposes writing verses for a 
 work the Music to be selected from Blangini's Notturnes. 
 
FIRST day's sale. 47 
 
 " I send you the remaining verses of the Donogliue Song. 
 Tell Mr. Croker that lie may put the young girl into his draw- 
 ing, standing beside the Lake and looking at the visionary 
 chieftain in the distance. 1 intend to say that one of the tra- 
 ditions about Donoghne is a girl having gone wild and thrown 
 herself into the Lake for love of him. You shall have IJlan- 
 gini the next thing. I have not been very well this week ])ast, 
 and rather think that the anxious struggle 1 am for ever kept 
 in between the importunities of society and the effort to l)e busy 
 is beginning to shew itself in the state of my nerves and general 
 health. Do you know that Lord John Russell has dedicated the 
 second edition of his last book to ine, and sigited himself my 
 • attached friend' This is truly flattering.*' 
 
 179 Three Letters, one 4to., two 8vo. (one of two sides), 6th, 13th, 
 and 20th November, 1820 
 
 * I have been obliged to tell Murray and Wilkie fairly, that I 
 cannot finish the Life of Sheridan satisfactorily to myself while 
 I stay here, and that therefore they must draw upon me for the 
 sum which they have advanced upon it. This is very magnifi- 
 cent of me, but how I am to manaye the magnificence is yet in 
 the clouds." " I send you the first verse of my song on 
 Donoghne [Of all the fair Months], You had better have a 
 sketch made from this subject, representing the Lake of Killar- 
 ney and a number of spirits both male and female, gliding 
 over it, strewing flowers around them, while a warrior on a 
 white horse is seen in a sort of indistinct, visionary way at a 
 distance on the water — Consult Mr. Croker about it. By my 
 next you shall have the Music of the Grattan Song, and per- 
 haps the remaining verses of Donoghne, but you can proceed 
 with the Sketch on the description I have given." " There is 
 going to be a grand dinner and ball here in commemoration of 
 Lord Liverpool's discomfiture." 
 
 180 Four Letters, 8vo. (one of two sides), 3rd, 14th, 18th, and 
 21st December, 1820 
 
 " My distractions here, in the way of visitors, &c. increase 
 upon me so as to derange very much my progress in writing. 
 You come off best of any of my employers, because it is that 
 kind of work which can be done at fits and starts, but the 
 great task (to which I look for a sweeping sum to meet my 
 Bermuda compromise stands still), and unless I can find some 
 quieter situation when my time in this house is expired, I don't 
 know what is to become of me. Yesterday Lord John Russell 
 and Lord Charlemont dined with us. Paris swarms with my 
 friends and acquaintances." "That paragraph in tl)e Courier 
 •was false. I had nothing to do with the proposal for a Public 
 Dinner that was in the Reading Rooms." 
 
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 181 Eight Letters, four 4to., four 8vo., 1st, 8th, 1 1th, 16th, ISth, 
 
 21st, 2.0th, and 27th January, 1821 
 
 Refers to "an accident which (thnugh of no great conse- 
 quence) has confined me to my bed for these three dajs past, 
 and may probably for a few days longer." "The tumour has 
 been lanced, and I have to day got to my sopha." " I have 
 been busy sending off recommendations for a man {Quere ? 
 Sheridaris hrother-m-laiv] who is candidate for an office at 
 Dulwich, and wrote to me to use my influence for him." " I 
 still feel a little weak after my confinement." " I iiave just 
 received an invitation to dine with the Duke of Orleans to- 
 morrow." " Tell Mr. Croker that I thank him very much for 
 his remarks. He is right as to ' agahi , it having been put by 
 mistake instead of ' once more,'' and you will have the goodness 
 to have the latter words inserted in place of 'again.'' The 
 other passage he has remarked is no mistake, but quite as I in- 
 tended it. It may be possibl}', however, obscure to others as 
 well as to him, and, therefore, had better be put thus 
 * howe'er the world may shake 
 It's inmost core,' 
 
 You will see that this is carefully done." 
 
 182 Five Letters, one folio, four 4to., 9th, 12th, 14th, 1.5th, and 
 
 19th February, 1821 
 
 "I have written to Stevenson by this day's post to say how sur- 
 prised," &c. " We are to have a great dinner here on Patrick's 
 day. I am to be in the Chair, and either Lord JMiltown, or 
 Lord Charlemont to be my Vice." " I believe I told you in a 
 letter some time ago, of my being introduced to Mr. Canning at 
 his own request. I dined with him again on Friday last," [This 
 letter received on the 14 fh February, is dated Jan. 8, 1821.] 
 " I wish, when you have an opportunity, you would send me 
 copies (handsomely bound) of the two Numbers of National 
 Melodies for Mademoiselle the Duke of Orlean's sister." 
 
 183 Seven Letters, four folio, three 4to., 6th, 9th, loth, 16th, 
 
 2.3rd, 27th, and 3()th Marth, 1821 
 
 " I do not quite like the way 'Thee, Thee,' is done. You'll 
 see my remarks on the music." " At the end of April we go 
 to our new cottage." Blan-ini's Notturni. " You need not 
 wait for an Advertisement to the 8th Number [Irish Melodies] 
 as, for reasons I shall tell you in my next, I do not mean to put 
 any." "Mr. Charles Sheridan will send you a packet, which 
 was undone at the Custom House, but the articles are to be 
 distributed thus. The workbox for your Bessy, the puzzle for 
 James, the yellow fan for Mary, and the white one to be folded 
 up and directed to Miss Tegart, Pall Mall, with Mrs. Moore's 
 compliments. I suppose you have no objection to my beginning 
 
FinsT day's sale. 49 
 
 another Number of tlie Nationals for you forthwith. Lord 
 Joliii, I think lives in Stanhope Street, but you can inquire at 
 Lord Tavistock's in Arlington Street." 
 
 18 4 Five Letters, one folio, two 4to., two 8vo., 5th, 12th, IGth, 
 24th, and 27th April, 1821 
 
 " If Perry puts in the lines I inclose (they are about Naples, 
 
 and dated Champs Elysees), pray send a copy of the ])aper 
 
 directed to Miss Dalby, Castle j)onington, Cavendish Bridge, 
 
 Leicestershire." " The book is magnificent, and worthy of the 
 
 most royal hands; though I almost grudge it to her Highness, 
 
 and shall at least have the showivg of it to every one else before 
 
 I let her have it." "1 was very glad to find my account with 
 
 you (for the first time, I believe) creditable for me in every 
 
 sense of the word." " As soon as Lord Byron's tragedy is out, 
 
 pray send it to me through Mr. Greville, — don't forget this." 
 
 185 Eight Letters, one, irregular size, five 4 to., two Svo. (both of 
 
 two sides). 1st, 3rd (two), 5th, 8th, 10th, 22nd, and 
 
 29th May, 1821 
 
 " I send you a National Melody, which I think you will like, 
 and pray keep Mr. Bishop's learning down as much as you 
 can." " My money goes from me most rapidly in this change 
 of residence." " We have been working hard at all sorts of 
 gaiety this week past." " I have just received a most flattering 
 letter from Mademoiselle d'Orleans, with the present of a clock 
 for my chimney-piece — so you see what the splendid binding 
 has done." "She [3/?55 Fovjer'\ dined with us yesterday at 
 our neighbours the Villamil's to meet some French Princesses 
 and Countesses." " Pray let me have Bowles's answer to 
 Lord Byron, just published — and will you tell my friend 
 Thomas Campbell (who I rejoice to hear is become very well 
 acquainted with you}, that I shall answer his letter by next 
 post." 
 
 18G Three Letters, one 4to. two 8vo. (one of three, the other of 
 two sides). 4th (two) and 10th June, 1821 
 
 Sends the additional verses to " Who'll buy my love knots ?" 
 " You seem to wish that I should work double tides this year, 
 and indeed my expenses here will make it necessary — for I am 
 still too near the shoal of friends I have in Paris, and the 
 hospitalities I am obliged to exercise (as Jane will tell you) 
 impose a tax upon me, which if I stay beyond this year in 
 France, I am determined not to incur again.' This letter 
 contains a most touching 2mssage. " As soon as I have got 
 through the fourth Number of Nationals, I shall I think attempt 
 something of the dramatic kind, we once mentioned, for private 
 performance." "I wish to have the duett, ' Our first young 
 love resembles,' (Blangini) dedicated to Mrs. Villamil," (of La 
 
 G 
 
50 FIRST day's sale, 
 
 Butte Coaslin). "Your brother's proceeding with respect to 
 the 8th Number is, to be sure, most daring." 
 
 187 Four Letters, two 4to., two 8vo. (one of two sides). IGth, 
 
 20th, 21st, and 29th July, 1821 
 
 " I take for granted this will find you still in Dublin." Mrs. 
 Moore has gone "into Wiltshire, to see my books deposited in 
 some safe place upon the giving up of our cottage there, which 
 will henceforth only be let with land — an undertaking I, of 
 course, should not wish to embark in." " I am sorry to find 
 that the double tide working which I proposed for this year 
 will press too hard upon you.'' " If I can finish pretty soon 
 a great work I am about, I shall have plenty of money this 
 next year." " I most anxiously hope that your business in 
 Dublin will be settled satisfactorily, and (what must be a great 
 object to you) speedily. '' " Between ourselves, I am just now 
 negotiating the sale of Lord Byron's Memoirs, which you know 
 he made me a present of, and which he is anxious I should turn 
 to account in a pecuniary way. I have asked two thousand 
 pounds for them. They would be worth three times that, if 
 they were to be published immediately, but they are not to 
 appear till after Lord B's death, which makes a great difference, 
 I am, however, determined to sell them to the best bidder. 
 This of course you will keep to yourself." Sends communica- 
 tion from Professor Momigney " who is anxious to be employed 
 by you." " I wish you to get me a few hundred more of those 
 papers for my books struck off." " I have not been able yet 
 to see Madame de Broglie, about Knyvett's Air (as he chooses 
 to call it). It was she who danced to it five or six years ago, 
 and called it a Cossack Dance. How long is Knyvett's Glee 
 published? Knyvett's originality is a ticklish subject, and 
 he liad better not make a stir about it." Note of introduc- 
 tion for Doctor Williams to Mr. Power. 
 
 188 Four Letters, three 4to., one 8vo., Cth and 13th August, 3rd 
 
 and l/th September, 1821 
 
 " As to the Air claimed by Knyvett, I have been able to 
 learn no more than I have communicated in my letter to you 
 some weeks since. But if his composition appeared but within 
 these three years, I can safely swear that I heard the Cossack 
 Air five or six years since. I will however write to IVIadame 
 de Broglio on the subject. I inclose six National Melodies, 
 almost all of which I think lucky ones — set Bishop to work." 
 " You are welcome back to London. I am not yet decided as to 
 the igcoynito trip I mentioned to you." " I mean to leave 
 this on my incog, trip about Wednesday next, so that I shall 
 arrive in London on Saturday or Sunday. You will lose no 
 time in sending the inclosed note to Rogers's housekeeper. 1 
 mean to sleep there but shall board with yow." 
 
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 189 Two Letters, one 4to., one 8vo., 2iid nnd 2'2iul October, 1821 
 
 " St. James's Place. Here I am again, and mean to come 
 to you as soon as I have written some letters." .si/jned T. Uvki;. 
 " I shall come to Buckingham Street, early, and will dine with 
 you, if it suits me." 
 
 190 Four Letters, two 'Ito., two Bvo., 2ud, 15th, 27th and 29th No- 
 
 vember, 1821 
 "Sahsbury, Thursday, four o'clock. I have been put out 
 of my accustomed line of Coaches by being obliged to pay a 
 visit at some distance from Calne, and though I have but little 
 doubt of getting a place in some of the Night-Coaches, yet as 
 ill luck may come across me, I just write this line to tell you 
 my situation in order that you may know whi/ I do not appear 
 at dinner, and prevail on J\Ir. Bishop to meet me at breakfast 
 on Saturday." " I send you the second verse of ' Bright be 
 thy dreams.' I merely have written the Notes, without mark- 
 ing the time as I do not well remember it." "I inclose the 
 last proofs. We certainly have no reason to complain of 
 Bishop's display of his science this time." " In my next I 
 hope to be able to tell you about ' Hark, the Vesper Hymn,' as 
 Madame de Broglie is in Paris." 
 
 191 Six Letters, one 4to.,five 8vo., 10th, 13th, I7th, 24th and 27th 
 
 December, 1821 
 
 " I have enquired of Madame de Broglie about the Air, and 
 she cannot give me any farther account of it than that she 
 heard it in France as a Cossack Air, and always considered it 
 as such. But I think you have nothing else to do than to 
 assert stoutly that it is a Russian Air, and let Knyvett prove 
 that it is not." Refers to Perry's death, " I am therefore 
 obliged to draw upon you through Lafitte, till I can arrange 
 something of the same kind with my friend Kinnaird, to whom 
 I write by this day's post." " Madame de Broglie is not an 
 Opera Dancer, but a Duchess, and it was in private society I 
 saw her dance that tune about seven or eight years ago. You 
 may call ' Row gently here,' a Venetian Air.'" " I send back 
 the proofs. These two Duetts are very beautifully done, and 
 the symphony to 'When first that smile,' is beautiful." "I 
 return the last proof with my benediction — may the work 
 prosper!" " You shall soon have some grist for the Musical 
 Mill." 
 
 192 Five Letters, one 4 to., four 8vo., undated (1821) 
 
 "Keep my coming as secret as you can— too many here 
 know it." " My Mother some time ago sent a bottle of eye- 
 water to you for me. I hope it has come safely to your hands 
 and that you will be able to forward it to me by some early 
 opportunity. Will you tell the Longmans to send to Villamil 
 by whatever mode they can manage it, ' The theory of the 
 
52 FiEST day's sale, 
 
 projection of Rockets by Colonel Congreve." "You saw the 
 poem of Lord Byron to me correctly (since you wrote) in the 
 Chronicle and Examiner." "I am at present working as hard 
 as the world will let me to patch up the work I wrote a year or 
 two ago (Ehymes on the Eoad) for publication this Spring, in 
 order to meet the heavy debt the Longmans have against me 
 and get rid of the Insurance." 
 
 193 Seven Letters, one 4to., five 8vo., (two of two sides) one[I2mo. 
 7th, 14th, -2 1st, 22nd, 24th, 28th and 31st January, 
 1822 
 
 With reference to Mr. Kinnaird — " You will see by bis 
 letter (which I inclose) that the sort of credit he offers me is 
 no additional accommodation whatever, as Lafitte just as 
 readily cashes my Bills upon you as they would on Ransom ; 
 and the only difference Kinnaird's plan would make consists in 
 its being more round-about and troublesome." I am at pre- 
 sent driven to meet more than my usual scale of expenditure — 
 so much so that I think it will be prudent (from every consi- 
 deration) to sacrifice two months rent of my lodgings and re- 
 turn to England in March instead of May as I first intended. 
 A good Summer of application in England will give me an 
 overflowing purse once more, and in the mean time I know I 
 may reply upon you to help in keeping my chin above water." 
 " I am not left one minute to myself here." " Will you have 
 the goodness to look among the books and things of mine sent 
 to you from Mr. Rogers, for a Manuscript book called ' Mrs. 
 Brown's Album, and send it immediately to iMurray. He and 
 I have got into a scrape about this trumpery volume," &c. 
 " Have you ever done anything about those MSS. of John 
 Brown's that are in your hands ? I hope you have got them 
 copied, as otherwise we shall be called upon for the originals 
 suddenly and lose them entirely. Indeed they ought to have 
 been in his sister's possession long before now." — "I suppose 
 you know Stevenson is in London." " I cannot do anything 
 here, and I mean to holt for London in about a month' or six 
 weeks." " How covdd you suppose, my dear Sir, that I meant 
 to compare what Bishop has done to your brother's piracy of 
 the Eighth Number ? I must have been very ingenious indeed 
 to find out any resemblance between the two transactions. No, 
 1 alluded to Stevenson's continuution of the Irish Melodies 
 with another Poet, for which both he and your brother (though 
 cast off by us) thought necessary to apologize to me, and I 
 compared it to Bishop's having done the vert/ same sort of 
 thing (though our ally) without thinking it necessary to make 
 any apology at all. As to his statement about Golding, I am 
 much inclined from what I have heard, to douljt it, as' I have 
 reason to think tliat the plan was arranged between him and 
 young Bailey in one of his last vear's visits to Bath." 
 
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 191 Four Letters, one 4to., two 8vo., one l2mo., 3rd and 
 
 February, -Uh and 21st March, 1822 
 
 " I seem destined to have all my little plans for quiet and 
 comfort disturbed. The Sniiths are leaving La Butte (Mrs. S. 
 not finding it agree with lier liealth), and now if I go to the 
 cottage it will be subject to the chance of being turned out by 
 the new tenant, whoever it may be. Meantime our furniture, 
 my books, writing things, &c. are gone out there. I know not 
 what to do, for I cannot afford to take any other place, and 
 this is full of inconvenience." " Few things could give me 
 more pleasure than those symptoms (however slight) of a re- 
 conciliation between you and Stevenson ; as nothing has given 
 nie more pain, since 1 knew you, than the interruption of har- 
 mony (in every sense of the word) which your difference with 
 him has produced among us. You will be sorry to hear that, 
 after having arranged for the retaking of our cottage, and for 
 Bessy's departure in about ten days in order to get it ready for 
 me, we have just learned that the ' old Victualler ' (as Lord 
 Lansdowne calls him) has again got possession of it, and we 
 are ousted, I suppose, for ever. This disconcerts my jjlans 
 amazingly." " I forgot last time to tell you that I had re- 
 ceived the 3rd Number, and like it exceedingly. I only hope 
 the public will be of my opinion about it. I have secured the 
 copyriglit \in France] of the words both of this and the second 
 Number by having a few copies printed." " Lord John 
 Russell receives and franks my letters for my Mother." " I 
 am still in hopes that I shall be able to start for England about 
 the latter end of next week, but it depends upon what the 
 Longmans do with respect to the Bermuda claim." 
 
 11)5 Five Letters, four 4to., one Svo., 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th, and 11th 
 April, 1822 
 
 " There is as yet no letter from Longmans, and I almost 
 fear there will be some obstacle to my going — at least to reside 
 in London." " Still no letter to decide about returning." 
 " Inclosed is the letter from Longmans, which you will see 
 dooms me to further banishment." " I mean to start at all 
 hazards for London about Saturday ne.vt, and shall set to work 
 with Bishop for you till it is finished. Siy nothing, however, 
 about my coming, as it mny perhaps be dangerous." " Not a 
 line from anybody— my lodgings are half dismantled. I h.'ive 
 just packed off my fine clock to be sent to England. My 
 rooms are full of packing cases ; and I have all the nncomforta- 
 bleness of going without being able to decide whether I shall 
 go or not. The person to whom the Yillamils have let La 
 Butte (Smith, Lord Carrington's brother) has offered us our 
 Pavilion for the summer in the kindest manner." " I mean to 
 start on Saturday — pray go," &c. 
 
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 196 Six Letters, three 4to., three 8vo. (one of two sides), 9th, 20th, 
 
 21st, 23rd, 27th, and 28th May, 1822 
 
 " Direct to me at ' La Butte CoasHn a Sevres, Paris.' " 
 " The worst of it all is, too, the delay and difficulty I find in 
 getting any sort of a quiet apartment to fly to. All are so dear, 
 so noisy, so diabolical. Curse the place altogether. I am 
 determined to make any sacrifice to be able to live in England 
 once more." " I have found a lodging for the summer (19, Hue 
 Basse Passy, a Paris) dear enough you may suppose, from the 
 season being so far advanced — but 1 was glad enough after all 
 my distractions to get anything." Stewardship at Literary 
 Fund. 
 
 197 Seven Letters, one ^to., four 8vo., two 12mo., 3rd, 6th, 17th, 
 
 25th, 27th, 2j-th, and 30th June, 1822 
 
 " I wish you would send to Longmans' for Keppel Craven's 
 account of the Revolution of Naples." " I am sorry to see 
 that Bishop's music to Coleman's Opera is not highly spoken 
 of. It seems, however, to succeed." " I have hardly strength 
 to hold my pen with the excessive heat of the weather. The 
 thermometer has been most of these days above 90, and if it 
 goes on increasing as the summer advances, I don't know how 
 we shall bear it." " I am just now writing 'post in order to 
 get a Poem out which I have begun (or rather begun to finish) 
 lately, upon finding that Lord Byron had taken the same sub- 
 ject, and I want if possible to have mine published before his 
 Do not say a word about this, as Longmans expect quite a dif- 
 ferent thing from me, and I do not mean to tell them how I 
 am employed till ready to go to press." " I have been revising 
 very anxiously the Sacred Songs, and I am sorry to tell vou 
 that it is impossible for me to let them appear as they are. 
 There must be at least five or six new ones to make this Volume 
 at all what it ought to be." " I am very quiet here and work- 
 ing away I trust prosperously." " I have had a most doleful 
 letter from Count de Lagarde," &c. 
 
 198 Four Letters, one 4to., three 8vo. (one of four sides), 5th, 8th, 
 
 12th and 18th July, 1822 
 
 " You know the way used to be that if I struck out a sym- 
 j)hony to my own Songs, well and good ; but that if not, Ste- 
 venson supplied me." Mentions his article on the Fathers in 
 the Edinburgh Review. " I forget the Number, but it is one of 
 the year 1817, I think." "You seem doomed to disappoint- 
 ments of every kind. That Air (which I had not the slightest 
 idea was Bishop's) has been floating in my memory for many, 
 many years." " I am glad that you are able to print Bisho])'s 
 air," &c. Thisletter, which is an exceedingly interesting 
 ONE, details the offer made by Jeffrey to Moore to become 
 joint Editor with him of the Edinburgh Review. " This would 
 
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 be, I understand, between seven and eigbt hundred a ye<ar to me, 
 and would not take, I should thuik, more than a month's 
 labour out of every quarter." * * * "I have had also, 
 withhi these three days, through Brougham, a proposal which 
 (though I cannot accept of it) flatters me exceedingly. It is 
 that 1 should replace the present powerful Editor of the Times 
 (who is ill) in writing the leading Article for that paper. It 
 was proposed to pay me at the rate of twelve hundred a year," 
 &c. 
 
 "199 Seven Letters, 8vo., 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th — 19th, and 29th August, 
 
 1822 
 
 ** Thank you very cordially for your last friendly letter and 
 the kind assurances it contained, which in my present situation 
 are, I assure you, very comfortable to me." " That letter 
 which you sent me by the post was the proposal from Brougham 
 I mentioned to you about the Times. It came quite sale." 
 " Soon after I received your notification of Bishop's arrival I 
 went in quest of him, and thinking Miss Stephens was a person 
 most likely to know where he was, I called there and left my 
 address for him. Accordingly he came out here yesterday, and 
 I find it is his intention to stay some time in the neighbourhood 
 of P.iris, though he talks of going 'for a month's shooting with 
 Kalkbrenner' about a hundred miles off. This I suppose, how- 
 ever, is only ' a flourish of trumpets.' I will try and keep him 
 to his intention of doing the Nationals here," &c. "Bishop 
 dined with us on Saturday to meet the Forsters, and we passed 
 a very agreeable day of it." " I had a long letter from Lord 
 Lansdowne the other day, chiefly on the subject of Sloperton 
 Cottage, which there appears another chance of our having, if 
 we chuse. I cannot resist quoting a paragraph of it, to show 
 you how very kind he is. ' / can onhj say that if an address 
 from all the neighbours of Sloperton could recall you, you 
 would speedily receive one, of the most cordial and affectionate 
 kind, and in which the inhabitants of Bowood would certainly 
 not be behind hand.^ " 
 
 200 Seven Letters, two 4 to., four 8vo. (one of two sides), one 12mo. 
 5th, 9th, loth, 17th, 2r)th, and two undated, September, 
 
 1822 
 
 " I am ver}' near the end of my Poem." — Bishop's eccentric 
 movements in Paris. His rapidity of composition exemplified. 
 Allusion to the " thoroughly Miss's Work, or (as we might 
 have called it) the Miss's Manual,"— (one song is perhaps a. 
 little too free) : " ' My heart and lute is also done.' " " I have 
 just heard from Rees, who tells me there is hardly a doubt of 
 my being free to come over to England in a few weeks hence. 
 "Whatever may be my steps with respect to taking of Sloperton 
 Cottage, I mean to pass the rest of next winter near London." 
 " I shall wait with some anxiety your answer to my last. My 
 
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 situation is rather puzzling. I could have the house I am in now 
 for six months more at so low a price as twenty pounds, which, 
 contrasted with the expense of moving to England, staggers my 
 resolves considerahly." " Pray inquire if my clock has ar- 
 rived." " As the time approaches for our change of quarters, I 
 confess the operation appears so formidahle as almost to frighten 
 me. I could manage to totter on here well enough, but the 
 radical clearing out from this and establishing myself anev/ in 
 England will take such lots of money as I know not how I am 
 to achieve. One of my plans of finance must be the drawing 
 upon you," &c. " I am literally on my beam ends \\\ the vray 
 of supply, and nothing but an economical country life and hard 
 work will riyht me again. As my task during the winter 
 months will he jnose (Sheridan's Life) I shall be better able to 
 work for you, than if it were (as has been the case lately) a 
 drain ou the poetical stores of my brain." 
 
 201 Eight Letters, 8vo. (one of two and one of three sides), — 7th, 
 
 1 0th, 14th, 20th, 21st, 24th, 28th Ocotober, 1822 
 
 " I am still suspending my final resolution till T hear from 
 the Longmans and from you more fully." " I have ventured 
 to tell the Longmans that I thought you would have no objec- 
 tion to join them in any arrangement they might make about 
 those Irish poems." " I am still without answers from you or 
 the Longmans with respect to the very urgent subject of my 
 supplies for going or indeed even for staying. Out of the last 
 hundred I was obliged to pay between fifty and sixty pounds 
 for a Medal of Grattan, [see Lot 3 1 6J, which I was rash enough 
 to undertake here, and by which (though I shall not ultimately 
 lose), I am for the moment inconvenienced a good deal." " As 
 to continuing the Irish Melodies, you so perfectly deserve that 
 I should sacrifice a little of my own judgment and feelings on 
 the subject to your wishes, that if it is really an object with you 
 to go on with them, I shall most readily consent to it, and (I 
 need not add) exert myself to make them as much as possible 
 worthy of their predecessors." 
 
 202 Four Letters, two 4to. (one of two sides) one 8vo., 14th, l/th 
 
 (two), and — November, 1822 
 " The Dinner to me has gone off most splendidly, and I am 
 now in all the bustle of departure." Sends three verses com- 
 mencing : 
 
 " Then be it so — if back to heaven." 
 And two verses : 
 
 " Come, pray with me, my Angel love." 
 
 Referring to a bill drawn on Mr. Power, Mr. Moore writes — 
 
 " By the time the Bill is due, I shall have, please God (and 
 
 the Angels), abundance to meet it. I mean to start in the 
 
 inornin}'." " You shall soon have Irish Melodies. I have 
 
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 come off very well with all the Reviews except that in the Lon- 
 don Magazine, whose violence luckily defeats its purpose — I 
 think I know the reason of this attack." 
 
 203 Seven Letters, 4to., six undated, one "Thursday Night," 1822 
 
 " I have but just time (having been all day at a ^Meeting for 
 the unfortunate Irish, where I have been ])ut upon the Com- 
 mittee) to inclose," &c. " I congratulate you on the decision 
 I have seen in the Paj)ers." " I have not felt quite well for 
 some days past, and a letter which my friend Lord John has 
 just brought me from the Longmans, and which shews how 
 very languidly and hopelessly the Bermuda negociation is going 
 on, by no means adds to my state of spirits. However, if it be 
 my doom to be an exde for the rest of my life, I must only 
 make up my mind to it — the only thing I am impatient of, is 
 the suspense." 
 
 204 Six Letters, four 'J to., with franks of the Marquis of Lansdowne, 
 
 John Benctt, and E. G. Stanley, two 8vo. (one of two 
 sides), 4th, 9th, 15th, l/th, 'i2nd, and 29th January, 
 1823 
 
 " Those abominable tailors did not send me my Coat for last 
 night's Fancy Ball, and I was put to great difficulties by the 
 want of it." " How famously my Angels are getting on ! In 
 about a week more they will have paid off my debt of 36 1000 
 to Longmans." " I am only apprehensive lest the efforts of 
 John Bull and such respectable leaders of the public taste 
 should succeed in raising a cry of impiety against it, which 
 (no matter whether deserved or not) is sure to do me mischief." 
 " I don't know whether i\Irs. Power told you of a plan I had 
 for a Collection of vocal pieces, to be set by different com- 
 posers — a sort of Soiree in the East, where girls of different 
 nations sing the songs of their countries." "I shall, as you 
 wish it, immediately set about rummaging my old stock of Irish 
 Melodies for another Number, and need not say that I shall 
 endeavour (for my fame sake) to make it as good as the mate- 
 rials left will allow me." " I am called upon to revise for a 
 ffth edition of the Angels. This makes fiOOO co|)ies sold in 
 little more than a month, and pays off my debt of aClOOO to 
 the Longmans. But I am still left pennyless amidst it all." 
 " You see I am in want of music paper, and have been obliged 
 to tear a pretty book — so send me some of all sizes." 
 
 205 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power. Three Letters, two 4to., one 8vo., 
 
 12th, 18th, and Sunday, February 1823 
 
 "I have made a very ^cf^/<e^/c duett of the Irish Country 
 Dance Cumwillian." "I wish you could get Stevenson over. 
 If you have any channel by which we could come at particulars 
 of the life of Carolan, Jackson, &c. it would be a very nice ad- 
 dition to our next number to prefix some sort of Memoir of 
 
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 those celebrated Irish Composers. Think of this, I shall write 
 to-day to Paris about it, as Sir J. Burke (who is now there) told 
 me, if I mistake not, that Carolan was piper or harper to one of 
 his ancestors." " Pray tell Mr. Croker, how much I thank 
 him for the Transactions of the Irish Society, and that I shall 
 be most grateful to him if he will keep me and the Melodies in 
 mind during his studies on the subject. I hope you are pleased 
 with the Review in the Quarterly. It will do the latter num- 
 bers good, in particular, and though I have never condescended 
 to quote testimonies from Reviews, yet there is one sentence in 
 this article which I think you ought to insert in your next Ad- 
 vertisement of the Letter Press Melodies. It is this ' We are 
 of opinion that the fame of JMr. Moore will ultimately rest upon 
 his productions in this style of writing ; because however great 
 his merit in others, this is the style in which he has never been 
 exceeded, and it is highly probable he never will be.' See the 
 last Quarterly Review." 
 
 206 Four Letters, three 4to. (one of two sides), one 8vo., 1st, 7thj 
 
 9th, and l/th March, 1823 
 
 " I must trouble you to make enquiries at all the Bucking- 
 ham Streets in London for me — the French Bed that was 
 coming to us (a present), and which was put on board at Calais 
 on the 23rd of December has never (that I know of) been heard 
 of since. It was directed I find, to Mr. Moore, Depute (Mem- 
 ber of Parliament), 22, Buckingham Street, without adding 
 Strand." " There will also be some things left at your house 
 from Paris, by Sadi Omback (a gentleman with a turban,)" &c, 
 " The poem you have marked in the Literary Gazette is an evi- 
 dent imitation of the Melologue, but not very well calculated 
 for Music." "In my last letter to you there were two impor- 
 tant things I omitted — one was my sincere congratulations on 
 the termination (and more than all, such an honorable termina- 
 tion) of your lawsuit in Dublin — the other was, with respect to 
 your wish of announcing a new Number of the Irish Melodies, 
 which I cannot of course have the least objection to." 
 
 207 Three Letters, one folio, one 4to , one Bvo., 2nd and 16th May, 
 
 30th June, 1823 
 
 " I have had a most stupid cold in head and chest since I 
 came down, which even this Summer weather does not seem 
 inclined to take away." " I am reading for my Greek work 
 which I shall get on with as fast as ])ossible. The correction 
 of the Sacred Songs is a most unlucky interruption to it, as 
 there is nothing I take so much time about as the dull work of 
 correcting." " I do not knoAV how my Fables are going on. 
 There were 3000 copies in the first Edition, and Longmans' 
 last week expected to be soon called upon for a Second. I 
 have never counted upon a great sale of this book, as the want of 
 
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 personality makes it much less generally attractive than my 
 former squibs. But I have presumed upon it to the amount of 
 between three and four hundred pounds and if it pays that I 
 shall be satisfied." 
 
 208 Four Letters, two 4to. (one of three and one of two sides), two 
 
 8vo. (ditto, and a song in 4 to. as an inclosure), I 1th, 
 IGth, I 7th, and 22nd July, 1823 
 
 Details accident to his pony carriage and party who were 
 driving in it. *' You have now tlie whole history of this trans- 
 action, and this fate of my first attempt at an equipage is I 
 think a broad hint to me that I never was intended for one." 
 *' As I rather think the year I am now entering upon ivill be the 
 last of iinj Lykic life, I shall try to put you in good humour 
 with me at parting, by making my farewell strains as many and 
 as good as I can." " I shall send you what I think, a very 
 pretty song, and (on the other side) some words which I began 
 and which (if Bishop will condescend to set them) I shall 
 finish." Sends three verses of 
 
 '* When Love, who rul'd as Admiral o'er 
 His rosy Mother's isles of light," &c. 
 
 " I have changed my mind about going first to London, it 
 would take so much more of my time and money (neither of 
 which I can well spare, that I mean to start direct from this for 
 Birmingham." I need not tell you that what I send is -not a 
 sacred song —it will speak for itself I think rather gaily." 
 Incloses four verses of " Child's Song," 
 
 " I have a garden of my own," &c. 
 
 " Let me know what you think by a line to 96, Abbey Street," 
 
 209 Two Letters, one 4 to., one 8vo. (two sides), Cork, 2nd August, 
 
 Sloperton, 29th August, 1823 
 
 " I left Dublin wilh Lord and Lady Lansdowne, on Wednes- 
 day. We slept the first night at Kilkenny, the second at Lis- 
 more Castle (the Duke of Devons'.iire's), and last night arrived 
 here." " I arrived here yesterday evening after the pleasantest 
 and most interesting five weeks, I have perhaps ever enjoyed. 
 The kindness and even enthusiasm with which 1 was received 
 every where in Ireland would flatter a person even less alive to 
 such tributes than I am. In some things, however, I was un- 
 lucky, and one of them was in the very cross accident of Ste- 
 venson's leaving town the very day after I arrived there on a 
 long and distant visit to some of his Whiskey cronies." " I 
 have not, I am sorry to sny, added to my stock of Irish Melo- 
 dies, but have however laid in a few recollections and feelings 
 about Ireland which will not fail to shew themselves in what- 
 ever else I may do upon the subject." 
 
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 210 Four Letters, three 4to. (one of two sides), one 8vo., 3rd, 12th, 
 
 18th, and 24th Septemher, 1823. 
 
 " I send you an Irish Melody, and one, I think, of the right 
 sort. On looking over my stock, I find I may proceed with the 
 9th Number, and as I know it is what you wish most, I shall 
 persevere with it till finished." " Send me a Copy of Hunt's 
 cheap edition ot the last ' Don Juan.' " Sends three verses of 
 "As Vanquish'd Erin wept beside." " I have marked the pas- 
 sage from which I think the two figures, both of Erin and of 
 the Demon, may be best combined" in an illustrative drawing. 
 (See Lot 327). "I send you an Irish Melody, a second 
 verse to ' Quick, we have but a Second,' and two verses of 
 ' They know not my heart,' which I have made out. I do not 
 know why this was set aside, as it is as good as most of them. 
 I have had a message from Stevenson through my sister to say 
 that he will bring over the Sacred Songs to me himself, as he is 
 coming to the Birmingham Music-Meeting. We shall see. 
 There are now seven Irish jMelodies done, and a month more 
 will complete the Number." " I shall send Croker's book up 
 to-morrow, as I think I have some more Music to be bound." 
 
 211 Five Letters, one 4to. (frank of John Benett), three 8vo. one 
 
 r2rao. 2nd, 9th, 1 7th, 21st, and 24th October, 1823. 
 " I should be delighted to be in town to see my friend Abbot, 
 but I am too hard at work to be any where else but where I 
 am. Tell him that I wish he could spare a few days to run 
 down to us." "I shall be glad if he will take over with him 
 to Dublin /re of those Medals sent to you from Paris. They 
 are, tell him, for Harry Bushe, and he will learn the best way 
 of forwarding them to him from Dublin. Give him my very 
 best regards. There are few more worthy persons." " Ste- 
 venson has not made his appearance, and I begin to fear we 
 shall not see him here. Indeed, when I gave him the things 
 to do, I had but slight hopes of his paying much attention to 
 them. Lady Bective is anxious beyond anything," &c. " I 
 have run over here (Pyt House) to our County Member's to 
 take a glimpse of Fonthill, whicli is in his neighbourhood, and 
 take advantage of his frank to tell you," &c. " You have here 
 a Melody, which (with ' The Banquet is over') makes, I believe, 
 the twelve. As some, however, of those I sent are but experi- 
 ments, I shall go on writing four or five more to secure as good 
 a set as I can." 
 
 212 Five Letters, two 4to., three 8vo. (two of two sides), 7th, 1 Ith, 
 
 15th, 21st, and 28th November, 1823. 
 
 Refers to a Ballad introduced into "M. P." " Every six- 
 pence I get goes to l-eej) (hum my bills here, and I shall not 
 have a quiet mind till they are all discharged." " Your present 
 from the Fish Market tempted me into asking our new neigh- 
 
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 bour (the rich Lord of Spy Park) to dine with us. He was 
 unkxckily engaged, but said he would come some other day this 
 week, So that 1 am in for what they call a ' blow-out' to him 
 on Thursday, and must, therefore, commission you to send me 
 by to-morrow's coach to Devizes, a Fish as good as that which 
 you so kindly gave us for Sunday last, and which was excellent." 
 "Will you have the goodness to call at Bicknell's (or Moore's 
 rather), the hatter at the corner of New Bond Street, and tell 
 him to send me a good Water-proof hat for the Winter, as I 
 have none but a White one, which in the month of December 
 looks rather poverty-stricken. It would be cheaper to buy a 
 hat here, but the truth is I have not so much ready money to 
 spare. Tell him to send an oil skin cover with it to keep out 
 the rain." A very curious passage loith regard to the arrange- 
 ments of Moore's Songs hxj Stevenson and Bishop. " In those 
 works of Campbell's and Bishop's you have sent me, both Poet 
 and Musician labour most painfully." " You have also here an 
 Irish Melody to an air which I have written out from memory, 
 but I am sure not correctly. It is one of Bayley's, and very 
 prettily done by him, ' O leave me to my sorrow' — pray send 
 me an accurate copy of it. My verses, of which there will be 
 a good many verses, are founded on an Irish story." ["-By the 
 FeaVs toave benighted.'~\ " I am going to give myself a day's 
 relaxation to-morrow with my friend Bowles to hear the Italian 
 Opera at Bath." 
 
 213 Two Letters, 8vo., 11th and 20th December, 1823. 
 
 " I send you three of the Sacred Songs which may be pro- 
 ceeded on immediately. I have entirely re-written the words of 
 one of them." " I send you three more of the Holy ones, which 
 I have been twisting into all sorts of shapes. I shall try and 
 find a good subject for Braham. The Sacred Songs ought to 
 be as much as possible arranged for single voices." 
 
 214 Five Letters and proof of Advertisement of the Music to the 
 
 Songs in Lalla Rookh, one 4to. four 8vo. (one of three 
 and three of two sides), one 12mo. all undated, 1823. 
 
 — " it contained a very splendid book published at Berlin, 
 respecting the Costumes worn at the Royal Fete, founded on 
 Lalla Rookh. I am grieved to the heart to perceive by your 
 last that this eternal and infernal law suit with your brother is, 
 after all, likely to begin again." " The cursed money, I fear, 
 will run short. I have been obliged to pay £40 within these 
 few days to one of the furnishers of our house, who was to have 
 waited till Christmas, but, being threatened with arrest himself, 
 I could not refuse him. I shall, however, make a hould push 
 to get to town. I hope you saw how kindly Sir J. Mackintosh 
 quoted the Fables at the Grand Dinner." "I shall look over 
 Callaghau's Melodies for the purpose you mention, but do not 
 recollect that there is any plagiarism, except of my general 
 
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 style." " I have entirely re-writteu ' Lord, now thy golden 
 Sun,' and the second verse to ' War against Babylon' is about 
 the tenth I have tried." "I have not yet decided whether I 
 shall have another verse to 'Lord of Heaven.'" "Many 
 thousand thanks for the :£300 — it was an enormous pull at 
 once." Bowood, Sunday. " I want twenty -pounds by return 
 of Post (if possible) to pay a Carpenter's bill I have been rather 
 dunned for." "I shall now send you alternately a Spanish, 
 Sacred, and Irish Melody. I wish," &-c. " I saw him but that 
 once, which was only for about ten minutes, in Catalani's dress- 
 ing room," &c. 
 
 215 Six Letters, three 4to. (frank of the Marquis of Lansdowne) 
 
 three 8vo. (one four and one two sides), 2nd, 11th, 
 — th, 17th, 20th, and 31st January, 1824 
 
 *' I like some of Bishop's Greek work exceedingly. He has 
 done Sappho's Song very much as I wished it to be done, par- 
 ticularly the Air part. The Glee, too, of ' The Sky is bright ' 
 is very happily imagined, but I must have some talk with hini 
 about the Symphony of it, whigh, to my ear, is not pleasing." 
 " We are rather in a fuss to-day, on account of an announced 
 visit from my friend Edward Moore, to dine and sleep. This 
 is not the weather for Town Dandies to come and see Cottages 
 in." " My time is sadly broken in upon, and the Lansdowne' s, 
 though very delightful neighbours, are very idling ones." " I 
 wish you would look for the books of Doctor O'Leary, and 
 send them to me." "I am very much pleased indeed with the 
 way the Irish ]\Ielodies are arranged, some of the symphonies 
 are quite beautiful." " I shall, I think, ask about ten days' 
 holidays from you now, as I want to get this Irish Pamphlet out 
 early in February." " I send you the song of Bowles's," 
 '' Take care of this Poem for me till we meet, and also of the 
 Music book, which contains the original arrangement ' Where 
 is your dwelling, ye sainted V This Music book is very pre- 
 cious to me." " I would not lose that book for a good deal." 
 " On the other side you have the first verse of the Mountain 
 Sprite." "I wish you to get for me, as soon as possible, the 
 Pamphlet of Hibernicus lately pubhshed." " I did not at all 
 expect to have the Irish Melodies come so thick on me, as I 
 thought we were to get the Sacred Songs out of the way first. 
 However, I suppose it is that infernal Stevenson who still delays 
 the latter. The lead will suffer for it, as I have material altera- 
 tions to make in those you sent me." " The title for Bowles's 
 Song is to be thus in \\\q front, ' Go, beautiful and gentle Dove,' 
 a Song from an Oratorio called 'the Ark,'" &c. "Thank 
 Croker for the books he has lent me, particularly O'Lcary's 
 Tracts. The last things of Hibernicus are of no use to me." 
 
 216 Four Letters, one 4to., three Svo., 6th, 15th, 20th, and 22nd 
 
 Febuary, 1824 
 
 " I think I have succeeded very happily in my second verse to 
 
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 ' Sing — Sing,' but do not consign it to the lead for a few days, 
 in order that I may have time to consider over it a little." 
 " How dreadful it is to think of your being again plunged into 
 all the horrors of law, by this disagreeable brother of yours." 
 " My friend Bowles thinks the verse I sent you the other day, 
 to ' Sing — Sing,' the prettiest thing I ever wrote. You will see 
 in the next Westminster lleview a very flattering and useful 
 Article about me and the National Melodies." " I am afraid 
 you sometimes think me not attentive enough to your interests ; 
 and it is true that my literary labours take also a great deal of 
 my attention. But what am I to do? My great delight would 
 be, if I could afford it, to confine myself wholly to Songs and 
 Music, but there are so many calls on me besides, that I am 
 obliged to labour a little at every thing. At this moment my 
 hand is so weary with transcribing, that I doubt whether you 
 will be able to make out this scrawl." 
 
 217 Five Letters, three 4to. (one unsigned) two 8vo. (one of two 
 sides), 2nd, Gth, 7th, 9th, and 13th April, 1824 
 
 Derby. " I came over here for a day or two, chiefly to 
 attend the Lancastrian Dinner, where my health was drank 
 three times three, &c., and where I literally electrified them 
 with * the Shamrock of Erin and Olive of Spain.' I have been 
 singing away here at the rate of two dozen Songs a night^ 
 excellent audiences." Dedication of Volume of Sacred Songs 
 to the Rev. Thomas Parkinson, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester, 
 Chancellor of Chester, and Hector of Kegworth. " I suppose 
 you saw the paragraph about the Captain in the Times. It 
 was most kindly and admirably done, and must serve the book 
 a good deal. I had a letter yesterday from Lady Holland, full 
 of praise of it. This is all I know about the matter as yet. 
 The Longmans wrote to me to correct for another Edition — 
 but I have not time, and besides, I doubt whether it will be 
 called for as soon as they think." 
 
 218 Five Letters, two 4to., three 8vo. (one of three and one of two 
 
 sides), IGth, — th, 19th, 24th, and 29th April, 1824 
 
 " I have had letters full of praise of my book, from Lords 
 Lansdowne, Holland, John Russell," &c. " I am delighted 
 to hear that jNIrs. Power likes my book, and hail her approval 
 of it as a good omen of its circulation among female readers, 
 whom I certainly did not much expect to interest. The pro- 
 mise is very fair at present, for they are going to press with a 
 third Edition." " I have been obhged to invite some people 
 suddenly to dinner on Wednesday, and therefore must trouble 
 you to dispatch me a dish of fish by to-morrow's Coach. >S'rt/- 
 mon I should prefer, but send whatever is best." " I have had 
 great difficvUty in finding pretty Airs to fill up our Irish Num- 
 ber, and have tried several with words without pleasing myself." 
 " Many thanks for the lobster and prawns, which were very 
 
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 much wanted for the second Course. They and the Sahiion 
 were very good." "All that Bishop can claim in the transac- 
 tion will be ' revised ' or ' corrected ' by H. Bishop. According: 
 to the first Title you wrote to this Spanish Glee, I am excluded 
 altogether from any share in the Musical part, though the 
 choice of the Air, the alterations in it (often so great as to 
 make the Air almost my own), the suggestion of the Harmony 
 and accompaniments, and, in short, all that gives character and 
 originality to the Music proceeds from me. This would not 
 be, in my mind, fair, and I must do what I can to put all 
 claim to it out of the question. If you think Bishop's name, 
 placed prominently, is likely to increase the attraction of the 
 Song, that is quite another thing, and I shall most heartily 
 yield to it, because, after all, attraction is the great object, and 
 I would not let any little vanity on my part interefere with it." 
 
 219 Three Letters, 8vo. (two with notes on the back), 1st, 3rd, 
 
 and 8th May, 1 824 
 " You see Eock is in the Third Edition. I should think it 
 has already paid all my arrears to Longmans. What a lucky 
 hit every way !" " Now you have I think the second verses of 
 all the twelve Irish Airs for this Number." " How long the 
 mechanical part takes! This I never sufficiently consider." 
 " The parcel for Bowles arrived safe and he is highly delighted 
 with the way his Song is brought out." " I wish the Captain 
 to have his fling before I draw on the Paternoster Bank again. 
 They are getting a Fourth Edition ready. I have had a letter 
 of thanks from the Catholics of Drogheda." 
 
 220 Six Letters, one folio, two 4to., two 8vo., and one 12mo., 2nd, 
 
 5th, 8th, 15th, 20th, and 29th June, 1824 
 •< I have left Croker's three music books," &c. Advertise- 
 ment to the Sacred Songs, respecting three melodies introduced 
 into the work from a publication by Mr. Gardiner. [See Lot 
 228]— with letter on the subject — "and you had better say the 
 ** same." " I did not mean the substance of the accompaniment 
 to be altered in the first bars, but merely the placing of the 
 notes in the chords, which did not look to me as if their tails 
 were turned in the proper direction — a thing I know very little 
 of myself, but about which I see arrangers are very particular 
 now-a-days." "I shall not forget the Princess Augusta; 
 indeed l' mentioned it to Lady Donegall before I left town." 
 "You will see that in 'Sweet Innisfallen,' I have restored a 
 passage in the seventh verse to what it was before." "You 
 saw what courteous epithets a Rev. gentleman at the Baptist 
 Meeting bestowed on Capt. Rock. This is quite right, and just 
 the effect I meant to produce." 
 
 221 Six Letters, one 4to., five 8vo., 2nd, 5th, 8th, 10th, 20th, and 
 
 2Gth July, 1824 
 Tears up a bill stamp hy mistake — " which is 4* 7il out of 
 
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 the pockets of myself and heirs for ever." "There is a Mr. 
 Baldwin, who writes to me ahoiit a poem of his on Fox, and 
 says you sent it to me a fortnight ago. In what shape is it ? 
 MS. or printed ? Those authors do so pester me, that I really 
 ought to have a secretary expressly to answer and to attend to 
 them." Have you read ' Rock detected?' there are some odd 
 things in it, and a few not had — but it is no answer." " If the 
 sheets of the letterpress of our Ninth Number are not printed 
 off, I should like to make an alteration of a word. In the last 
 verse, 'and doth not a meeting,' instead of 'Let sympathy 
 2)romise' I should wish ' Let sympathy pledc/e us !' " "I have 
 forgot always to ask whether you sent a copy of the Sacred 
 Songs to the Reverend Dedicatee — if not, pray do." "I have 
 found the looking over these Songs a more touyh task than I 
 expected, from the brutes attempting to put words under the 
 music. I never saw such hash as they made wherever they 
 could." " Send the inclosed immediately to Mr. Rogers." 
 " I have been looking over what is done of the Greek work, and 
 the only things worthy of being retained in it, are Bishoji'sglee, 
 ' The Sky is blight.' — His Song, ' When o'er her loom the 
 Lesbian maid.' My own glee, ' Here while the moonlight dim,' 
 and one selected thing — the rest must be thrown out." 
 
 221 Six Letters, 8vo., 1st, 9tb, 13th, 20th, and 25th (two), 
 August, 1824 
 
 " Being obliged to devote generally one morning in every 
 week to answer all the begging letters, bothering letters, &c. 
 &c. from all sorts of paupers, and poets, and poetesses that 
 accumulate on me through the course of it, I inclose you a few 
 of them by this post to save the poor devils a little postage, and 
 you will have the goodness to see them safely put into the Two- 
 penny for me. Bowood is going to be full of all my town 
 friends, Rogers, Lord John, the Hollands, «&c. &c. so that I 
 shall be routed up sadly by them. You shall, however, have 
 your share of me next week." " I send you a song of my oWn 
 on the Balaika subject, which I gave Bishop and which he did 
 not quite hit my fancy upon." "I wish you particularly to 
 inquire where Catalani is, and give her husband this letter or 
 forward it to him if he is out of town. It is to ask him to give 
 us a room in their Hotel at S.alisbury for the Music Meeting. 
 * * * 'Y\\Qy did lodge at a wine merchant's (a Frenchman) 
 in Pall Mall — at all events my friend Edward Moore in Cleve- 
 land Row would be able to tell you where they are." " As we 
 are to have the christening of little Bustle (as we call him) on 
 Saturday, I shall trouble you to send down I:)y Friday's coach 
 a couple of good lobsters which is all I think we shall want for 
 the luncheon." Lo}i(/leat (Marquis of Bath's) " I have been 
 run away with from home to this most princely place by a party 
 from Bowood, which may occasion some delay in my comnmni- 
 
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 catiou witli you." " I have been kept in such a whirl since I 
 last wrote, that, though I have contrived, in the midst of it all 
 to write a sona; of four verses, vet it is not in such a state fit 
 to send it to you. Some people are coming to dine with me on 
 Friday, aud I shall want some fish down by to-morrow's coach. 
 I leave it to yourself to chuse the best for me. Where do you 
 think I am invited to go next week 1 to Lord Bathurst's ! 
 rather not have turhot for Friday's dinner, as we have difficulty 
 in dressing it — but any other fish you find good, and enough 
 for eight people." 
 
 223 Two letters, 8vo., 6th and 1 3th September, 1824 
 
 *' You will perceive that ' Thou art not dead' alludes (under 
 the name of a celebrated antient Greek) to Lord Byron. I have 
 not been able to spare the time for Lord Bathurst's." " When- 
 ever you see the Longmans, I wish you would ask them for a 
 ring left with them for me." " I send you two things [more] for 
 the Greek work — one of them with music, which I rather think 
 will suit the young ladies -it had better, however, be set a note 
 lower." 
 
 221 Six Letters, three 4to. (one of two sides), three 8vo., 1st, 3rd 
 (two), 15th, 18th, and 20th October, 1824 
 
 " With respect to the lines to be engraved under the plates 
 \IX. Number Irish Melodies] I should like to have merely 
 ' Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well,' and under the other the four 
 lines. 
 
 'When will this end, ye Powers of Good,' &c. 
 
 let them be copied correctly from the letterpress. I was much 
 surprised to see the plate of the Dremou, as I thought you had 
 decided for the one flying up in the air." [_See Lot 327, for 
 original drawing]. Fish for seven or eight people and a good 
 lobster — " put a bottle of anchovy sauce in, as what we get at 
 Devizes is very bad. This is the last time, I hope, I shall 
 have to trouble you in the piscatonj line till spring." "Did 
 you see Shiel's flaming speech about me at Cork, on m}' health 
 being drunk four times four ?" " We have our friend Corry 
 from L'eland with us, so you may suppose I have not much 
 time for the moment to myself."' One side of the 4to. letter 
 relates entirel}' to Evenings in Greece. " If Captain Medwinis 
 as inaccurate about more important things as he is about the 
 circumstances of mv first acquaintance with Lord Byron he will 
 have a good deal to answer in various quarters. It is not my 
 intention to notice any thing till I bring out my own book." 
 Erratum in the Song, " And doth not a meeting," fourth verse, 
 for ' the friends we hold dear,' read the 'feio we hold dear.' 
 " You see how they are hacking and vulgarizing the subject of 
 Lord B. before I can come to it. Medwin's book, as far as I 
 have seen by the extracts, is full of inaccuracies — every thing 
 
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 he tells about me is wrong. You see he has even transported 
 little Tom to Venice." 
 
 225 Seven Letters, two 4to., four 8vo., one 12nio., 2ncl, .Oth, 8th, 
 
 11th, 17th, 20th, and 29th November, 1824. 
 
 Parcel for Mr. C. Sheridan, 22, Duke Street, St. James's. 
 " The Ninth Number I think looks very well." " I rather think 
 there is such a Song of Lord B.'s as you mention," kc. " Eye 
 water that is in the parcel by Lord Lansdowne," After an ex- 
 planation respecting expenditure, Mr. Moore adds, "I never 
 before had such a mountain of difficulties to cut through — but 
 as I feel my reputation was never higher, I do not despair." 
 " I am iia])py to see by an extract in the L'ish papers that the 
 Courier has (I suppose with some reservation) praised the New 
 Number of the Irish Melodies very warmly. You will tell 
 Bishop when you see him that I am perfectly satisfied with the 
 way the symphonies and arrangements are done." " I got a 
 beautiful air from Lady Pembroke the other day, and thought 
 it would suit English words, but I can make nothing of it, 
 though it haunts me through all my walks — no metre will go 
 gracefully to it." " I was obliged to give up Lady Pembroke's 
 air as impossible." " I have been already favoured with the 
 precious paper you sent me, from the Dublin Mail Office, and 
 am rather afraid from the tone of it that my friend Sir John, 
 at least, has something to do with it. I am glad to see they 
 are so annoyed — I mean those Orange scamps." " I have got 
 the Music of the Duenna." " I inclose a llussiau air (which I 
 got from Lady Pembroke) with words, and a Poem for Bishop 
 to set for the Greek Work." "I hear from Dubhn that the 
 sale of the Ninth Number is 'very brisk' there, and I trust you 
 have taken care to secure fair play for yourself in the yjrofits. 
 I see your brother has advertised it, with the addition of ' very 
 celebrated work.' " 
 
 226 Five Letters, four 4 to. (one of two sides), one 8vo., Gth, 10th, 
 
 12th, 13th, and 28th December, 1824 
 
 "• You may tell him \_BisJwp] that I am quite charn^ed with 
 his setting of ' the two fountains.' The words are not bad (for 
 me), and he has caught the feeling of them most successfully. 
 I would only suggest to his better judgment to leave out the 
 imitative passage on the words ' running side by side,' which I 
 own I don't like ; it would be much better simply.'" " You see 
 there is a good article in the Edinburgh on the Captain." " If I 
 could once get this infernal Sheridan work off my hands, there 
 is no doubt of my getting on flourishingly, for I am determined 
 now to try every thing, Novel, Opera, &c. &c. till I get over 
 my difficulties." Ax extraordixahy unsigned letter, 
 respecting the state of Moore's finances, and his specu- 
 lation upon his literary life, and means for living. — 
 
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 " I was beginning to waver about going up, but your letter and 
 one from llees have decided me. So that you may expect me 
 {not to a beefsteak, for I rather think I shall dine on the road,) 
 but to oysters and a glass of brandy and water between nine and 
 ten." " It is quite awful to see how the money sli])S out of my 
 hands here in Christmas bills." 
 
 227 Five Letters, two irregular size, three 8vo (one of two sides), 
 
 Tuesday, the others undated, (1824) 
 
 " Your Dedication is thought to be quite right. I would 
 advise, however, your asking some one whether ' To the King's 
 most excellent Majesty,' would not be more in form," " I send 
 you some lines which Lord Byron gave me * * * and if you 
 get them set and think it worth while, you may claim them 
 as property." " I see Bishop has published his other ' National 
 Melodies.' How do you like this ? The very thing that Stevenson 
 and your brother (though cast off by us) thought necessary to 
 apologize for in the case of the Irish Melodies, Bishop (though 
 our ally) has done without any apology at all." " I have got 
 rid of the poney * * * (and though it cost me thirteen 
 guineas) I have been obliged to give six pounds with it in ex- 
 change for a poney whose price is onl}' twelve. This is the 
 poor man's luck always." "I could not find either the air or 
 former words of' Castle Blarney,' but 1 have written other words, 
 which I dare say are better than those I did before." " I shall 
 be much disappointed if Stevenson does not come to me, as I 
 looked with certainty to o\xv fiuishing this number together." 
 " Castle Blarney will be a great beauty in the Number." " I 
 have written to your brother to say that I shall henceforth leave 
 the whole matter to be settled between you and him. My 
 friend the Rector here is going to call a meeting for a Petition 
 against the Roman Catholics, so you see what Orthodox society 
 I have got into." 
 
 228 JNIr, Gardiner to Mr. Moore and Mr. Power, two Letters, one 
 
 4to-, one 8vo., with Note in Mr. Moore's Autograph, 
 3rd June, 1824 
 
 Respecting two Airs taken from Mr. Gardiner's Sacred Me- 
 lodies introduced into the Second Volume of Moore's Sacred 
 Songs. 
 
 229 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power, three Letters, 8vo. (one of two 
 
 sides) 3rd, 16th, and 30th January, 1825 
 
 Subscription to Athenaeum Club. " I did not like the last alter- 
 ation of 'Thou art not dead,' and inclose it now in the state I 
 wish it to be. By the time he has made the slight change that 
 is necessary (and pray say how sorry I am to have given so 
 much trouble about it), I shall have a second verse for it dif- 
 ferent from that which it bears at })resent." " You'll pav the 
 two-pence on the inclosed letter — it is to one of those begging 
 
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 devils, who little know what a pauper they apply to. I am 
 ])estercd with letters of all kinds and from all quarters — Ame- 
 rica, Germany, France, and Birmingham. — The last was from 
 a young gentleman wishing to be em{)loycd as my amanuensis, 
 and asking what remuneration I could give him !'' " I have 
 been in the receipt of great honour and glory at Bath during 
 this last fortnight. The Speech I made at the Literary Insti- 
 tution (under the noses of two Bishops) made a great noise 
 among the natives there, though the Bath Newspapers have 
 (as usual) played the devil with my eloquence in their reports. 
 There were also allusions to me in the Prologue at the Ama- 
 teur Play which tried my modesty not a little." 
 
 230 Seven Letters, five 4to., two 8vo., 2nd, 4th, 8th, (two) IGth, 
 
 23rd and 24th February, 1825 
 
 " When I last wrote to you we were in great anxiety about 
 Phipps our neighbour, who had gone off to Havre to fight a 
 duel with another neighbour — symptoms of rural peace and 
 innocence. They returned after firing two shots each. One 
 of Phipps's balls having gone through his antagonist's hat, and 
 the last shot of the latter having produced a contusion on 
 Phipps's foot." "I can't find the second verse and be d — d 
 to it, so must wa-ite another." The Spring of Finance is run 
 quite dry with me, and ' as a Hart panteth after the water- 
 brook,' so do I after the water-mark of a Bank of England 
 Note. If you can spare me Twenty Pounds I will repay it in 
 JNIarch, when I must draw either upon Hook or Crook — that 
 established firm of all ways-and-means gentlemen." " I have 
 been wholly engaged these three or four days by a disagree- 
 able quarrel between two of our neighbours which you shall 
 hear more of in a day or two." Subscription to Athenseum 
 Club — Accommodation" Bills — " What the devil are we to do? 
 I have no doubt things will get much worse." " I now get 
 the Times for nothing." 
 
 231 Two Letters, 8vo., 14th and 29th March, 1825 
 
 " I send you a ditty of my own, which I think rather ori- 
 ginal. I hope you observe what a composer I have become 
 lately. I mean to persevere in it." "The Irish business never 
 before looked half so promising." " It is very unlucky that 
 Bishop should have delayed the Greek work so long, as I am 
 going to press with Sheridan and shall be hunted by the Devils 
 for the next two months. I think you had better make sure 
 at all events, of the National ^lelodies." " This life of She- 
 ridan has been a heavy mill-stone round my neck, and even 
 now I doubt whether I shall be able to have it out before the 
 season dies away." 
 
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 232 Five Letters, three 4to. (one franked by John Benett), two 8vo, 
 (one unsigned), Gth, 11th, 25th, 28th and 29th April, 
 1825 
 
 " Such quantities have I got to do, that it will be six weeks 
 at least before I can stir from this." " Herewith you have 
 (though I say it myself) a very pretty glee and the writing of 
 this as well as ' Ship, ahoy,' (which is the most popular thing in 
 my own singing I have done for some time) has put a plan into 
 my head," &c. "I am in great apprehension about my poor 
 father, and dread every letter from Dublin." [Mr. Moore's 
 father survived for so7ne months after this. He died on the 
 17 th December following, in Great Britain Street, Dublin. 
 See Lot 238. J " I have been at work for the Press since ten 
 this morning and it is now dinner time, when I hope I may 
 make up to myself by a hearty repast upon your excellent 
 mackerel, for which a thousand thanks." " My hand is too 
 tired to write any more." — "My great object is not to press 
 upon you more than is absolutely necessary, but by a sort of 
 hite-fiying process between you and the Longmans to keep my- 
 self afloat till better prospects open upon me. As there is 
 plenty of capital amongst us— on your side in credit and cha- 
 racter, on that of the Longmans in money, and on mine in 
 head it cannot be called mere 'paper work among us, and Vv'ith- 
 out borrowing from friends (which is the last thing I shall ever 
 be driven to), or sinking myself deeper with you and the Long- 
 mans than 1 should wish, I have no other mode of getting on 
 for this year." " This Sheridan work is a most heavy task and 
 it would now take me the whole of the summer to finish it as 
 I ought — but, though I shall be very late, it must be dis- 
 patched, now I am about it." "The sooner I have some money 
 the better." 
 
 233 Five Letters, four 4to., one 8vo., 2nd, 9th, I Gth, 22nd, 23rd 
 
 May, 1825 
 
 " I send you a very slight sketch of my Glee as I am not 
 able to write down what I mean. It is, I think, a very pretty 
 thought, but my musical powers are not equal to the handling 
 of it. Bishop would have made a fine thing of the words. If 
 however he will give a few touches of harmony and some bril- 
 liant symphonies to express the flying away and returning of 
 Spirits, I shall acknowledge them specially in the preface to 
 the Glee, and take that opportunity of saying what I think of 
 his beau talent. Tell him tjiis." " I had an idea of running 
 up for two days next week, in order to attend tlie Literary 
 Fund dinner, but it would not be prudent in any way except 
 for the honour and glory at the dinner, and my friend Mackin- 
 tosh in the Chair." "The ten pounds arrived safe, and was a 
 very welcome out-rigger to the £20." " I am just setting olf 
 for Devonshire to Dr. Bain, to make some enquiries about She- 
 
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 vidan. x\s the Longmans insist upon paying my expenses, I 
 hare the less remorse in taking the trip." " I did not get home 
 from Doctor Bain till Friday night and found myself so over- 
 whelmed with proofs that I have not been able to copy out the 
 Glee." " T want yon also to send me down by Tucsdaijs Coach 
 some salmon (if )iot too dear) and a lobster — enough for six 
 people. I am obliged to give a dinner to our new Parson on 
 Wednesday. If the salmon should be unapproachable send 
 one good dish of some other fish." — Sends second verse to 
 " Slumber, oh Slumber." 
 
 231 Two Letters, -^to., llth and 20th July, 182.3 
 
 " As I take for granted you are back again, I write a line to 
 welcome you, and to hope that you have had more fun than 
 your pill-garlick friend (still hard at work) has had in the 
 interval." " I was glad to find you had returned safely from 
 your trip into foreign parts," kc. " What weather it is ! it 
 quite disables me from business. I have had an awful proof 
 within these i^vi days of the uncertainty of life. On Monday 
 I was one of the pall-bearers at the Funeral of a gentleman of 
 this neighbourhood, and yesterday one of my brother pall- 
 bearers (a man of large fortune in this county) dropped sud- 
 denly dead in his own grounds, from the heat. Sudden death, 
 indeed, formed part of our conversation in the mourning coach 
 on Monday, and I rather think this poor man expressed (as I 
 know 1 did myself) a preference for that mode of dying. God 
 bless you, my dear friend, and preserve both you and me long 
 to our families and customers." 
 
 235 Three Letters, 4 to. (one franked " Lansdowne"), 2nd and 5th 
 
 August, and 29th September, 1825 
 
 " I want you to call at my last lodgings, 58, Jermyn-street, 
 and know from them if I can have the same rooms on Saturday- 
 next. You must say, however, that in this dead time of the 
 year, I must have them much cheaper, and if not shall go back 
 to Duke-street. Do not tell any one I am coming to town, for 
 though there are but few there, there are always enough to 
 pester me, and I shall be so busy that I must make it a point not 
 to stir out to see a soul before 3 or 4 in the day. A chop with 
 you at the latter hour will be often acceptable." With reference 
 to lodgings — " but I must now trouble you to secure those iu 
 Duke-street, any part of the house, except the garrets and par- 
 lours. If I cannot be accommodated there, pray go to 19, 
 Burv-strcet, and ask whether I can have the back rooms that 
 Tklr.Corry had — at a cheaper rate, of course, on account of the 
 time of year." 
 
 236 Five Letters, three 4to. (one of two sides), two 8vo. 7th, 9th, 
 
 llth, 13th, and 15th October, 1825 
 
 " I have been a good deal idled since I came home by living 
 
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 chiefly at Bowood, I hope, however, soon to send you two cr 
 three things which I have on the stocks. You see hy the Times 
 and Courier of yesterday that they have already hegun piUagiug 
 my work — what a gauntlet I shall have to run I Lord John 
 Russell has offered me a seat in his carriage to Paris, and Lord 
 Lansdowne offers me lodging in his apartments while there, so 
 that I really helieve (in order to get out of the way of the 
 critics) I shall accept this offer for two or three weeks. You 
 shall have, however, enough for Bishop to employ himself upon 
 during the time." " I hope you will find the game we send 
 good." Moore's great anxiety respecting the Life of Lord 
 Edward Fitzgerald — the handsome conduct of the Longmans, 
 " three hundred pounds more to m}' credit, in addition to the 
 original sum stipulated," &c. " I forgot to answer your cpies- 
 tion about the Sheridan Song — I would say," &c. " I have 
 made up my mind to go somewhere, but whether to Paris or 
 Scotland have not yet decided. I rather incline to the latter." 
 " Bessy had a taste of the fish yesterday. I was away at Bath 
 attending the jNLiyor's dinner to meet Lord Camden, &c. &c. 
 but to-day we are to feast together upon it. There have two 
 or three things happened rather to shake my purpose of going 
 to Paris, one of whicli is Lord John's change of mind on the 
 subject, and the other," &c. '■ As, however, I feel I shall not 
 be able to disengage my mind from Sheridan (being kept in a 
 perpetual state of excitement and fidget by the letters 1 receive 
 on the subject every morning) without some change of scene, 
 and as the Lansdownes expect me to join them at Paris, I have 
 pretty nearly decided on taking the journey alone," &c. 
 
 237 Three Letters, two 4to., one 8vo., 3rd, — , and 20th November, 
 1825 
 Edinb}(rgh. — " I arrived here yesterday evening, after a most 
 delightful visit of four days to Sir Walter. I really never was 
 before so much interested or pleased. His cordiality to me 
 was bevcnd what I could expect, and his cordiahty kept me in 
 a constant state of agreeable excitement the whole time. No- 
 thing can exceed the kindness I meet with everywhere. I am 
 to-day going to pass a couple of days with Jeffrey. They talk 
 of a Public dinner to me, but I cannot stay long enough to 
 accept it. You may easily suppose I have not much time for 
 letter writting, but I knew you would be anxious to hear of my 
 arrival in Edinburgh," &c. *' I am afraid the medley I inclose 
 will puzzle Bishop," &c. " I arrived safe at home on Thurs- 
 day night, having been detained two or three days longer than 
 I intended at Edinburgh by an attack of cholera morbus, which 
 is very prevalent there. Not feeling very strong after this ill- 
 ness I was glad to get home as directly as possible without 
 paying my promised visits to my friends in Derbyshire. I 
 would not have lost my trip to Scotland for any consideration. 
 
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 In addition to tlie interest which rdl I saw there excited in mc, 
 the cordiahty and distinction with which I was received hv 
 every one has left an impression on my mind not easily to he 
 effaced. I am sorry to say, however, that hesides the remains 
 of my illness, I have hrought home a had cold with me, which 
 so stupifies me tlmt I can hardly see the paper while I write. 
 Strong temptations were held out to me to settle in Edinhnrgli, 
 hut the climate would hy no moans suit." " I shall now turn 
 to the completion of our Greek work and set of Glees as speedily 
 as possible." 
 
 238 Two Letters, one 4to., one Svo. (three sides), Gth and 12th 
 
 December, 1825 
 
 " In order to give yen an idea what our Greek work is to be, 
 I send you (hastily copied out) the Poetry that is to follow the 
 opening glee," &c. " It will, I flatter myself, be rather an 
 elegant work, and, as a thing to be read and smiy at the Piano 
 Forte, is likely to succeed." " I was just preparing to send 
 you off the inclosed and some more of the intermediate verses 
 for the Greek work, when I received a letter from Dublin 
 saying that my father is dangerously ill. This alas is what I 
 have long expected \_see Lot 2.'i3], and it hrings not only much 
 affliction but much embarrassment with it. I must be off for 
 Dublin to-morrow, and try what I can do to comfort mv poor 
 mother, who I fear is hut little prepared for the shock." " The 
 words written on the other side [for fust Evening in Greece, 
 with numerous corrections, some lines in 2)encil.^ I wish 
 Bishop to set for Voices and a Chorus." " I have sad scenes 
 before mc in Dublin, and shall require, I feel, all my fortitude 
 to bear up against them. God bless you.'' " Again, God 
 bless you and spare all those you love to you. Do not show 
 this letter to Bishop, but have what I say about business copied 
 out." 
 
 239 Four Letters, two 4to. (one unsigned), two 8vo., undated, 
 
 (1825) 
 
 " My old friend. Lord Strangford, has just caught hold of 
 me, and may delay a little my visit to yon." " I think the 
 success of my book has inspired you — you have written so 
 eloquent a letter. JMany thanks for it ! I assure vou among 
 the numerous tributes I have received on the occasion there is 
 none I value more highly." [Title of Song from life of Sheridan 
 in Mr. Power's autograph attached.^ " I send you the letter 
 I wrote, or at least begun to you on Sunday, which will be at 
 least a preparation for our conference on the subject of it. 
 Pray, look at Southey's letter in the evening's Courier — it is 
 quite infamous.'' " I slept like a top after my two beakers." 
 
74 FIRST day's sale, 
 
 240 Seven Letters and Notes (some curious), 8vo., and irregular 
 
 sizes, " Holland House, Sunday," " Tuesday Evening," 
 " St. James's Place, "Wednesday Morning," and undated 
 one, on scrap at the back "What time * * — 11 to go 
 dinner ? F. Burdett." (1825)? 
 
 " I don't know whether I left my engagement with you to 
 day loosely or not. I hope the former ; my impression is that 
 I said I would let you know whether I could come, and I trust 
 this is the case, as I should be extremely sorrv to have made 
 any mistake on the subject. The truth is, this establishment 
 [Holland House] breaks up to day, (the whole family setting 
 off for the next eight months to Paris), and they made it such a 
 point that I should pass the last day with them, that I could 
 not refuse. I shall call upon you to morrow." " Here I am, 
 and shall be glad to see you. If Murray shovdd be with me 
 when you come, I know you will not mind waiting * * " 
 I mean, if I can manage it to dine — because I think it is safest 
 — at least for a day or two ; but I may, perhaps, contrive to 
 come and sup with you." " My usual luck in never losing a 
 paper," &c. 
 
 241 Five Letters, two 4to. (one franked " Lansdowne"), three 8vo. 
 
 (one of two sides), 9th, 16th, 22nd, 30th, and 31st January, 
 1826 
 
 Dublin. " Just as I was ready to start last week, and had 
 reconciled my poor mother to parting with me, the wind set in 
 so strong from the Eastward, that, for four days no boat of any 
 kind could venture out, and the harbour of Dunleary is covered 
 with wrecks. The wind, however, though still contrary, is to- 
 day more moderate, and to-morrow evening I mean to sail for 
 England. You shall hear from me soon after my arrival at 
 the Cottage, where new cares await me, but where I still, at 
 least, have quiet and leisure, and be able, I trust, to work and 
 redeem myself." " I send you the introduction to 'Weeping 
 for thee' \_First Evening in Greece], and think you will say I 
 have seldom written better. The next, which I shall set about 
 immediately, will be, ' When the Balaika,' " kc. " How you 
 must congratulate yourself these times, on not having given in 
 to the Bill line like others. Poor Sir W. Scott is, as far as him- 
 self is concerned (for he had alienated his landed property to 
 his son on his marriage) almost ruined. He had nearly £"0,000 
 out in paper, to meet which he has nothing but the help of 
 friends, and he must now, like myself, work hard and live sav- 
 ingly. This is too bad and I grieve for him from my heart. 
 With respect to myself, if I but once knew how to get through 
 this year, I should have no fears about the next. But I cannot 
 work as I ought while my means of present subsistence arc so 
 uncertain." 
 
FIRST day's sale. 75 
 
 242 One Letter, 4to. (four sides), 20th January, 182G 
 
 " Sends upwards of eighty lines for First Evening in Greece. 
 The alterations in which as suhsequently printed are very nu- 
 merous and curious. " You will see by this tliat 1 have come 
 to the Pyrrhic Dance, I shall not he sorry if Bishop has not yet 
 done it, as I should like him to read over the verses that intro- 
 duce it." " The poetry you see is extending beyond my esti- 
 mate. I suppose you heard that the King ordered his liljrarian 
 Sumner to review me in the Quarterly. How I have escaped 
 this cannonade in the last number I cannot think ; but perhaps 
 they are keeping it for the llepresentative." 
 
 243 Three Letters, two 8vo., one 12mo., Sth, llth, and 2Gth Febru- 
 
 ary, 1826 
 " Didn't I write to you before I went to Dublin about a man 
 who pledged a music book with me and wanted a sovereign ? 
 what did you do about it ? " "I think I have at last hit upon 
 a glee, which, Avith a little coolc'mcj, will do to keep company 
 wiih the Watchman and the Ships." " Wliat a s{)lendid pre- 
 sent came down in the box ! All Scott's Works from himself 
 and from poor Constable." " That man has written to me 
 again for some money — the fellow who sent the Music-book. 
 What did you give him ? " 
 
 244 Four Letters, two 4to. (one franked by John Benett), two 
 
 8vo,, 14th, 17th, 22nd, and 2;th March, 1826 
 
 " You cannot imagine anything to come luckier than your sal- 
 mon— for we had that very morning been led into asking Colonel 
 Trevanion (a great friend of Burdett's who is on a visit to the 
 Phipps's), a- id had literally nothing but a turkey to give our 
 party, when your fish most seasonably arrived." " I have been 
 for a long time j)ast solicited from all quarters to ask your per- 
 mission for the printing of the Air, ' Mary, I believed thee true,' 
 in a Collection of Parodies that Lady Clarke is publishing." 
 *' Bishop's note is such an appeal, as I know (with you who are 
 so indulgent to us workmen, when lazy) will not fail to procure 
 him a respite, but it is, I must say, very hard upon you." "I 
 take this opportunity of sending the Music Book which that 
 begging gentleman sent me, which you may return to him if he 
 should happen to be troublesome." " You shall have my 
 answer about Carolau in my next." "There is a man has 
 written to me from Ireland, who says you are publishing some 
 airs of his — he is, I think a Professor of the Irish language. I 
 have mislaid his letter, and want to answer it j)ray let me 
 know his name and address." 
 
 245 Four Letters, two 4to., two 8vo., 1st, lOth, ITth, 2;>rd of 
 
 April, 18J6 
 " I have had a letter from Mrs. Arkwright about her Songs, 
 
76 FIRST day's sale. 
 
 which she is wilHng at last to pubhsh^but I am sorry for your 
 sake to say that it is on very different terms from those on 
 which I expected formerly to get them for you. She now 
 wishes to make a present to some friend of hers who is in want 
 of money (not me), and is accordingly desirous to get as much 
 as she can for the collection." " I shall be glad to do anything 
 with Carolan for our last Number of Irish Melodies that you 
 please — but it is a disagreeable looking thing, and nothing but 
 its curiosity and authenticity could gain a place for it in any 
 civilised publication. It may, however, be worth your buying. 
 It was but yesterday that I could hold up my head with any 
 thing like a feeling of health— but I am now a good deal better. 
 The life I lead here is too monotonous and studious for me, by 
 far." " I am now quite well again, and am going for a day or 
 two to Bath." "They talk of Stevenson's coming to the Bath 
 Anacreontic on Wednesday, where I asked him once before. 
 I hope it is true," " I have had a letter from Mrs. Arkwright, 
 who will jzo^ say what price she puts on the Songs." "Tell 
 him S^Bishop^ too when you see him, that I never before had 
 any idea of the beauty, the great beauty of his Music to my 
 Songs out of the Angels, till I heard them sung while at Bath 
 by his friend j\Iiss Wmsor, who is one of the most touching 
 and intellectual singers I ever heard. Don't forget this. 1 
 gave Sir John's health at the dinner, and they have in the papers 
 as usual misrepresented what I said — making me say that it was 
 ' /i/* H/M^ec that produced the popularity of the Irish Melodies!!' 
 There never was anything like the warmth with which I was 
 toasted and applauded." 
 
 246 Five Letters, three 4to., two 8vo., 1st May, 8th June, 6th, 
 28th, and;30th July, 1820 
 
 " I shall hope that by this time Bishop is crowned with 
 laurels, and ready to relax himself from his grander toils with 
 our bagatelles." " Our two Calne members dine with me on 
 Saturday, and I must have some fish ; don't send more than 
 will do for a dinner of six." "I only write one line to say that 
 I have just returned from a ramble of a week. I passed some 
 days at Lord Arundel's, and two or three more with my friend 
 Doctor Bain in Dorsetshire." 
 
 24 7 Autograph Musical composition by Mr. Moore, folio, and four 
 letters, two 4to. and two 8vo. 1st, I -4th, 21st, 28th, 
 and 30th August, 1826 
 
 Song of two verses introduced in first Evening in Greece, 
 
 " As by the shore at break of day." 
 
 Date of receipt and arrangement in Mr. Power's autograph. 
 *' I have just made a very hearty supper of your good oysters, 
 and drank your health, (by way of a treat) in some bottled 
 porter." "I wish you to buy me ' Southwood's Divine 
 
FIRST D\y's sale. 11 
 
 Government.' " " I send you what I think a httle gem in its 
 way for the Greek work. The air is from a collection of original 
 Greek dances, which a gentleman (a stranger to me), sent me 
 this last week, saying that as I was the Lyric Monarch I had 
 a right to all such waifs and strays, and that they must he 
 worthless indeed, if I could not ennoble them in my National 
 Melodies. By the bye, I don't know whether I told you that 
 I have had a pressing application from the person who pur- 
 chased all Garrick's papers the other day, to arrange them for 
 publication, and to name my own terms. I have declined." 
 " Benett has lent us his house [m Albemarle Street.] I 
 should not mind staying into the next week, (for purposes of 
 business) but that I have been ])ledged for months to attend 
 the Gloucester Music IMeeting with Bowles, who is the Steward 
 and Manager of it, and who has ordered some of my things to 
 be performed expressly for me." " I will take up the MSS. 
 and Reviews with me on Monday — the Monthly is not only 
 very kind but very well done." 
 
 218 Seven Letters, five 4to. (one franked " Lansdowne," another 
 "Auckland,") two 8vo., 2nd, 4th, I4th, 2Uth, 25th, 
 28th, and 29th September, 1826 
 " What I had to write about (and forgot in my last) was to 
 beg that you would call on Monday in Albemarle Street, and tell 
 the dirty old woman there, &e." " I am employed on the Greek 
 work, though (from something that has given me a good deal 
 of uneasiness and anxiety) I doubt whether I shall succeed iu 
 having it ready before the beginning of next week." Gloucester, 
 " I am here in the midst of fine music and fine people, and 
 have only time to inclose you £5 — with a thousand thanks — ■ 
 Lord Lansdowne brought me and we are lodged together." 
 "I wish he [Bishoj)'] would imagine airs for both sets of words, 
 on the notion which they convey, and I would write new verses 
 to them." " I was very much pleased at Gloucester, besides 
 being a good deal flattered. At the Steward's Dinner, where 
 we had shoals of Tories (Duke of Beaufort, Lord Calthorpe. 
 &c. &c ) my health was the only one given with three tinies 
 three." "I wish if you can find out Taylor, you will tell him 
 that Lord Lansdowne v:iU subscribe to his book as well as 
 myself. Try and find him." " I have been kept in a state of 
 idleness ever since I left town, but am now about to turn in for 
 business dofff/edli/, and the Greek work shall be my first object." 
 " You will not forget the ' Divine Government' in your next. I 
 am asking some of the neighbours for next Saturday to dinner, 
 and shall have to trouble you with a commission for fish on the 
 occasion." " As I thought it possible you might not consider 
 my last letter a sufficient warrant for the dispatch of the fish, 
 1 send this to say that I shall be much obli(jed by your sending 
 me a dish for seven or eight persons by to-morrow's coach, (let 
 
78 FIRST day's sale. 
 
 your man put it down to my accomit). Turbot you know we 
 cannot well manage, but any thing else, good and cheap, if 
 possible." ^Yith reference to post-paying this letter, Mr. Moore 
 adds, " as it would be barbarous to make you pay for this fish- 
 letter, I shall act M.P. on the occasion." " I take the advan- 
 tage of a parcel to the Longmans to send you the MSS. with 
 which that cursed Irishman bothered me, and which are all (as 
 I have nearly told him) confounded trash." 
 
 249 Seven Letters, two 4to., five 8vo. (one of two sides), 9th and 
 19th October, 2od, 10th, 15th, 24th, and 27th November, 
 1826 
 " I shall be obliged to be in town for a few days about the 
 end of next week. Murray (between ourselves) is, I fear playing 
 me false on the subject of Lord Byron's life, and I have written 
 to Rogers to meet me in town as soon as he can, to bring the 
 shufiling fellow, if possible, to some definitive and ivriften 
 engagement." " I am going to pop in a note to Miss Drew, 
 which I hope will escape postage," [_The letter is charged 
 double.'] " In consequence of your letter and one which I have 
 just received from Mr, Rogers, I mean to start for. town to- 
 morrow morning. ]Mr. Rogers wishes me to sleep at his house, 
 but as I had much rather be independent, pray get me a bed 
 either at Mrs. Soane's or at that Hotel near you, where Mrs. 
 Branigan was for some time, I forget the name of it." Sends 
 three Glees. " I found all at home well, but was not suffered 
 to return immediately to quiet, being obliged to join the party 
 at Bowood, where I staid both Monday and Tuesday. There 
 is, however, to be a pause of company there for a month to 
 come." " I have corrected the MS. of the Poetical part, but 
 am not sorry you have had it printed, as I can always judge 
 better of what wants alteration in the letterpress." 
 
 " Many thanks for the fish 
 And your birth-day ivish !" 
 
 " That infernal Pyrrhic dance will still give trouble. It is not 
 at all what I wish." " The Song I enclose I have had for this 
 week past. It is written by a young girl of high fashion and 
 of a family celebrated for talent. [lion. Mrs. Norton .^] The 
 words have great beauty in them ; but the music I have not as 
 yet given a fair trial to. She wants to publish a set of them, 
 under this fictitious name (?), and she wishes (as every one 
 wishes now) to get money. I have been entreated to a])ply to 
 you, and I shall leave the rest to yourself. Only let me have 
 an answer such as suits the sex and fashion of the fair appli- 
 cant." " I have, after some consideration sketched out my 
 idea of the Pyrrhic dance in a way I think Bishop cannot mis- 
 take. I wish I could feel as sanguine about this work as he 
 does. AVe have done our best to make it elegant and creditable, 
 but that it will be popular with a public that's going wild about 
 * Cherry Ripe' is more than I can answer for." 
 
FIRST day's sale. 79 
 
 250 Seven Letters, four 4to. (one of two sides, and one franked 
 * J. INIacdonald'), two Svo. and one I'inio., ;^rd, 4th, 9th, 
 17th, 22nd, 25th, and 31st December, 1826 
 
 " I do not foresee that there will be any such corrections as 
 to require second Revises — a verj' rare thing in my printing 
 operations (1 mean the 7iot having many Revises)." " The 
 
 Pyrrhic dance will do — he has taken nearly note for note the 
 melody and arrangement I suggested." " The Longmans have 
 just proposed to me a plan by which (if it succeeds as they ex- 
 pect) I may make, they say, from five hundred to a thousand 
 pounds a year with little trouble. This is worth consideration." 
 " The Longmans have, in consequence of my representations 
 against the probable success of their plan, resolved, I believe, 
 upon giving it up ; at all events they see the justice of my 
 reasons for being unwilling to have anything to do with it. 
 There is a similar plan which in t/okt hands would be much 
 more likely to succeed, and, indeed (if it has not already struck 
 any music publisher) would be, I think, sure to succeed, and 
 I should have no objection to give you my name and assistance 
 in it. Say nothing of all this. It is not improbable that I 
 shall soon be obliged to go to town, for Murray is come all 
 right again, and promises soon to settle our business definitively. 
 You perceive that he now announces the Life of Lord Byron 
 with my name. If I go up, we can talk of the speculation." 
 " I am persecuted for an answer about the young Lady's Songs. 
 Do say something as to your inclinations or ^Z/sincliuations on 
 the subject. You can hardly I think afford to give anything 
 worth her accepting." 
 
80 
 
 SECOND DAY'S SALE. 
 
 On Friday, June 2Uh, 1853. 
 
 AT ONE o'clock MOST PUNCTUALLY. 
 
 251 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power, six Letters, one 4to., five 8vo. (two of 
 two sides, and one franked " Carnarvon"), 5th, 9th, 12th, 
 16th, 17th and 23rd Jpaiuary, 1827 
 Bowood. " This house idles me sadly, though nothing to be 
 sure, is better worth idling for." The packet you sent me by 
 the last parcel was a collection of Spanish Airs with a flattering 
 letter from a Gentleman of Cambridge." There is a famous 
 Article in praise of my Life of Sheridan in the forthcoming 
 Edinburgh Review." " Before this time twelve months my 
 Byron's Life will have put me I think out of debt and I shall 
 then I hope be able to manage my annual income with more 
 regularity and less loss." " 1 think it is not fair to keep you 
 in suspense so long about the plan I meant to recommend to 
 you, and which was suggested by the proposal of the Long- 
 mans to me to become the Editor of an Annual Volume of 
 Prose and Poetry like those that are at present so popular. 
 Now, though (as I told them) the numbers of this sort of pub- 
 lication that are in the market, with the addition of the many 
 more that their success will attract, would make a volume of 
 the same kind (even with the attraction of my name which 
 they seemed to count upon very much), rather a doubtful spe- 
 culation, yet it occurs to me that an Annual work of a Musical 
 kind, (a mixture of Music and Poetry) would have a very great 
 chance (with good embellishments, &c. and my name as Editor) 
 of distinguishing itself among the crowd, and becoming very 
 popular ; particularly if between this and next year the thought 
 should occur to no other Music Publisher. Think of this." 
 With reference to Mr. Moore's Glee of " Hi|), Hip, Hurrah," 
 then unpublished, which was sung at the Anacreontic dinner 
 at Bath, the Poet writes, " The Glee did wonders on Friday, I 
 really never heard of any thing so successful. There was a 
 distinct peal of applause after every verse, and we Mere obliged 
 to sing it again in the course of the night. Lord Lansdowne 
 and I M-ent together (having slept at Pearly Castle the night 
 before) and I had Lord Liverpool opposite to me at dinner. 
 
SECOND DAY S SALIC. b'l 
 
 who was amazingly civil, and asked me to drink wine with him, 
 &c. &c. lie expressed such anxiety, too, for a coj)y of the 
 Glee for Lady Liverpool, that I thought I might "(with all 
 sorts of injunctions as to not letting it out of their hands) 
 allow the Prime jNIinister to have one of the printed copies you 
 sent me, and the other for fear of accidents, I put into the fire — 
 so that ycu must let me have another proof to correct." 
 
 252 Four Letters, two 4to., one 8vo., one 12mo.,5th, 9th, 10th, IGth 
 Fehruary, 182/ 
 
 " I wish when you have an opportunity you would roiv our 
 Newsman, for he continually makes mistakes in the papers he 
 sends, giving us the Times, British Traveller, &c. just as it 
 suits his fancy." " That thundering rogue of a Xewsman sent 
 the Times again yesterday. Tell him it is the Chronicle and 
 only the Chronicle he is to send us." " I wish you to call, 
 some time within the next two or three days at Benett's, and 
 tell the old woman there that she may expect me on Wednes- 
 day evening next, and must have everything as clean as a neio 
 pin (mind you impress this on the dirty old witch) and the bed 
 well aired for me. As Benett (who has just lost his wife) will 
 not come up for some time, she may as well (tell her) give me 
 his bed-room which is airier and which I should like better ; 
 if any thing should bring him up, I can change into the other 
 
 room. 
 
 253 Seven Letters, three 4to., three 8vo., one 12mo,, Gth, 9th, 12th, 
 14th, 17th, 2.3rd and 27th March, 1827 
 
 " When you are sending my hats, there need only come 
 two of them, as I always keep an old one in town smartly 
 lined for the evening." ''What do you think of the division in 
 the Commons? It made my heart sick." ''Barnes, I see has 
 not taken the hint about the puff. I must pluck up courage 
 enough to ask again. My neighbour, Colonel Napier, who has 
 gone to town, has undertaken to make Jones do his best in 
 some design, to which I can write." " You see the Times gave 
 ns a little puff at last ; ver}' good and flattering as far as the 
 Poetry is concerned, but I wish that they had not said that the 
 Music was 'chiefly' by Bishop — because in the first {)lace it is 
 not true, and in the next, because I fear, between ourselves, 
 such an announcement will do us no good. Bishop having rather 
 lost ground. I have always told you that this work would not 
 do much, and I fear you will find me but too true a prophet. 
 But we shall pull up in tlie Annual !" "The following is the 
 Dedication which I send as requiring more time to get done 
 than the Preface. 
 
 To Mks. Jeffrey. 
 
 in rcinrmhrance of f/ie j^^easatif /tours jjassed at Craiy-Crooh, 
 v:ith her and my valued friend, her hus'jand, I have yreat 
 
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82 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 pleasure in inscribing the following worh. Tiio:mas Moore. 
 I have begged of Rees to tell you whether this is the way to 
 spell Craig-Crook." " I had had this Preface or rather a Pre- 
 face not at all like it ready to send you yesterday under a cover 
 to Lord Lansdowne — but just as I was folding it up I took it 
 into my head to alter it altogether, and I hope you will like it 
 in its present form." "You may guess how I'm bothered with 
 interruptions. Here has been a Mr. Teeling this morning all 
 the way from Ireland for the purpose of reading to me part of 
 a History of the Rebellion of '98, and I have been obliged to 
 ask him to dinner for the purpose — otherwise you would not 
 have had your Preface, nor the Printers to-morrow their proof, 
 if he had engrossed, as he fully intended to do, my morning 
 with his damned Rebellion." 
 
 254 Seven Letters, three 4to., four 8vo., 6th, 8th, 17th, 20th, 22nd, 
 
 23rd and 27th April, 1827 
 
 " I wanted to get rid of 'Old Nick' in the 'When Love,' 
 (as it would not quite suit female lips) and I think I have suc- 
 ceeded pretty well." "The Article in the Magazine is very 
 flattering, and (not much less welcome) the salmon was excel- 
 lent." " What comical work is going on in pohtics ! Some 
 thing good may come out of it." " I never again will have a 
 Dedication engraved." *' I have been all the morning with 
 Lord L — . Nothing yet settled. This between ourselves." 
 " lOUO thanks for the mackerel and for your good joke with 
 them." " \i the thing is done, it is of no consequence, but it 
 is worth nine pence to have a thing right, and I only wish we 
 could always have things right at so cheap a rate. I have been 
 with my neighbour all the morning — nothing settled yet, but 
 within an ace of it." " I hope you were amused with the 
 account of my annuity from the Times, j62000 a year. It 
 shows what some people think me worth, God help them !" 
 *' The following is the verse for ' The Garland I send thee' [a 
 most interesting letter, with three lines of Musical notation, 
 U7id'] " to give you some idea of the trials I make of these 
 things without hitting what I wish, I'll write one or two of 
 my experiments at this verse for you." 
 
 255 Eight Letters, one 4to., five 8vo. (three of two sides) two, 12mo., 
 
 4th (two), 11th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 26th, and 28th May, 
 
 1827. 
 
 Sends a verse of twelve lines : 
 
 " In yon leafy bower, 
 
 Through which the Moon peeps. 
 At this witching hour 
 A fairy boy sleeps." 
 
 " This is all pretty well, but the idea altogether was not so 
 
SECOND day's sale. 83 
 
 good as the other. You see there is now no doubt that Lord 
 Lansdowne is coming in. God send he may he able to do some- 
 thing for me ! I am ahnost tired of working." " You have not 
 said what you did with the verses I sent you from the Epicurean. 
 I now transcribe you the only thing hke a reguhir Song that it 
 contains, 
 
 " Oh, Abyssinian tree," &c. 
 
 " I am going to inflict upon you a tailoring commission for 
 me. My former poor snip is a bankrupt (as I have learned by 
 a demand upon me from his assignees for payment), and I must 
 accordingly proceed to break another. J\fy only evening coat 
 not being in a state to stand a dinner by day-light, I must have 
 one ready for me when I come up, and what I want you to do 
 is, to send the inclosed to Nugee in Pall Mall, and to take the 
 trouble of calling there to know from him whether he can, 
 without taking my measure, make a coat sufficiently well upon 
 this pattern for me. He is Washington Irving's tailor, and the 
 only one I know any thing of, beyond my own," &c. " You 
 observe the impudent publication announced of ' Rhymes of the 
 Times ?' Galignani had already done the same, with my name 
 to it, making an omission — gatherums of nil that everybody has 
 written in the Times for this year past! — ' I do not understand 
 enough about Sopranos or Tenors to know whether there is 
 much importance in the change of names, and only wish he had 
 left them simply. First, Second, and Third Voice." " I have 
 just had a letter from a Parish Clergyman, so far off as Natchez, 
 Mississippi, sending me a book of Hymns, and telling me the 
 pride he felt at seeing two of his Hymns inserted, as mine, ia 
 an American Edition of my Sacred Songs." " I hope you 
 didn't think the trash last week in the Times mine. I haven't 
 had time to send any thing to it for a long while." " The Coat 
 is to be bine, with yellow buttons, and to be exactly after the 
 pattern of the other— for, though no great things in the way of 
 fit, he would only make it worse by at all departing from it." 
 " The Salmon and its trimmings (the £20) arrived quite safe — 
 a thousand thanks." 
 
 256 Six Letters, three 4to. (one of two sides) two 8vo. one 12mo., 
 4th June, 3rd, 16th, 20th, 24th, and 30th July, 1827. 
 
 Domestic afflictions (which are explained) have retarded Mr. 
 Moore's annual visit to town. " Pray send the inclosed to Mrs. 
 D. Just off to Harrow." "I promised to meet Mrs. Shelley 
 to sing for her at 34, Strand, to-morrow at 3 o'clock." "Our 
 young neighbour. Lord Kerry, dines with us to-morrow, and if 
 I had had earlier notice of it, I should have thrown a line out 
 at you for some fish — but as it is, flesh must suffice." Sends 
 three verses of a Song ' The Painter to his Mistress.* [Query, 
 if published ?^^ 
 
84 SECOND day's sale, 
 
 " How shall T paint thee, mistress mine ! 
 How catch the lights that fly- 
 So changing o'er that cheek cf thine, 
 Or fix that spiritual eye ?" &c. 
 
 " I also send T. Cooke's Song, which will be one of your many 
 do-nothings.'''' 
 
 257 Four Letters, one 4to., three Svo. (one of two sides), 2nd, 1 0th, 
 22nd, and 30th August, 1S27. 
 " I have been employing myself in looking over all my un- 
 published Manuscripts, with a view to the lAIiscellany, and I 
 know it will give you pleasure to hear that there is a con- 
 siderable portion of materials which, with a little furbishing up, 
 will go far towards making out our first volume. This is to me 
 an unexpected discovery, and I lose no time in informing you 
 of it. You shall soon have the First Canto of an Eastern Tale, 
 in order to extract a subject for a design from it. I find too, 
 by mv memorandums, that Rees has got in his hands some 
 verse'translations of mine from the Fathers which were originally 
 inserted in the Notes to my Loves of the Angels, and which I 
 shall get from him for our work." " I also send you two things 
 I have done this week for the Miscellany — the first is a specimen 
 of a Series of Translations from the modester parts of the 
 ancient amatory Poets, which I have long projected, and towards 
 which I have a few things by me from Catullus. The other is 
 a lively thing from the French. I think the sketch you sent 
 me very clever indeed — but I am afraid the details of such a 
 subject would be dangerous to venture upon for such a work as 
 we must make ours. It might be done, perhaps, in prose." 
 " This lamentable death, though it grieves me deeply, did not 
 take me by surprise, I have looked upon him as a gone man 
 these two months past." "You have herewith the verses of 
 the Eastern Story, from which I think a design mi^ht be taken." 
 "There are likewise two more translations from the Latin, which 
 you will put by carefully." "They wanted us to stay for the 
 wedding, (his [^Benetfs] daughter is going to be married to Lord 
 Charles Churchill) but I could not spare the time." " I shall 
 keep the drawing to shew it to my neighbour Napier." _ "I 
 was going to say that the drawing which I send you back is so 
 pretty, that on second thoughts, I will write words to it. What 
 do you think ?" " As soon as I ascertain Lord Lansdowne's 
 movements (for he is expected down, and I believe I may add 
 out) it is my intention to take a trip into Nottinghamshire to 
 see Neivsteud and visit, by the way, our Derbyshire friends, I 
 shall then be able, I trust, to get Mrs. Arkwright's permission 
 to publish some of her Songs in our INIiscellany." 
 258 Five Letters, one4to., four 8vo., 4th, 10th, 16th, 19th, and 23rd 
 September, 182/ 
 
SECOND day's sale. 85 
 
 " I fim just setting off for Bowood, to ])nss a day or two with 
 the Home Secrctaiy, which, as far as I can yet learn, he con- 
 tinues still to be." " You shall have a long Prose piece from 
 me iu the course of this week." " I did not know that my 
 Prose sketch was so long — there is about as much more, which 
 you shall have by the next opportunity. I passed three days 
 at Bowood last week, which prevented ray sending it before, 
 and I am going there again to-morrow." " I trust I shall be 
 able to get through this next year, loithout doing any thing 
 more for the Times. This, betweeu ourselves. I want to devote 
 myself entirely to our Miscellany and my Life of Byron. We 
 are about to cut down our establishment to one woman servant, 
 which will make a difference, I think, adequate to * * * 
 in our expenses — not so much from the actu<il saving of what a 
 servant costs, as from the impossibility of compamj keeping 
 which it will bring with it." "I want now by next parcel 
 Lady Morgan's Life of Salvator Rosa." "You shall have the 
 remainder of the Paris Sketch, and something else, iu a day or 
 two." " I shall bring up with me all that I have for you, and 
 you will get ready any thing you want me to dispatch during 
 my stay." 
 259 Four Letters, 8vo., 3rd, 5th, 24th, and 29th October, 1827 
 
 Northamjiton. Directions respecting Papers left on the 
 mantle-piece in his bed-room. " I wish I could have brought 
 on that ill-treated bed with me. I shall hardly get so com- 
 fortable a one till I return to it again." " I am obliged to send 
 my new Coat up. It cuts me so under the shoulders that I 
 cannot wear it. Pray go to Nugee's, and tell them that they 
 must alter it carefully and immediately, and send it down 
 directed to me at lit. Hon. Lord llancliffe's, Bumiy Park, 
 Nottingham. Tell them that the tightness under the arms 
 makes it wrinkle both before and behind, and that I depend on 
 their altering it properly." Boivood. "I arrived at home 
 safe and sound the day before yesterday, and found all pretty 
 well. My journey was very agreeable, but (except in one 
 instance) not very profitable in the way of business. That one 
 instance, you will be glad to hear, was Mrs. Arkwright, who 
 has placed all her Songs entirely at my disposal ! Indeed, 
 nothing could be more prompt and unreserved than her com- 
 pliance with my request — so that we are well provided in that 
 department. I should like to have returned home to quiet 
 after my pleasure, but this place is now full of my friends, and 
 they have laid hands on me the instant of my arrival." '* I 
 hope you saw the account of my reception at the Ball at Chel- 
 tenham." " I take for granted you know Mrs. Shelley's ad- 
 dress." 
 200 Four Letters, one 4to., three Bvo. (one of two sides), Gth, 12th, 
 19th, and 2Gth November, 1827 
 " I am likely now to be left a little more to myself, and shall 
 
86 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 send you things oftener. Rogers has given me something for 
 the Miscellany, and my neighbour Paul Methuen has written 
 (wonderful to say) a very pretty and poetical thing for it. I 
 have much to say with regard to our plan, which, I think, must 
 be altered — Annuals have now become so common." "Did 
 you see there was an East India Ship, called the Lalla Rookh, 
 arrived ? The owners of it, I find, meditated giving me and 
 Bessy a party on board, had we not left town so soon." " I 
 send you also the continuation of the Sketches in Pere La 
 Chaise, of which you already had the commencement. You 
 shall have the conclusion by another opportunity, though it 
 is hardly worth while sending it, as I have resolved to write 
 a verse Tale on the first Anecdote, which is a most 
 admirable subject for such a purpose, and which, I think, I 
 shall make something very touching of." " The conclusion of 
 the Sketch of Pere La Chaise (which, I consider, one of the 
 best specimens of my prose style) &c." Betrays evident an- 
 noyance at the popular success of the Song of " Cherry ripe." 
 " Here is a duett that has cost me some trouble, both from the 
 number of verses, and their metre. But the air is very pretty 
 as well as odd, and, I think, will be liked. Pray send a copy 
 of the Evenings in Greece to Mrs. Shelley, No. ^\, George 
 Street, Portman Square, with the inclosed note." 
 
 261 Six Letters, 8vo. (two of two sides, one a very curious letter), 
 5th, I2th, 15th, 20th, 21st, and 28th December, 182/ 
 
 " I mean to write a set of Six Legends — this and the duett I 
 sent last (the Leaf and the Fountain), forming two of them. 
 The name may perhaps have some attraction in it. I grieve to 
 hear of your heavy Law bills, and hope, before long, that you 
 will be at rest from such expenses." " I have been thinking 
 a good deal lately of coming to live in town, but, as yet, only 
 thinking of it. It would be as well, however, if you had an eye 
 about for a small house for me. Somewhere ou the verge of 
 the Regent's Park (the verge nearest town), and not solitary. 
 I want to hit upon some good plan for a Periodical between 
 me and you, that would turn in the Coppers." " I have suc- 
 ceeded in establishing a Post at Bromham, a most desirable 
 thing, as you know. I have always had to send five miles for 
 my letters, and have been rarely able to ansioer the same day. 
 The only thing is, that you will have to pay lOrf for my letters, 
 and a pcnnj- on the newspapers I send you. Do you mind this 
 latter tax?" "You have here the remainder of the former 
 Legend, and a Third, which I think pretty. There will be two 
 more verses of this, but they are not yet concocted. I have so 
 many letters to answer to-day, that I can say no more." " I 
 sent you a little packet through Croker yesterday. AVc have 
 a sad prospect before us for the Christmas," &c. " Recs tells 
 me they have printed off a fifth Edition of the Epicureau." 
 
SF.COND day's sale. 87 
 
 " All this illness before us nialvcs it, T fear, impossible for us 
 to have your daughter as we expected during tlie Christmas. 
 But ' what is deferred is not lost.^ I expect," &c. " You 
 have here another Legend, and like the former,'' &e. 
 
 2G2 One Letter undated (1827), and Sir John Stevenson to Mr. 
 Power, endorsed by him, 4to. and 1 2mo., April 1 8th, 1817 
 
 " I wish you would, when you have time, call at Ilookham's 
 in Bond Street, and bid him give you a Catalogue of his Circu- 
 lating Library for me, telling him that I think of subscribing 
 to it for a few months." 
 
 263 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power. Six Letters, four 4to., two Svo., 1st, 
 4th, 8th, 15th, 23rd, and 27th January, 1828 
 
 " I have had Heath and Reynolds down here expressly to 
 renew the offer of the s6500 per ann. They say the Keepsake 
 is beating all its competitors." " Hope you have been amused 
 by Hunt's cockney stuff about me and Lord Byron." " I send 
 you another Legend, and having written fourteen letters to-day, 
 have not strength for a word more. To-morrow I start for 
 Mrs. Robert Arkwright's, and expect to come away from her 
 like a bee, loaded with honey, you shall hear from me on my 
 way." Nottingham. — " I have been in a constant state of 
 locomotion, ever since I came into this neighbourhood, and 
 have met everywhere the greatest kindness as well as readiness 
 to communicate all the people here knew about Lord Byron. I 
 have indeed collected some very valuable materials, and hope 
 to find still more. To-morrow morning I start for Mrs. Robert 
 Arkwright's, and expect from my visit all sorts of treasures, 
 both Bijronian and musical, as Hodgson (Lord B.'s great friend 
 and correspondent) is to meet me there. My money is run 
 short," &c. " Mrs. Arkwright gives me everything," &c. 
 261 Seven Letters, three 4to., four Svo. (one of two sides), 9th 
 
 February, 4th, 10th, 20th, 22nd, 28th, and 30th March, 
 
 1828 
 " Send ten shillings for me to Gale Jones, No. .5, ^Vilsted- 
 street, Somers' Town." " Murray, the deuce is in him, has 
 not yet sent me down Miss Fitzclarence's music book which 
 I left with the things to follow me." " My sister has lost her 
 girl — her only chihl. How she will bear it I cannot imagine. 
 I know no more dreadful trial." " I have by to-day's post two 
 or three applications from some more of those cursed Annuals, 
 and the day before I left town a man thrust into my pocket 
 (though I took care to throw it out again) a draft for ) 00 
 guineas for the same number of lines in verse or prose. The 
 people will soon be annually mad." " The little parcel for 
 Hay don the Pciinter you will forward at your convenience." 
 " In my hurry yesterday I left out Bessy's little one-pound rag 
 (which" I would not let Gobbet get a ghmpse of for the world), 
 
88 SECONB day's sale. 
 
 and, lest you should suppose it lost, send it now through 
 I?enett. I hope you liked both the Pig and the Poem we sent 
 yesterday. What is become of the promise of Mrs. Duff's second 
 appearance ? I fear the Managers have (as I thought they 
 would) shelfed her." " What I write now'for is to answer your 
 question about Mrs. Arkwright's Song, which I omitted to do in 
 my two last. The stupid Pirates have said tliat the words are 
 by her, and the music by a Lady of distinction, whereas the 
 music is hers and the words by Tom Campbell. You have 
 perfect authority from me to whom she has given her Songs to 
 do anything (short of going to law) to the fellow who has pub- 
 lished it. By the bye, a great difficulty in our future use of 
 her Songs, will be the words she has in general selected, and 
 which are other people's property," " I send you the pro- 
 mised Legend," &c. " Miss Feilding is employed about some 
 sketches for the Legends, and wishes they should be litho- 
 graphed — what say you?" " You had better keep my French 
 papers for the parcels you send, as Croker 1 suspect will be 
 kept pretty busy soon." 
 
 26o Seven Letters, three 4to., four 8vo. (one of three sides), 4th, 
 Gth, 17th, 18th, 23rd, 24th, and 30th April, 1828 
 
 Glee of " The Watchman." " Your answer to Mrs. A. was 
 just what it ought to be. I am only sorry that the Songs are 
 not to be for our joint advantage on the cheap terms at which 
 I flattered myself we already had them. You will now be 
 obliged to give more for them than their sale (beautiful as they 
 are with her own singing) will ever repay you. I must say 
 that she would have done more fairly by me (liaving expressly 
 made me a present of the whole collection) as well as more ad- 
 vantageously by her own fame, if she had left the disposal of 
 them entirely, as she said she would, to me," &c. " Like all 
 other people, rich as well as poor, she wants to make the most 
 she can," &c. " I have been a good deal amused by a letter 
 YOU sent me, which comes from a Uookseller in Paternoster- row, 
 oftl'ring to negociate with me for the work which I am said to 
 have committed to the flames (vide, the X/s-terary Gazette of 
 last week), and saying that he will bear me harmless through 
 any legal consequences that may ensue !" "I have not been 
 able to do anything towards either selecting or composing the 
 remaining Airs for the Legends. Miss Fitzclarence's Collec- 
 tion turns out to be mere cvery-day rubbish." " You may 
 send through Croker as usual." " Li looking over my boots 
 and shoes to-day I miss an old pair of French boots with the 
 galoshes I used to wear with them, which are a great loss to 
 me," &c. " Miss Feilding, I find, will not let Newton or any 
 one see the designs till I come to town." " I shall not be up 
 till the end of INIay (unless the proceedings of Byron's Monu- 
 ment should call me up sooner) and should like to know whe- 
 
SECOND day's sale. 89 
 
 I'lier that time will do for my financial operations, wliich must, 
 I fear, be on somewhat a larger scale than usual, to carry me 
 through this year at all comfortably." " Murray paid last 
 week the .£3000 to the Longmans with interest upon a week or 
 two over the time he agreed to have paid it in." 
 
 266 Six Letters, 8vo. (one of three sides), 29th April (received 2rid 
 May), 3rd, 4th, !Jth, 13th, and 14th May, 1828 
 
 " I inclose you a letter (for your own private eye) which I 
 I have just got from Miss Feilding, and hope that there will 
 be no difficulty," «S:c. " You shall, however, have some time 
 or other a set of c/Zlight and humorous Songs, and I shall, I 
 think, take the Annals of the Fairies as my ground work ! 
 * Songs of the Fairies' would not be a bad title." " I have 
 to-day had a note from Newton who will do everything for us 
 we wish." "She \_Mrs. Dvjf] must have them by the ninth." 
 I am anxious to know what farther happened between you and 
 jMrs. Arkwright." Refers to " The Legend of Psyche," " 'Tis 
 the Vine," and " Love, Youth, and Age," as " unfinished." 
 " It is possible I may want help from you to bring me up, as 
 my pounds are 'ebbing fast away' — but I'll try and keep 
 enough for that purpose." " Lady Donegal has left 38, Berke- 
 ley-square, but you will hear there where she is gone to." 
 " You may send my French new.<papers, if there are any, 
 through Croker, as they do to read in going up." •' A ^*.") 
 note would not come amiss, but this you had better send direct 
 by post." 
 
 2C7 Two Letters, one 4to., one 8vo., ITlh and 2Uh June, 1828 
 
 " I forgot, the day I was with you at the Stationers, to order 
 some writing paper, which I am in great want of — pray send 
 me some (a ream will not be too much), and I should like half 
 a pound of sealing wax. The paper to be like this." " Think- 
 ing tliat you may want ' The Rose of the Desert' I send it u]) by 
 parcel, and shall inclose the Legends as I finish them, through 
 the Right Honourable (! !) ('roker. "You will have the goodness 
 to frank the letter to Genoa for me, and put the other in the 2(1 
 or send it, if you can, as there is an original letter of Byron's 
 inclosed." 
 268 Six Letters, four4to., two Svo., 27th June, 4th, 7th, If^th, 20tli 
 and 2oth July, 1828 
 
 With reference to the Morning Chronicle Newspaper. — " It 
 has become much better now that wc are leaving it." " I wish, 
 if you could think of it, you would bring n-.e two little Fire- 
 boxes (price 6rf each), from Jones's, 201, Strand." "I send 
 you all the words of all the twelve {Leyendnry liullu(h\ and 
 flatter myself that they are something better than ' Airs of Ilaut 
 Ton.' I never saw such a publication as that. I5essy and I 
 
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 90 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 laughed together over it for an hour last night, she exclaiming 
 all the time, ' pooi- Tom Bailey !' " "In the total dearth of airs 
 to which I am now reduced, I think of putting in execution a 
 plan that has often occurred to me of borrowing subjects from 
 instrumental composers, and manufacturing them in mv own 
 way into songs. For this purpose, though I should have," &c, 
 " I inclose you a scrap of a letter I have had from I>Irs. Ark- 
 wright's friend and neighbour, Hodgson. The passage that 
 precedes the scrap is as follows, after mentioning your offer of 
 25 guineas, he says, 'of course it was not worth her while to 
 accept such a pittance even if it had been proper to do so. 
 Finding that another publisher had offered 25 guineas for one 
 song (supposed to be Mrs. A.'s but not hers, nor equal to any 
 of her best effusions, I mean ' the Captive.')' &c. &c. You will 
 be the best judge what you ought to do." "I want you for 
 Napier to direct the inclosed blank letter to the Editor of the 
 Globe Newspajier, and have it put in the box at the office as 
 soon as possible." " Your answer was quite right, and I only 
 trust she will not be exorbitant." " My money is nearly defunct 
 (of its usual complaint, a galloping consumption), and as I 
 must have about sixty pounds to carry me over the next two 
 months, if it would not be convenient to you to lend me that 
 sum for the time, &c." " I have sent in my formal resignation 
 to the Times. They are getting so wrong on the Irish Ques- 
 tion that I could not consistently continue even my slight con- 
 nexion with them any longer." 
 
 269 Six Letters, four 4to.,two 8vo., 1st, 2ad, 13th, 18th, 28th, and 
 31st August, 1828 
 
 " I have been writing such shoals of letters that I have but a 
 minute to dispatch a word to you, to say that the £30 arrived 
 safe, both portions, and that we are full of thanks to you," 
 &c. " I want you (if you can possibly spare time before you 
 come down) to make enquiry for us relative to the ground in 
 the field opposite to us, which I told you we had our eye on as a 
 good site for a cottage, I had nearly given up all thoughts of it, 
 but something {beticeen ourselves) that Lord Lansdowne said 
 yesterday evening, when I mentioned the plan to him has re- 
 kindled my zeal on the subject." " I don't know whether I 
 before told you that, in refusing the proposal of the Longmans' 
 with respect to the History of Ireland, I mentioned to them 
 that as the price which was mentioned (^£500), I could get as 
 much from any of the scurvy annuals for a short Tale, curiously 
 enough a week or two afterwards I received actually an ofier of 
 ^500 for 100 pages prose or verse, £2b0 to be paid down im- 
 mediately, which, though a most tempting proposal and most 
 creditable to the spirit of the proposers, I shall be able to 
 decline." Miss Feilding's designs, — "Mrs. Arkwright's trans- 
 action with you has certainly more of the Spinning Jenny in it 
 
SECOND day's sale. 91 
 
 than I expected from her ; but the object for wliich she wants 
 the money is, I know, a good and kind one." " Lady Lans- 
 downe expressed great regret at your not coming tliat day. 
 The Feikhngs were there, and the fair artist wis very much dis- 
 appointed." "To-morrow I am off to the Sahsbury Music 
 Meeting, which I fear will be but a dull concern." " I have 
 been idling this week past at the Salisbm-y Music Meeting and 
 at Lord Carnarvon's, where I went with Lord Lansdowne on 
 his way to the Continent." 
 
 270 Five Letters, one 4to. (three sides), four Hvc, 3rd, 11th, 19th, 
 
 and 23rd September, 1828 
 
 " We are off I trust in the morning for Southampton." 
 " Our lodgings at Southampton are at a Music Shop ! Mr. 
 William Smart's, .^8, High Street." Sends two verses, with 
 Musical notation of 
 
 " Love o'er all unseen presiding." 
 
 " I returned from Southampton last night." " I have found 
 my table covered with all sorts of claims on my time and pen." 
 " I have been occupied almost ever since I came home in 
 answering the heaps of infernal letters I found on my return." 
 
 271 Three Letters, two 4to. (one of two sides), one 8vo. (of three 
 
 sides), 1st, 5th, and 18th October, 1828 
 
 '* I am deep in arrears to you every way. I ought long 
 since to have returned you your j£GO," &;c. " If these appear- 
 ances of War become serious I shall have occasion to coiiie up 
 to town to arrange something, with Croker's assistance, about 
 my Bermuda office, and then we shall have a talk upon our 
 Miscellany, &c. &c." " You will I fear think me extinct and 
 so I have been almost, at times, from anxiety and remorse of 
 idleness." " All these things coming upon me in my solitude 
 have disabled me from working, and I am behind hand in every 
 thing, except spending money, which goes at Southampton like 
 wild-fire." "I have this year an income before me (not count- 
 ing yoii, which will be all the other way) of sixteen hundred 
 pounds, so please God there is no fear." " I supj)Ose you 
 heard from Clark the trick the Keepsake gentlemen have 
 played upon me. Having offered me six hundred pounds for 
 my name, on being refused they took it for nothing. I ought 
 not to have been so lenient with them as I have been. The 
 Longmans' have, I hope, sent you my Squibs." 
 
 272 Three Letters, two 4 to., one 8vo. (four sides), 3rd, 9th, and 
 
 14th November, 1828 
 
 Miss Feilding's designs — expected soon back, "she is now at 
 her uncle, Lord Hchester's." Various commissions. "The 
 note is for Moore, the sculptor — I forgot his direction." " I 
 
92 SECOKD day's sale, 
 
 do not see why Bishop should claim the arrangement of Sphor 3 
 air, as he had the good taste to leave it exactly as it was, (with 
 the exception of a few notes of symphony), saying it could not 
 he better, which was very true." " There must be a complete 
 change in all our proceedings, though what, I have not made 
 up my mind to. Something neio must be hit upon, or we 
 shall grow 'flat, stale, and unprofitable' — three devilish bad 
 things." " I forgot to thank you for the nice fish, which is even 
 a better thing salted than fresh." " I have been asked to go to 
 Lord Jersey's on my way up, but I shall reserve my visit, I 
 think, till my return." 
 
 273 Five Letters, one 4to. four 8vo. (two of two sides), 9th, 13th, 
 19th, 24th, and 3Uth December, lb28 
 "You can have no difficulty, I should think, in telling which 
 is the old hat of the two. It is new lined —must be of a much 
 browner colour than the other, and is a particularly heavy and 
 hard hat, but will be very useful here to save my best one." 
 " The grand fish arrived safe, and the Grand Turk would not 
 be received so welcomely. A. merry Christmas to you and 
 yours." "I send you a beautiful air (and I think not ill sup- 
 ])lied with words), which will do for our Greek work." " The 
 idea I have now adopted for the beginning of our Second 
 Evening is a Masquerade — which will afford (when I can execute 
 it properly), a most beautiful ground work for all sorts of 
 lyrical subjects — but the truth is, I am now so hard driven to 
 get out my Byron within the season," &c. " I have the more 
 reluctance in asking you for so long a pause from work, as I 
 shall be obhged to make use of your name for three months on, 
 to bring me within reach of the supplies I shall then be entitled 
 to from Murray, and to have you so much in advance to me, 
 without any set off in work, is a very uncomfortable feeling to 
 me, whatever your good nature may make it to you." 
 
 274 Five Letters, and a fragment of Music ; one 4to., four 8vo. 
 One dated "Wednesday," the others undated (1828) 
 
 " One will do very well" (to meet Bishop), " I meant to have 
 come to you to-day, but the Duke of Sussex, whom I called 
 upon, took it into his royal head to read me a long pamphlet, 
 which kept me all day. I shall be with you, however, before 
 one to-morrow." "Many thanks for the fine fish! I think 
 you need not fear Wm. Spencer — but, if you like, I could 
 write to him - though I feel sure you may print the verses." 
 " I have had rather bad accounts of my poor mother's health — 
 but she is, by to-day's news better," "pray get me two or three 
 ])air of gloves at Gibbon's, Coventry Street, opposite Ilaymarket, 
 such as my last." 
 
 27j Four Letters, two 4 to. (one two sides, the other three sides), 
 one 8vo., one 12mo., 2nd, Ilth, and the 19th January, 
 1829 
 
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 " Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your very friendly assent to 
 my wishes. Be assured that I shall make up for lost time 
 when I again huckle to, &c." " I think the present order of 
 the Legends will do very well, only putting perhaps ' the Voice' 
 instead of the ' Stranger,' the former being a more elegant and 
 taking air (at least in my opinion) than the other." Annual 
 dance at Bowood. Si.v verses of eight lines each entitled, "the 
 true Gem." 
 
 " Said Love to Friendship ' Let us away 
 To yonder island shore— 
 'Tis fairy ground — it's soil, they say 
 With gems is sparkling o'er," &c. 
 
 Domestic afflictions. 
 
 276 Six Letters, three 4to., three 8vo., (two of two sides — a portion 
 
 of the other torn off), 4th, 13th, 15th— 24th, and 2Gth 
 February, 1829 
 
 Wishes for a set of proofs of the music of the Legendary 
 Ballads, " that I might be able to sing it to my neighbours at 
 Laycock Abbey." Dedication to the Miss FEildings. " You 
 are a lucky man in the health of your children." "You must 
 find out where Mr. Joy lives — he is a bookseller or publisher, 
 but too fashionable to put his place of abode." " It is a hard 
 trial," {a most i^uinful letter). " We felt the kindness of your 
 letter most thoroughly, and it is not impossible but we may 
 accept your very friendly oifer, for which both you and INIrs. 
 Power have our heartiest thanks. Indeed if anything could 
 console one for such a calamity, the sympathy and actual friend- 
 ship we experience on all sides ought to do so." " Do not 
 mention to people my coming, as there are but few I wish to 
 see." " In fact it would be folly to deceive ourselves with hope. 
 We must only go through with it and bear it as we can." 
 
 277 Six Letters, three 4to., three 8vo., 4th (two), 8th, 12th, 
 
 25th, and 29th March, 1829 
 
 "Many thanks for the fish," &c. Introduction to the 
 Legendary Ballads. Death of Anastasia IMary, only daughter 
 of Thomas Moore, Esq. " I write but to thank you for your 
 kind feeling note, and to beg," &c. " We shall drink your 
 health to-day as well as cat your good fish." " The name is to 
 be spelt as I have done it here with the E before the I. Lady 
 Elizabeth would never have forgiven such a disi)aragemcut of 
 the ancient name as the I being foremost." " I must again 
 put you to your old trade of house hunting for me. Dr. Starkey 
 and my landlord have come to an arrangement which still 
 admits of my cottage being rebuilt and made comfortable for us, 
 and with a much larger interest in it. We shall therefore turn 
 out for building purposes in a short time, and take some small 
 house or retired lodgings in or near town during the interval I 
 
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 am employed iu publishing (about three or four months). 
 After that we mean to pay our long promised visit to mv 
 mother, and I shall devote a few weeks to the poetical tour we 
 have sometimes talked of, for a tenth and last Number of our 
 Melodies." "The Lansdownes have very kindly offered us 
 their villa at Richmond after Whitsuntide, and it is not unlikely 
 we may go to it." 
 
 278 Four Letters, three 4to., one 8vo., 6th, 12th, 16th, and 1 7th 
 
 April, 1829 
 
 " I send you a sketch of a melancholy song I have done 
 within this day or two, and v/hich when retouched and im- 
 proved, will be one of the prettiest things I have for a long 
 time produced." "My expenses have been lately enormous, 
 and there are still more heavy ones before me, but, with a little 
 help, I shall pull through." Bowood, " I have come here to 
 work alone for a week or two previous to my coming to town,'' 
 &c. " I had gone pretty far in a more extended Introduction 
 announcing that this would be the last Collection I should pre- 
 sent the Public with (^excepting only a tenth Number of Irish 
 Melodies, and a second Evening in Greece), but, on second 
 thoughts, I believe it is as well not to tie myself down so 
 hastily." " I walked into Devizes yesterday (seven miles)." &c. 
 
 279 Three Letters, one 4to., two Svo., 1st May, 20th June, 24th 
 
 July, 1829 
 
 " I am ashamed of having given so much trouble about this 
 short advertisement," &c. Richmond Hill, " I wish, too, if 
 you have time to-day that you would make arrangements with 
 your Solicitor Clark for seeing as soon as he conveniently can 
 our old friend of the three acres, on the subject of the purchase, 
 — the less time we lose now about it the better, as the building 
 ought to be commenced as soon as possible." 
 
 280 Two Letters, one 4to., one 8vo., 8th August, 17th September, 
 
 1829 
 [JSIr. Moore' s residence at Richmond and M?'. Poioera absence 
 from London loill account for this break in the usual corres- 
 poiidenceJ] "I hope you are by this time returned safe home," 
 &c. " Here is an alteration in the end of the third verse of that 
 song I gave you, together with the fourth verse." See \_Second 
 Evening in Greece, the song commencing " Who comes so grace- 
 fullyr\ Brooks s, Thursday, "There is again a chance of 
 old Slopr 
 
 281 Three Letters, two 4to., one Svo. — and 29th November, 9th 
 
 December, 1829 
 
 " I thought to have taken the inclosed to you myself, but 
 having been the whole day sitting to Sir Thomas Lawrence 
 could not manage it." Directions about Abernefhij biscuits 
 and maccaroni at two shillings a pound from Morell's in Ticca- 
 
SECOND day's sale. 95 
 
 dilly." " I got down very agreeably, and find these apartments 
 made most wonderfully comfortable for my reception — such a 
 metamorphosis (since I saw them filled with washing tubs and 
 flitches of bacon) could not be conceived." 
 
 282 Four Letters, two 'J to., two 8vo. (one of two sides), 2nd, 14th, 
 
 19th, and 27th January, 1830 
 
 "You perceive we have lost our dear friend Lady Donegal], 
 one of the truest and most unchanging during a space of seven 
 and twenty years that it has ever been my lot to know. I now 
 begin to feel great alarm about my mother in this most trying 
 weather." Carpet slippers. " From an article in the Times 
 to-day I take for granted my book will soon be in the hands of 
 everybody. I feel somewhat in a twitter about it ; though 
 rather less than on other occasions, from having such a Hercu 
 lean pair of shoulders as Byron's to shift part of the responsi- 
 bility to." Hood's Comic Annual. " I have every morning 
 shoals of congratulations and eulogies on the subject of my book, 
 which seems to be doing wonders." Next week I shall be in 
 town." 
 
 283 Three Letters, one 4to., one 8vo. (two sides), one I2mo., 13th 
 
 and Ifith March, 20th April, 1830 
 
 " I was in hopes I should be able to be up in time for the 
 Shamrock day, as I should like to see how my brother Paddies 
 look after being emancipated, but every day here is so precious 
 to me," &c. " I am coming to London's hatefid den again." 
 " I have been so pressed and put out of my way for these months 
 past that I ' take no note of time,' nor of any thing else," &c. 
 Mentions "Weber's wild witch like style" of music. 
 
 284 Four Letters, three 4 to., one Svo., 27th July, 10th, 14th and 
 
 25th August, 1830 
 
 " I have been in daily expectation of receiving the things I 
 left for you to dispatch after me." " We have been now for 
 some days in our new cottage, and find it most dry and com- 
 fortable. There cannot be a nicer house for its size." " We 
 think of saihng the latter end of next week. You will see that 
 the Dublin papers have been rather premature in announcing 
 their ' distinguished countryman's arrival.' " 96, Abbey Street, 
 " We were most lucky in our weather, and I am now glad bevond 
 what I can say that I brought both boys with me — it has made 
 my mother so happy. Already every body remarks how im- 
 proved she is in looks." 
 
 285 Four Letters, two 4 to. (one two sides), two Svo. (one two sides), 
 
 4th, 5th, 17th, and 25th October, 1830 
 
 " Yesterday evening we arrived all safe and well at Sloperton, 
 our heads almost turned with kead mill e fealt hods, and my 
 pockets turned inside out with our expenditure. You never 
 
96 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 saw any thing like the enthusiasm of my reception every where 
 in Ireland. They have now set their hearts upon bringing me 
 into Parliament for some county, and had tliere been a vacancy 
 at this moment I could hardly have escaped the honour. Ste- 
 venson I did not see. He v/as confined with illness during the 
 first weeks of our stay, and though I called two or three times 
 I could never see him. He then set off for Lord Headfort's, where 
 we were asked to meet him, but in the whirl and multiplicity 
 of our engngements we were unable to compass it. By all ac- 
 counts the poor fellow is completely past his ivork. I am told 
 he says of his legs (looking down mournfully at them) 'Oh, by 
 G — d they are very good legs — but they won't walk.' You 
 must manage to lend me twenty or thirty pounds (the latter if 
 possible) for a few weeks, till I can put matters in train for 
 raising the supplies. I am (to use the slang phrase) completely 
 'cleaned out,' but shall now turn in for a long sj>ell of labour, 
 and have little doubt of being soon quits with you and all other 
 kind creditors. The building and this journey coming together 
 have been a fatal blow to my fii.ances." " The reason of my 
 not writing to you more than once from Dublin was very simple. 
 It was the same as that given by Joe IMaddocks to the Princess 
 of Wales, when she said to him, ' For why you not speak, ISIr. 
 Maddocks?' — ' Because Ma'am,' answered Joe, ' I have nothing 
 to say.' Not having been able to see Stevenson, 1 had nothing par- 
 ticular to communicate to you, and being in such a whirl both of 
 mind and body as caused me to neglect but too much one of the 
 most important objects of my visit to Dublin, I thought I knew 
 you well enough to feel quite sure that you would excuse any 
 omission of mere letter writing, &c." " I send you some more of 
 the Summer Fete, which will still spread out to two or three 
 hundred lines more. All good for your letterpress book. I 
 inclose also Lady Headfort's letter, which you will return to 
 me some time or other. You had already seen the mention of 
 poor Stevenson's paralytic attack in the newspapers." " I have 
 been passing three days with the Duchess of Kent and our little 
 future Queen at Earl Stoke Park, and we had a great deal of 
 music. The Duchess sung some of my Melodies with me better 
 than I ever heard them performed. I promised to send her 
 some of the Songs of mine she most liked, and I should be glad 
 if you would get them bound together (not too expensively) for 
 me to present to her. They are as follows. Meeting of Ships — 
 Indian Boat — The Evening Gun — Say what shall be our Sport, 
 (can you detach this from the Nationals?) — Keep your Tears 
 for me — The Watchman — I love but thee (beginning ' If after 
 all') — Reason and Folly and Beauty. She has promised me 
 copies of some very pretty German things she sung." 
 
 28G Seven Letters, four 4to. (one of two sides) three 8vo., 1st, 4th, 
 5th, 10th, 17th, lyth, and 29th November, 1830 
 
SECOND Day's sale. 97 
 
 *' I think it the most respectful way (as well as most mo- 
 <!est) to send only the songs she asked for." Sir John Ste- 
 venson. "I have been sadly interrupted of late — but it seems 
 my destiny." '• I wish you could get for me and send by the 
 first opportunity the Daily Diary or Remembrancer (I don't 
 know which it is called (at Bailey's I think, No. 9, Fleet 
 Street.) I want the large size at Gs." I have written a Comic 
 Duett for two Almacks Dandies (Male and Female) which as 
 soon as I have finished the verses that introduce it, you shall 
 have." " I wish you would send me by next parcel the last 
 number of the Belle /hsemblee and any French Magazine that 
 niiiy be about fashions, as I want to dress my two Dandy people 
 properly." " I was in hope of a letter from you this morning 
 to say whether dear Tom was (as well as his Majesty) prevented 
 by the Ministers from coming out. What a farce (a tragical 
 one) the great Duke has made of it." " I send you the cor- 
 rected music and 100 lines more of the Summer Fete." — " You 
 will be a little startled, I fear, to see the instruments of War 
 I am sending to you, but it is for a pin-pose which I have long 
 intended, though the state of our neighbourhood just now has 
 put it more immediately in my head, I want you to get 
 new locks to these pistols for me, and whatever else may be 
 necessary to make them sound and trust-worthy. They were 
 given me some years since by a <:eriuine Sir Lucius O'Trigger 
 of my acquaintance, and my neighbour Napier says they are 
 excellent pistols, but at present dangerous (not to one's ene- 
 mies but one's friends) from the state of the locks." " I do 
 not fear the hundreds of poor devils that are congregating on 
 all sides, and whose aim is entirely (as it ought to be) against 
 the parsons and landlords. They are not likely to molest we 
 — but the stray stragglers from these great bodies and the 
 number of ruffians that will take advantage of this state of 
 things to rob and plunder are the evils that are most to be 
 dreaded through the long nights of winter, and if we stay here 
 (which it is just possible we may not) I should not like to be 
 undefended.'' " Since I wrote the within one of the locks has 
 broken off with a touch." 
 
 287 Four Letters, two 4to., two 8vo., 3rd, 10th, i 1th, and 23rd De- 
 cember, 1830 
 
 " I have done some more of the Fete, bringing in two more 
 of our stray Songs, so thnt there remain but three or four more 
 (if so much) to finish it." "We find the mould candles here j^o 
 bad that we wish to try some of your London ones ; and would 
 be glad to have a box down by waggon. By buying them for 
 me you can, I suppose, leave them to be paid by me. Best 
 regards to all your large little circle. The candles are to be 
 long fours." 
 
 N 
 
98 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 288 Two Letters, one Svo., one I'imo., undated (1830) 
 
 " Three or four days ago I wrote to Sandon (19, Bury Slreet) 
 to know whether his second floor would be vacant this next 
 week and he has not answered me. You could perhaps ' stir 
 him up with a long pole' on the subject to-morrow, as I am 
 rather in a difficulty about a lodging, and would not go to his 
 but from my hatred of strange places and faces." " I am over- 
 whelmed with devilish letters. — One of the inclosed is to the 
 Artists Proprietors of the National Gallery, who have applied 
 to me (on account of that ' taste which flows almost exclusively 
 from my pen') to write the dedication to their work to the 
 King. I have just despatched off another answer to an appli- 
 cation from York for me to write the inscription on a 
 monument they are erecting there to the seven young 
 people who were drowned ! There is no end to these applica- 
 tions," 
 
 289 Five Letters, two 4 to., three Svo., 2nd, 13th, 15th, 25th and 
 
 31st January, 1831. 
 
 " A merry new year to you and yours" — " To write a gen- 
 teel comic Song is no easy matter. 1 have tried at different 
 subjects till I am tired, and now have produced one that has 
 too much wit (at least what was meant for wit) for a Song. 
 However as tune or no tune I mean to keep it in — I send it to 
 you." "I am bleeding at every pore, in the money way. 
 Building and furniture, &c. is now running away with more 
 than a63U0, in addition to the s6200 I paid in the summer. 
 However once over it, and with £\S) a year rent, I shall ma- 
 nage perhaps to get into smooth water again." " Some you 
 cannot touch. But the Canadian Boat Song I certainly altered, 
 and so I did ' The last Rose of Summer.' My llomaika they 
 have stolen under the title of Sappho and given the name Ro- 
 maike to another Waltz in the same set. The Titles I should 
 think are fair game for you to fly at." Mentions his " high- 
 built nest" at Bowood. " I have been employed these two days 
 in routing up Irish Melodies, and think we shall be able to 
 make a very good show in the l(/th Number." "You shall 
 hear from me soon about Wade's MS." [See Lot 329.] 
 
 290 Four Letters, two 4to. two Svo., 8th, 10th, 17th and 28th 
 
 February, 1831 
 
 '' I shall have great cutting and slashing on the Slips" (of 
 the Summer Fete). " I have just heard such intelligence from 
 Dublin as makes it necessary for me to start immediately. You 
 shall hear from me on my road, or from Dublin. I fear I shall 
 hardly find my poor mother alive." " I know you will be glad 
 to hear that my dearest mother has rallied in the most extraor- 
 dinary way, and tliat I am able to leave her with the hope that 
 
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 she is in a fair way of reco\ cry. It has astonished every one 
 r.nd a great deal of it is eertainly owing to the vigour and com- 
 posure of her mind which exceeds any thing I could have ex- 
 pected even from her in such circumstances. I have seen jioor 
 Stevenson who is a sad wreck, hut still full of laugh and fun 
 (at least while I was was with him) and as much a Uandv a^s 
 ever — quite a Lord Ogleby." " Myself and my cold (which 
 still sticks to me) arrived here safe on Friday night finding all 
 pretty well at home." 
 
 291 Four Letters, three 4to. one 8vo., 6th, 10th, 1 1th and 18th 
 
 March, 1831 
 
 "What interesting doings you have up in town just now !" 
 " Pray look in the last (or last but one Evening Post) for a 
 letter of Arthur O'Connor's and put the proper Number to the 
 address of the inclosed which you must frank olF to-morrow 
 for me. It is to ask a question of him." Enquiry about a 
 watch. " As soon as my Lord Edward is oft' my hands, I 
 mean, before I commence any thing else to take a long spell at 
 Music. 
 
 292 Three Letters, two 4to. one 12mo. (two sides), 5th, 9th and 
 
 17th April, 1831 
 
 " I trust you will be able to hasten the publication [o/ the 
 Summer Fete] as I should like to have two such things as my 
 Life of Lord Edward and this gay poem coming out as near as 
 possible together. I want you to manage a little matter for 
 me in which we are both interested. A gentleman lent me a 
 set of Bohemian Airs," &c. 
 
 293 Four Letters, three 4to., two 8vo., 9th, 13th, 21st and 22nd 
 
 May, 1831 
 
 " I send you a most beautiful Air (which the Duchess of 
 Kent by the bye gave me) and which I have succeeded, I 
 think in matching with words most luckily." 
 
 291 Four Letters, one 4to., three 8vo., 1st, 3rd, Gth and "th July 
 1831 
 
 " In addition to the other brother I bequeathed you in com- 
 ing away, I wish," «&c. "I found all here very well." 
 "Thanks, my dear Sir, for the fine salmon, which I am within 
 half an hour at this moment of attacking " 
 
 295 Five Letters, 8vo., 13th, 17th, 1 9th, 2()th and 30th July, 
 
 1831 
 
 " Not to lose time I send you back tlie two proofs and 
 
 Horn's Song, which is, I think, very good indeed, and with 
 
 much more feeling than any thing of his I have ever seen. 
 
 We are just about to prepare for our Archery Fete to-day and 
 
J 00 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 looking very anxiously at the sky. Your supply of fish for 
 the occasion is most magnificent." •' I expect my Life of 
 Lord Edward will be out next week." " The proofs that are 
 in the Box you will throw by somewhere till I return to town 
 to destroy them." 
 
 296 Five Letters and a Song, four 4to., two 8vo., 2nd, 7th, (two), 
 21st, 22nc!, and 28th August, 1831 
 
 " I had just sat down to copy out two new things for you, when 
 Napier brought a Scotch friend of his to visit me, and I must 
 defer my task till to-morrow." " I hope your copy of Lord 
 Edward was among the first sent as I ordered." " I send you 
 the 4th verse of the last Anthology Song and words to be set 
 for our Second Evening in Greece. This forms one of the 
 groups or pictures I told you of — an Arab girl and her lover 
 conversing by signs in presence of her parents. He kissing a 
 lotus flower (which is the emblem of beauty among the Arabs) 
 and she holding up to him a small Mirror, such as the Arab 
 women wear fastened to their thumbs. You shall have the 
 verses descriptive of the same in the course of this week." Song 
 and Duett of The Lotus and the Mirror (unpublished) two 
 verses, 
 
 " Love hath a language of his own, 
 A voice, that goes 
 From heart to heart, whose mystic tone 
 Love only knows," &c. 
 
 The Longmans have sold nearly the whole 1500 of mv Lord 
 Edward, which will be, they say, about ^500 to the credit side 
 
 of my account, another 15o0 is what it ought to sell, but • 
 
 I fear it won't. 
 
 297 Five Letters, one 4to., four Svo. (three of two sides), 5th, 14th, 
 17th, 20th, and 26th September, 1831 
 
 " Have you yet looked out Napier's verses for me ? you will 
 know them by the odd upright hand writing, and let the ori- 
 ginal stay where it is, till I decide what I (or we) shall do with 
 them." " I have heard a good deal about my brother lyrist, 
 but he is not, I think, in the King's Bench." * * * "in 
 short the whole ' Butterfly bower' is blown in the air. Poor 
 devil !" " I have been engaged in a task which, of all others, 
 I dislike — namely, writing an Article for the Edinburgh Review, 
 having long promised the Editor I would give him one, and 
 wishing also to oblige the Longmans." " The Air was given 
 to me by Young, the actor." " Young lives in Pall Mall, I think." 
 " Pray pay the inclosed to Paris ; it is in answer to a communi- 
 cation from no less a personage than the King of France about 
 my book." " I am almost ashamed to tell you how pleased 
 J was with the things of m}' own you sent me. I had forgot 
 all of them but their names, and they come therefore fresh ui)oi\ 
 
SECOND BAY S SALE. 101 
 
 me. I have seldom, if ever, written anything so truly lyrical 
 as two or three of them are. I was also glad for another reason, 
 as two of them vvill come in most charmingly for our second 
 (and last) Evening, so that we have now at least five or six 
 pretty things towards it." " What you sent me is not Napier's, 
 nor was it, I think, among the things I gave you rvith Napier's; 
 for those were for the Miscellany, and this (which I inclose) was 
 merely given for you to have set hy somehody. Napier's verse 
 were, if I recollect right, with a little packet of verses, prose, 
 &c. chiefly of my own which I intended for the Miscellany. 
 Translations from Catullus, Sketches of Pcre La Chaise, 
 &c. There was also some verses of Luttrel's which are now 
 no use, as on understanding that I had given up the idea 
 of a Miscellany, he made a present of them to his Son, who 
 got twenty guineas for them from the Keepsake. Pray look 
 again for his verses. It shows how much better supplied I am 
 with words than with airs that (as I find by the MSS. you have 
 sent me) I have actually written two sets of words to each of 
 two airs — bigamy in Song completely. I must now find part- 
 ners for the discarded wives, which are both (though I say it 
 that should'nt say it) prettij." " I understated the duplicate 
 words I had written ; there were no less than three airs to 
 which I had put two sets of words each.' "What do you 
 think of Murray ? Besides the 8vo. Edition of my life of Byron, 
 which he has printed, he is going now to publish a small one 
 like the Wavcrley Novels to come out Monthly, with vignettes, 
 &c. My portrait, from Lawrence, to be among the engravings 
 — what enormous expenditure !" 
 
 298 Four Letters, one 4to., three 8vo., 2nd, 11th, 21st, and 24th 
 October, 1831 
 
 " You have here my attempt at setting ' Guess, Guess,' 
 \^pi'inted in Collected Edition of IMoore's ivor/is, until then 
 unpublished^ for our Greek work. I have not been able to 
 satisfy myself, but I think when Bishop and I meet, we shall 
 contrive to make something pretty out of it." "The Napiers 
 have been passing their last two farewell days with us, which 
 has interrupted me. I was very sorry not to have his verses to 
 give him, and cannot think why you have not sent them to me. 
 I have some little idea of coming uj) to town to take leave of 
 poor Sir W. Scott, who has expressed a wish to see me before 
 he goes. I am told he is a good deal better." " I had some- 
 thing to send you yesterday, but as you will see myself on 
 Wednesday or Thursday, I may as well be the bearer of it. 
 My chief object in coming up is to see Sir W. Scott before his 
 departure, and INIurray has also some matters to consult me 
 upon relative to the illustrations of his New Edition of the Life, 
 &c. &c. so I go to his house for the few days I stay. I was dis- 
 appointed in not receiving my Edinburgh Review which I suppose 
 
102 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 was sent to you. If so, open it and read ShieFs Article upon 
 Lord Edward, and also (as I know you are fond of the Church) 
 an Article entitled ' State of Protestantism in Germany,' which 
 is the one I told you I was employed about ; — but this you will 
 keep to yourself. I am sorry I gave you such trouble about 
 these verses of Napier's, but I felt quite sure they were among 
 the ISIiscellany Papers. I suppose I have them myself some- 
 where. I will see you if possible on Wednesday evening." 
 " I got down very comfortably," &c. " I want you to go as 
 soon as you can conveniently, to a book-shop in Piccadilly, not 
 far from Bond Street, and on that side of the way, which con- 
 tains books labelled with their prices in the window, and there 
 to buy me a copy of Bland's Anthology which I saw in the 
 window, but was in too great a hurry at the time to stop to 
 purchase it. It is marked 1 2 shillings, but you will, I dare say, 
 get it for less." "You shall have, by to-morrow's post, the 
 Dedication and Introduction to the Summer Fete. I don't 
 know what to do with that thing you have so often sent me, 
 'Goodbye, my youth'— having tried over and over to make 
 something tolerable of it, without success. I shall see, how- 
 ever, whether upon the same thought, and taking what sailors 
 call ' a fresh departure,' I may not do something better." 
 
 299 Five Letters, one 4to., four Svo., 2nd, 7th, 9th, 19th, and 28th 
 November, 1831 
 
 "I send you a very pretty xAir of Miss Iloulton's, to which 
 I was very glad to be able to write nice words." The Cholera 
 panic. " I dare say Doctor Russell himself would, in the event 
 of the disease actually reaching London, dismiss the whole 
 school, as that part of the town would be of all others least 
 eligible in such circumstances. But I should not like you to 
 wait for this, but on the first intelligence of the approach of 
 Cholera to do as I have said above, shewing this letter to Doc- 
 tor Russell as your authority for what you_ do. The News- 
 papers to-morrow morning may perhaps decide me as to the 
 steps to take, but in the mean time (that is, between this and 
 your hearing from me again) I leave all to your own discre- 
 tion." " Many thanks for the good fish, which feasted Miss 
 Starkey, Hughes and ourselves yesterday. I want you to go 
 with the letter to Rogers yourself, and to ask whether he is in 
 town— if not, enqiire his address (that is, if he is not expected 
 back soon), and, directing the letter accordingly, put it in the 
 post." " I see the alarm from Cholera has subsided ; but we 
 shall have it yet." "They had some hundred policemen sta- 
 tioned in the Charter House the other day. What a state 
 England is brought to!" Directions to bind a cojiy of the 
 Irish Melodies " for a wedding present, and the sooner it .is 
 done the better." 
 
SECOND day's sale. 103 
 
 300 Five Letters, one 4to., throe 8vo., one \'2mo., 8th (two) and 
 
 2Sth December. Two undated (one of two sides), 1831 
 
 Note {undelivereif) to the Rev. Doctor Russell, of the Char- 
 ter House. " I have had just time to read over ^Ir. Wade's 
 MS. [See Lot 329] and dispatch it back to you. I find it is 
 merely a History of Ancient Music, and, though appearing to 
 be done with considerable talent, by no means comprises the 
 part of the subject which would make it a work of much gene- 
 ral interest. This is all I have to say, but you may shew him 
 this note, with my compliments and best thanks for the flatter- 
 ing manner in which he has spoken of myself. The piracies 
 another time. It is too bad of the fellows to rob me of my 
 Romaika." "The books need not be bound, nor need they 
 come down to me, as it will be sufficient to write in them. 
 ' From the Author,' and the persons that occur to me at pre- 
 sent, areC. C. F. Greville, Esq. 11, Suffolk Street, Haymarket, 
 (I think it is 11, but you will know at the Council Office), 
 Lady Frances L. Gower, Bridgewater House, Cleveland Row, 
 and Henry Luttrel, Esq. Brooke's Club House. You had 
 better, I "think, send one also to E. L. Bulwer, Esq. M.P., 
 from the Author.' He is, you know, Colburn's Editor, and 
 lives in Hereford Street, May Fair. As to Barnes and Jerdan, 
 if you send copies to them, you may put ' from the Author ' or 
 not, just as you think adviseable." " If I puzzled Bishop, he 
 lias, in return, puzzled me still more. The fact is, though his 
 accompaniments are beautiful, he has, by the alterations he has 
 made, changed the whole cliaracter of the Air," &.c. " I can- 
 not find where my verses, ' Die where you will,' have been pub- 
 hshed, but, I rather think, it must have been in the last editions 
 of the Two-penny Post Bag, or, perhaps, of the Fudge Family 
 — at the end." 
 
 301 Two Musical Compositions in the autographs of Sir John 
 
 Stevenson, and Sir Henry R. Bishop, folio 
 " Sir Roland the Brave, a simple Ballad for three voices, by 
 Sir John Stevenson, dedicated to Mrs. Gold, of Merion Square." 
 Four pages. " May Morning— a Pastoral for three voices — 
 the poetry by Mdton, composed and, by permission, respect- 
 fully dedicated to Her Grace the Duchess of St. Alban's, the 
 Countess of Guildford, and Lady Burdett, by Henry R. Bishop, 
 1834.'' Fifteen pages. 
 
 302 Mr. Moore to Mr. Power. Four Letters, one -Ito. (two sides) 
 
 three Svo. (one of two sides), 10th, 17th, '21st, and 31st 
 
 January, 1832 
 " Our dissipations here continue, but, thank God ! the meet- 
 ing of Parliament will rid me soon of all this idling. I have 
 had lately most splendid offers from Colburn (through his new- 
 Editor), \o furnish Squibs to his Magazine — but have declined. 
 
104 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 ' Terms (says Bulwer in his letter) ^vhich only so opulent a 
 publisher as Mr. Colburn could afford to offer.' I could not, 
 however, let this boast pass without saying, that liberal as was 
 Mr. Colburn's offer, I must do the Magnificos of the Times 
 the justice to say that it fell short of them. It was for such 
 things as I sent the Times he had asked." " Murray writes 
 me word that his new Edition is doing very well. Have you 
 observed the usual shuffling in his advertisements of it ? At 
 first suppressing my name altogether, and now putting it the 
 most prominent, as if the whole was edited by me. There 
 never was such an odd fellow." Sends "the MS. of that 
 tiresome namesake of mine, to whom you may give a 2)0U7id 
 for me, if you think he is really so wretched as he says." 
 "The address of my namesake is 48, Chandos Square, St. 
 Martin's Lane. The poor devil, as a last hope, has since 
 written to beg a copy of the Summer Fete, meaning, of course, 
 to pawn it. Let him have the Sovereign instead." 
 
 303 Two Letters, 8vo., 19th and 26th February, 1832 
 
 " I am very nearly well of my Influenza, and hope you and 
 yours keep free of all aches and alarms, in these alarming times." 
 " I have nothing for you in the way of work to-day." &c. 
 
 304 Six Letters, four 4to. (one unsigned), two 8vo. (one of two 
 
 sides), 8th, 11th, 14th, 18th, 21st, 23rd March, 1832 
 
 "I send you more of the Evening; the four last lines not 
 j-et finished. My closing scene will be a puzzler, as I wish to 
 make it both a lively and probable termination of the whole 
 work by bringing the absent Warriors home, while the young 
 ladies are at supper. As to pictures this poem abounds with 
 them ; but where is the artist ?" "1 don't know where Crofton 
 Croker lives, and this letter being upon a subject in which a 
 neighbour of mine is interested I wish it forwai'ded by twopenny 
 Post immediately." "My own movements will also a good deal 
 depend on the answer, as it will decide, I think, whether I shall 
 go before Patrick's day, or after." " Did I tell you of another 
 Magazine Editor being at me with all sorts of good offers ? The 
 new opponent of Blackwood in Edinburgh. He got the usual 
 answer. They appear to be making great eflTorts for this new 
 start." " Doctor Russell's answer has decided me not to come 
 up till the end of next week, which will suit me much better 
 (all except the losing St. Paddy's day)" " I have had no 
 formal requisition yet from Limerick, but I rather think they 
 mean to tempt nr.e. What they propose is a subscription among 
 the women of Ireland for the purpose, which would certainly be a 
 very pretty way of doing the thing." "There was a Grand 
 Fancv Entertainment given at a private house in Bath lately, 
 consisting of scenes out of Lalla Rookh and the Evenings in 
 Greece ; the Music of the latter got up by professors. They 
 ought to have asked the author to it." 
 
SECOND day's sale. 105 
 
 305 Three Letters, 4to., 11th, 13th, and 2Gth April, 1832 
 
 " I have not hecn able to finish copying out the lines I showed 
 you in town sufficiently soon to go in tliis cover; but tlicy and 
 more shall go next time." '* I should like to have at the same 
 time a copy of the Summer Fete, for which I fear, by your 
 account, I am your best customer." "A man called upon mc 
 yesterday, who told me he had enquired for me at your house 
 on Tuesday. Harding, the bookseller of Cornhill. He came 
 expressly by the Mail to offer me 1000 guineas for a Poem — 
 the third of the size of Lalla Rookh — to have ilhistrated in the 
 manner of Rogers's. I asked him was he aware that Rogers's 
 book had cost him ^67000? He said, yes—* But then the 
 badness of the times,' said I. All this, he answered, that he had 
 taken into consideration, but the rage for illustrated works was 
 so great, that he had no doubt of success, if I would write the 
 Poem. I did not like to give the poor man a decided ' No.' 
 So he returned by the Mail last night as he came. I mention 
 this to you, because you were talking of having the Evenings in 
 Greece illustrated, and it is at least a bookseller's opinion in 
 favour of the success of such a plan." " I send you a portion 
 of the Second Evening corrected for the Press," &c. 
 
 30G Two Letters, one 8vo., one 12mo., 4th and 16th May, 1832 
 
 "I send you some more of the Evening." " Bisliop is, I 
 must say, very provoking. I send his account book back." 
 " We are both much obliged by your kind note, but it is not 
 the intention of either of us to come to town for some time. I 
 was myself about to start for Ireland when the melancholy news 
 reached me." 
 
 307 Four Letters, one 4to., two 8vo., one irregular, 11th June, 1st, 
 
 8th, and 14 th July, 1832 
 
 "I sent by mistake, yesterday, hotli of Bishop's settings of 
 the Dying Warrior to his Sword, and want one of them (it 
 does'nt matter which) back again to write words to, any time 
 will do." "I was in Devizes from Thursday till yesterday 
 evening, and did not receive your packet till my return." " I 
 should be glad when you have occasion to write again that you 
 would say through what ehaiuiel the Collection of Irish Airs 
 sent to me from America (which came in the last parcel) reached 
 your hands." 
 
 308 Three Letters, one 8vo., two 12mo. (one of two sides), Gth, 8th, 
 
 and 26th August, 1832 
 " I am sorry to have been obliged to make so much alteration 
 in the words of 'Welcome, sweet bird,' but it has, from the first, 
 given me a great deal of trouble, behig a most awkward air to 
 put words to." 
 
 \0)i the bacJc is ivritten and struck through] 
 
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106 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 " Sloperton, August 6, 1832. 
 " My Dear Sir, 
 
 " I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. 
 O'Connell at Bristol the other day, "svlien we had a good 
 deal of conversation on the subject to which you allude, 
 and were it my luck to have enjoyed the advan- 
 tage. — '^ 
 
 "I send you two Songs. 'The Russian Lover,' and 'Hush, sweet 
 Lute,' and the reason of niy troubling you with them on a Sun- 
 day is to request that you will oblige Mr. Phipps by performing 
 the inclosed commission for him. I forget the name of the 
 fishmonger in your neighbourhood (whether it is Garbage or 
 Groutage), but you will know the person I mean, and be so 
 good as to mention that I recommended him." 
 
 309 Three Letters, one 4to. (franked " Lansdowne"), two 8vo., 4th, 
 
 7th, and 8th September, 1832 
 
 " I return the Proofs and Revises, with (I am sorry to say) 
 a few more corrections in the latter. I send you also a new 
 Song, ' The days are gone,' which with two of the four others 
 inclosed (you can take your choice) completes the number that 
 were wanting to make up my due quantity. By my next parcel 
 I shall send a third verse for ' The days are gone,' and your 
 account book, as also the copy of the Pere La Chaise Anecdotes, 
 \^See for Original MS., Lot 312], which I am very sorry your 
 daughter had the trouble of writing, as it ivas not that I 
 wanted, but two or three translations from Catullus, which 
 were with it, and which I should be glad to have by the next 
 parcel." " I send the third verse of ' The days are gone' — a 
 very appropriate title for the last Song it is possible I may ever 
 write for you. It is not without pain that I use these expres- 
 sions, and I will hope for both our sakes that the result may be 
 otherwise — but all will depend upon the shape in which the 
 enclosed Account Book is returned to me." " Have the good- 
 ness to say, in your next, the exact day on which my last bill 
 upon you becomes due." " I send you a Melody. \Yill you 
 have the goodness to ask at Ridgway's, Piccadilly, for a speech 
 of Sir II. Parnell's this last Session, and send it to me when 
 you have a parcel." " Many thanks for the nice oysters." 
 " I had got this frank \jiot 2ioste(r\ from Lord Lansdowne, but 
 find he misdated it." 
 
 310 Fi". e Letters, one 4to., two 8vo., two 12mo., 5th and ICth 
 
 October, 5th, l/th, and 30th November, 1832. 
 
 " I forT;ot to say that the Guittar is wanted almost imme- 
 diately, and you will therefore lose no time hi sending it." " I 
 have only time in dispatching the inclosed to express my sincere 
 regret at your continued illness, and my hope that you will 
 
SECOND day's sale. 107 
 
 soon have better news to send me." " I rejoice to liear that 
 you are so much better." " I have not time for more, but 
 "hope to hear that you are quite recovered." 
 
 311 Four Letters, three 4to., one 8vo., 3rd, 15th, 2Gth, and 2eth 
 
 December, 1832 
 " Pray forgive all this haste and trouble." " There is no- 
 thing more necessary to be done, in the way of preface or 
 advertisement for the Second Evening." " Mrs. Moore is 
 much obliged for the copy of the Second Evening, and I am 
 thankful to you for sending one to my sister." " We have to 
 thank you for a very fine present of Fish, which has not only 
 feasted ourselves but many of our neighbours." 
 
 312 Unpublishkd MS. hj Mr. Moore, in his autograph (see 
 
 Lot 309), Eight closely written pages, 4to, on three sheets 
 of paper, with indorsement of date in 2>encil hy Mr. 
 Poiver, referring to September and November, 1827, and 
 headed by Mr. Moore, " For the Miscellany. Sketches 
 of Paris. Sketch the First— P^re la Chaise'" 
 
 313 Four Letters, 8vo., 11th, 13th, and 21st March, and 3rd April, 
 
 1833 
 " It gave me much pleasure to receive your note, and I regret 
 having been obliged to defer our meeting so long — but as the 
 printer is at my heels, I am obliged to work all the first hours 
 of the morning. On Wednesdaj^, however, as soon after half- 
 past ten as may suit you, I shall be very glad to see you." 
 " I shall thank you to send as soon as you receive this, a copy 
 of the two Evenings in Greece, directed to Miss Barbara 
 Godfrey, 35, Berkely Square. She leaves town in the morning, 
 and therefore I wish her to have the book to-night. I shall 
 expect to see you to-morrow evening." " The dinner the other 
 day was more of company than I expected, and accordingly I 
 had not an opportunity of mentioning our business to JNIr. 
 Rees ; but as soon as my occupations will allow of my going 
 out in the morning, I shall call upon him on the subject." 
 " Mr. Rogers, to whom I have spoken, has consented to assist 
 us in our object." " I was sorry not to be able to see you 
 yesterday, being still very much occupied all the mornings — 
 but if you can call here on Friday morning between ten and 
 eleven I shall be glad to see you." 
 
 314 Two Letters, 8vo. (one of two sides), 4th December, 1834, and 
 
 2 1st November, 1835 
 " I have to apologize for not sooner applying myself to the 
 subject to which you drew my attention — but being busily cm- 
 ployed in sending off the first Copy of my Irish History to the 
 press, as also fancying, that the task you sent me was something 
 requiring more time than I find it actually does, I was induced 
 
108 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 to defer it till this moment. It strikes me (after turning the 
 matter over in my mind a good deal) that the present Preface 
 with the few alterations you will find made in it, is as good and 
 apropos as any new one I could prefix. I have found, however, 
 a most extraordinary erratum in the Letter Press of the Tenth 
 Number, which cannot be allowed to go forth without correc- 
 tion ; and if it was really in the proofs sent to me, nothing but 
 the unlikelihood of such a mistake occurring could have pre- 
 vented me from perceiving it. In order to turn aside the too 
 strong application of the words of the Song, ' To-morrow, Com- 
 rad,' &c. to the present state of Ireland, I had taken care to 
 prefix to it ' Time, the Ninth Century,' and the Printer here, in 
 order to saddle me with what I took so much pains to avoid, 
 has made it the nineteenth Century! As a joke it wouldn't be 
 bad, but from a Printer's devil it is rather too much. I meant 
 to have said something more— but do not like to lose this post. 
 Pray see that this passage is corrected." " Dec. .'). The parcel 
 was, after all, too late yesterday, and I open my note to insert a 
 few additional words. I think it but fair, after our long con- 
 nexion together, to apprize you that I occasionally still occupy 
 myself with music, and mean in the course of next Season to 
 publish some single Songs (either single or in a set), and like- 
 wise to finish a set of Sacred Songs which I have been from 
 time to time employed upon, I shall only add that I have not 
 yet entered into negociations. I inclose a letter which I re- 
 ceived some time since from the Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald, on the 
 subject of his intended work. I had better see a proof of the 
 corrected Preface, and if you will have your inclosure left with 
 the waiter at Brooks's it will come franked to me." " I have 
 just recollected, in sending off these proofs, that I have another 
 still uncorrected (' Not from Thee') to send you. It shall go 
 in the first parcel I am forwarding to the Longmans." " I 
 should be obliged by your letting me have a set of proofs of 
 these Songs for my own use when you are sending again — as I 
 think you had better — at least revises of those in which I have 
 made much correction." 
 
 315 Four Letters, 8vo., 16th February, lOth, 16th, and 21st March, 
 1836 
 
 " I send back the proofs, and shall be obliged by your look- 
 ing particularly to the restoration of the original accompaniment 
 to a bar or two in the Song, ' Go and forget it all.' I don't 
 know how or by whom the accompaniment (which is Cheru- 
 bini's own) was altered or mangled, but it makes havoc of the 
 whole Song." " I have not yet been able to satisfy myself in 
 an Air to ' The days are gone,' but you shall have it before 
 long." 
 
 Mr. Power died on the 26tii August, 1836. 
 
SECOND day's sale. 109 
 
 31 G Bronze Medal of Grattan, by Galle, referred to in Letters, 
 Lots 201 and 211 
 
 0. Henry Guattan. 
 
 r. In memory of the short period of Ireland's 
 
 INDEPENDENCE. 
 
 " I SAT BV ITS CRADLE. I FOLLOWED ITS HEARSE." — GKATTAN. 
 
 317 Miuiatnre on ivory in case, of Sir John Stevenson, painted by 
 Sherlock, 1805 
 
 3] 8 Portrait in watercolours of Sir John Stevenson by C. Robertson, 
 from which an engraving by A. Cardon was published by 
 Mr. Power in June, 1825, prefixed to Stevenson's Church 
 Services 
 
 319 Sketch in Indian Ink of a Bard, which has been engraved from, 
 
 as a vignette for the Irish Melodies 
 
 320 Drawing in watercolours by Westall (not engraved from, see 
 
 Letter in Lot 161 for Moore's criticism), made to illus- 
 trate 
 
 " Like Mary kneel, like Mary weep, 
 Love much and be forgiven." 
 
 321 Sketch in Indian ink by Martin T. Ward (not engraved from) 
 
 for a vignette to a dramatic Fairy Scene, the words by 
 Charles Hallett, Esq. The Music by T. Rovedino, (with 
 a copy of the publication and of the same design en- 
 graved as altered) 
 
 322 Highly finished drawing in pencil by W. G. {Grattan T) (not 
 
 engraved from) for an illustration of the Song of Sappho 
 to her loom, 
 
 " As o'er her loom the Lesbian Maid," &c. 
 in the Evenings in Greece. (First Evening.) 
 
 323 Highly finished drawing in water colours by Grattan (not 
 
 engraved from) for an illustration of "As vanquished 
 Erin," in the 9th Number of the Irish Melodies, with the 
 vignette before letters engraved in this number as an 
 illustration of "Sweet Innisfallen," (tohich was from a 
 sepia drawing hy Mrs. Crofton Croker) 
 
 324 Highly finished sketch in sepia to illustrate " As vanquished 
 
 Erin," by Brooke, with alteration annexed, (see Letter in 
 Lot 224) and an engraved impression from the design as 
 published in the Irish Melodies 
 
 325 Highly finished drawing in sepia to illustrate " Oh, ye Dead," 
 
 by Brooke, engraved and published in the 8th Number of 
 the Irish Melodies — (the vignette to xohich number, 
 although bearing the name of If. F. Rose, was from a 
 sepia drawing by 2\ Crofton Croker, Esq. as ivas also 
 the vignette to the 10 th Number, to illustrate " Oh Arran- 
 more," after a sketch by Capt. Beechey, R.N. 
 
110 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 326 Eight proof impressions, with directions in pencil respecting 
 
 lettering for an incomplete and suppressed work, entitled 
 "Landscape Illustrations of the Irish Melodies." One 
 number of which only, with four plates, was published 
 by Mr. Power in 1835. (See, Literary Gazette, 2nd of 
 May of that year) 
 
 327 The letterpress of the twelfth edition of the Irish Melodies 
 
 (1^36), containing only the 10th Number and Supple- 
 ment, with the Advertisements, &c. A list of Moore's 
 lyrical compositions appended. The Preface, with 
 numerotis Manuscript alterations in Moore s autograph. 
 Copy of the announcement of the " Vocal Jliscellany and 
 Landscape Illustrations," with Manuscript directions 
 " For the Atlas," in Mr. Power's autograph inserted 
 
 328 Manuscript words of an Opera in Three Acts folio 
 
 329 A Manuscript entitled "the History of Music," (unpublished) 
 
 small 4to. Eleven chapters prepared for the press, and 
 sewed in four portions. Referred to and not favourably 
 mentioned in a previous letter hy Moore 
 
 330 Proof impression from 6 engraved plates to illustrate " the His- 
 
 tory of ]\Iusic." 6 letters 8vo. and manuscript song with 
 musical notation by the author J. Augustine Wade, Esq. 
 to Mr. Power, written between 28th February, 1831, and 
 28th April, 1832 
 
 " L. Union Club." " Will you do me a favour? My yearly 
 subscription to my Club (where I live at least for 50 per cent 
 cheaper and better) is due to-day. It will be a great loss to me to 
 be excluded. Pray have the kindness to send me per bearer, as I 
 cannot leave this at present myself, sSo, for which you shall have 
 the selection of one or two if you wish, out of six songs which 
 I shall bring you in the course of to-morrow." •' Pray strain a 
 point for me this time." Indorsed by Mr. Power, "Feb. 28, 
 1831, cash £b." "I shall be very glad to know decisively 
 when we commence the printing of ' the History of Music,' as I 
 have several heavy engagements offered to me, some of which 
 must stand over in order to superintend it. I should also be 
 very much obliged to you if you will allow me to draw on you, 
 at any time not exceeding 6 months for our agreed bargain. 
 On hearing from you I shall send you the etchings." " I have 
 a few ballads in a popular style, similar to ' Meet me by Moon- 
 light,' are you inclined to purchase them ? my price is not 
 high." " I am in distress — you can relieve me without injuring 
 yourself. I send you one of my best songs by my friend (Mr. 
 Clancy), pray let me have the old price for it. I am in your 
 debt another, but I trust soon to shew you a work that will be 
 )nore than equivalent to ' the History of Music' Oblige me this 
 time and I ^^'ill never forget it." 
 
SECOND bay's sale. I 1 1 
 
 ,"^31 Preface to an iinpublishecl Manuscript Collection of Poetry, 4to. 
 (written in 1833) and one Letter, 8vo. respecting; it in 
 Mr. ]Moore's Autograph, with an extract from a missing 
 letter of JMoorc's to Mr. Power, which shews that ^loorc 
 was paid for the Collection jG200, 22nd August, 181 1 
 
 *^* There are reasons for supposing that the copyright of 
 this Manuscript was assigned hy Mr. Power to Messrs. 
 Longman and Co. lh(t if ever published loith Mr. 
 Moore's corrections, its value as a literary record is of 
 little importance. 
 
 " "With regard to that Miscellany, I have had such an offer 
 about it since from Edinburgh, as would enable me to give each 
 of you fifty pounds for your bargain, and have tivo hundred 
 pounds over. I shall not, however, go back of my word if you 
 wish for it." 9th June, 1826. " I send you your copy of the 
 Miscellany, and keep back the originals. I see they will recpiirc 
 a great deal of comparing with each other. The authors of 
 many of the poems can only be known by the handwriting, and 
 your transcriber has left the MS. in such confusion, that to 
 give each his own will be no small difficulty. When Philip 
 Crampton told Sir W. Scott of this Miscellan}' in Dublin, Scott 
 said, ' I'll get Moore a thousand pounds for it.' I wish he 
 would make his words good to Mrs. Power ; but I fear it is far 
 from having any such value." 
 
 The Preface. '* From a feeling of reverence for some of 
 those great names which adorned the brief and bright era of 
 Irish History from 1 782 to 1 798, I was induced near thirty 
 years since, to set about collecting the various poetical trifles 
 with which some of the most distinguished Ornaments of that 
 period, Ilussey Burgh, Sir Hercules Langrishe, Curran, and 
 our illustrious Grattan himself, were known occasionally to have 
 amused their leisure hours. Of these poems it was my inten- 
 tion to form a small Volume, and they were placed in the hands 
 of their present publisher for that purpose. Other pursuits 
 * and avocations have interfered with that design ; and it was for 
 
 a time almost forgotten by me. In the meanwhile, the literary 
 genius of the Age advanced with rapid steps, and, as the de- 
 partment of poetry, more especially gave birth to a succession 
 of works which have considerably altered, if not elevated, the 
 public taste. Under these circumstances, it appeared doubtful 
 whether I should be acting fairly towards the memory of my 
 great Countrymen in inviting attention to compositions which, 
 had they been published at the period when they were written, 
 might have doubtless secured for themselves a prescriptive right 
 to fame, but which, making their first appearance in these fas- 
 tidious times, can hardly hope for any such honorary distinc- 
 tion. Indeed, the circumstance that would most attract notice 
 to these poems, the distinguished names of their authors, might 
 also be found the most fatal to their success ; and, unfitted as 
 
112 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 many of them are, in themselves, to encounter the modern 
 School of criticism, it was to be feared that, under the Shadow 
 of the Giant names prefixed to them, they would appear but 
 the more disproportioned and insignificant. 
 
 " In these apprehensions, however, I was myself, perhaps, 
 fastidious : at all events, some circumstances having occurred 
 lately to place the Manuscripts of these Poems beyond my con- 
 troul, they are here laid before the Public, and being at least 
 curious relics, will, I trust, meet with all the notice and success 
 which they deserve, 
 
 Thomas Moobe." 
 
 *^* A distinguished Literary Gentleman, upon being con- 
 sulted respecting the Publication of this Manuscript, wrote to 
 dissuade any thing being done with it during the Poet's life- 
 time. After his decease " you will only have to consider the 
 intrinsic value of the intended publication. I do not mean the 
 intrinsic merit of the poems, which, I think, will be small, for 
 that was an age of poetastery, but I think that such a Collec- 
 tion will be likely to have a sale in Ireland, and amongst all who 
 take an interest in Irish history. I fancy Hussey Burgh's 
 would be the best — though still mediocre— i\idx very medio- 
 crity would be a kind of historical fact." 
 
 332 A Manuscript Collection of Poetry, by the Rt. Hon. John 
 
 Philpot Curran, the Lord Chief Baron (Hussey) Burgh, 
 Mrs. Moore, Joseph Atkinson, and John Brown (37 GG 
 lines, unpublished) folio 
 
 Of the two former no notice here is necessary. Mrs. Moore 
 is presumed to be the Poet's INIother ; JNIr. Atkinson was Trea- 
 surer of the Ordnance, under the Earl of Moira's Administra- 
 tion, and died in Dublin, October — , 1818, aged 7o. Mr. 
 Brown is particularly mentioned by Moore in a Note on '• the 
 Young May moon," in the Irish Melodies, and a reference may 
 be made to a letter in Lot 63 respecting " Morna's Grove." 
 
 333 Model of a Cottage offered to Mr. Moore rent free in Ireland, 
 
 which was declined by him 
 
 334 Music Chair with elaborately carved back 
 
 335 Office Ink Stand, in carved wooden case and brass socket for 
 
 candle, called " Moore's Ink Stand " 
 33G Pair of French Porcelain Vases, blue and gold, for chimney 
 ornaments, 12 inches high 
 
 337 English Porcelain figure of Falstaff (curious as a record of 
 
 Stage Costume). Imperfect, 9 inches high 
 
 338 Three Chinese painted Sua Bhnds 
 
 339 Taper Stand for writing table. The identical one introduced 
 
 in the Sketch of Moore in Frasek's Magazine, Octo- 
 ber, 1830 
 
 340 Two Ancient Maps of Ireland. Facsimiles in Lithography 
 
 Privately Pkinted 
 
SECOND day's sale. 113 
 
 341 Seven Historical Illustrations of Kilmallock by T. Crofton 
 
 Croker, Esq. in Litliogra[)hy, folio Privately Pkinted. 
 [The unique copy of the letter-press presented to Moore 
 by Mr. C. Croker!] 
 
 342 Unpublished Manuscript of " INIusical Evenings, or Selections 
 
 from the best Composers, Vocal and Instrumental, in- 
 terspersed with prose and poetry, and adapted to the 
 performance of Evening parties. The Music arranged by 
 Vincent Novello. The remainder by Leigh Hunt." 8vo. 
 6fi pages (corrected by Mr. Hunt for press), with the 
 Music of the 19 Airs introduced 
 This worlc was purchased hy Mr. Power from Mr. Leiyh 
 
 Hunt in 1822 or 23, and for the arranyement of the Music 
 
 Mr. Novello was paid 25 yuineas. 
 
 MSS. OF MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES. 
 
 343 Portions of the following Songs in the III Number, most of 
 
 them with Mr. ]Moore's Autograph Corrections, and a 
 few parts in Sir John Stevenson's writing 
 
 " Like the bright lamp that shone in Kildare's holy fane" (4) 
 
 " Drink to her who long " 
 
 '* O Blame not the Bard " 
 
 344 "When daylight was yet sleeping under the billow " (2) 
 
 " By the hope within us springing " (2) 
 
 " Night closed around the Conqueror's w-ay " 
 
 34.5 "Oh 'tis sweet to think that where'er we rove" 
 " Through grief and through danger " 
 " When through life unblest we rove " 
 "Lesbia hath a beaming eye," from the IV Nujeber 
 of the Irish Blelodies, lohich appeared in November, 1811, 
 and the Manuscript Copy for which of all the Songs loith the 
 , exception, o/*' Lesbia hath" aiid this is in neither Moore's nor 
 
 Sir John Stevenson s wriiing, is missing. 
 
 34G The V. Number appeared in December, 1813 
 
 "Through Erin's Isle" 
 
 " At the Mid hour of Night, when Stars are wce])ing " 
 
 Three sides, words and Music in Moore's Autograph, who 
 has added a note, " This dohful ditty might I think lie har- 
 monized. T. M." 
 
 " One bumper at parting." 
 
 317 '"Tis the last Rose of Summer" loritten " Twas," kc. 
 
 " Tlic Young May Moon " written '" The midnight Moon" 
 '■The Minstrel Boy" (2) 
 
 (Three of Moore's most poptilur Songs, Music and words 
 in his Autograph). 
 
 P 
 
114 ■ SECOND day's sale. 
 
 348 " The Valley lay smiling before me " 
 
 " Oh had we some bright little Isle " (2), written " blest 
 little " 
 
 " Farewell, but whenever you welcome the hour " 
 (Music and tvords of the last two in Moore" s Autograph) 
 
 349 *' Oh doubt me not " (2), secon^ verse in Moore's Autograph 
 
 "You remember Ellen (2), Music and ivords, ditto 
 
 " I'd mourn the hopes that leave me" (2), Music and ivords, 
 
 ditto, and also those for a Finland Glee, " I savj the Moon 
 
 rise clear," Sfc. 
 
 350 The VI. Number appeared in March, 1815 
 
 "Come o'er the Sea" (2) 
 
 " Has Sorrow thy young days shaded " (3) 
 
 "No, not more welcome." (2) 
 
 Mtisic and ivords of the three in Moore's Autograph. 
 
 351 "When first I met thee warm and young" (2) 
 
 "While History's Muse" See Lots 94 and 174. 
 " The time I've lost in wooing." (2) 
 
 Music and loords of the three in Moore s Autograph. 
 
 352 "Where is the Slave so lowly" (2) 
 
 " Come rest in this bosom " (2) 
 " Tis gone and for ever." 
 
 Music and words of the first two in Moore's Autograph, — his 
 original Sketch of the words for the first, which he calls " the 
 Song of the Forlorn Hope " — 
 
 " Forlorn ! oh never name them. 
 Forlorn ! whose wrongs inflame them 
 To grapple thus 
 With Death like us 
 When revenge and freedom claim them ; 
 
 We tread the Soil that bore us. 
 The Green Flag's shining o'er us, 
 
 The friends we've tried 
 
 Are by our side, 
 And the foe we hate before us, 
 
 Farewell Erin," &c. 
 
 353 " I saw from the beach " 
 
 " Fill the Bumper fair " 
 
 "Dear Harp of my Country" (3), written " Sweet Harp." 
 
 Music and ivords of the latter in Moore's Autograph. 
 
 354 The VII Number appeared in October, 1818 
 
 " My Gentle Harp " 
 
 " As slow our Ship her foamy track," various alterations 
 
 "When cold in the earth." 
 
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 Music and coords of the last two in Moore's Autograph. 
 
 355 "Remember thee! yes while there's life " (3) 
 
 " Wreath the bowl " 
 " If thou'lt be mine." 
 
 Music and words of the three in Moore's Autoyraph. 
 
 356 "To ladies' eyes a round boy " 
 
 "Forget not the field" 
 
 "They may rail at this life." (2) 
 
 Music and words of the three in Moore's Autograph. On 
 the back of the first is written a Sacred Song, " Oh teach me 
 to love thee" and " To ladies' eyes," a fourth and unpublished 
 verse — 
 
 *' If you would know the splendour 
 That lights some eyes ; 
 Oh watch them gleaming tender 
 
 When Music sighs — when Music sighs. 
 When through them warmly glisten 
 
 Their very souls — their very souls, 
 Like stars that wink and listen 
 When Heaven rolls — when Heaven rolls." 
 
 On the back of the third are written the tioo following un- 
 published verses to the Air of^' The Girl 1 left behind me." 
 
 " Though joy in every land may cheer 
 
 The young light hearted rover. 
 Amidst it all he'll lend a tear 
 
 To home and bliss that's over. 
 Though love may charm the wanderer, 
 
 No fetters e'er shall bind him. 
 Like those that first were wreath'd by her. 
 
 The Girl he left behind him. 
 
 When flattering friends his heart beguile. 
 
 He'll think of some sincerer, 
 When radient lips around him smile. 
 
 He'll sigh for lips far dearer. 
 When Music breathes with sweetest skill, 
 
 Her tones will but remind him, 
 Of Music breathed more sweetly still 
 
 By her he left behind him." 
 
 357 The VIII Numbek appeared in May, 1821. 
 
 " Ne'er ask the hour, what is it to us." (2) 
 
 " Sail on, sail on, thou fearless bark (2) 
 
 " Yes, sad one of Zion, if closely resembling (2) 
 
 Music and words of the three, and " Oh ye Bead," [See 
 Lot 358] on the back of the latter, in Moore's Autograph, 
 with the copies of each, as arranged by Sir Henry Bishop, for 
 press. 
 
116 SECOND DAYS SALE. 
 
 358 " Drink of this Cup " (2) 
 "Down in the Valley" (2) 
 " Oh ! ye Dead." (2) 
 
 Music and words of the first t)ro — \iox the last, sec Lot 
 257] in Moore's Autograph, with the Copies of each as ar- 
 ranc/ed by Sir Il^ry Bishop for j^ress. 
 
 359 " O'Donohue's Mistress " (2) 
 
 " How sweet the answer Echo makes" (2) 
 "Oh banquet not" (2) 
 
 Music and words of the first two in Moore's Autograph,, 
 with copies of each as arranged by Sir Henry Bishop far 
 jn-ess. 
 
 360 " Thee, thee, only tliee " (2) 
 
 " Shall the Harp then he silent " (2) 
 ^' Oh, the sight entrancing " (2) 
 
 Music and words of the first in Moore's Autograph with 
 copies of each as arranged by Sir Henry Bishop for pi^'ess. 
 
 361 The IX. Number appeared in November, 1824. 
 
 " Sweet Innisfallen " 
 
 " 'Twas one of those dreams " 
 
 " Quick, we have but a second " 
 
 Music and words in Moore^s Autograph ivith note upon 
 the first, " There are to be a good many more verses" 
 
 362 Second verse to " Quick, we have but a second" 
 With " They know not my heart " (on the back) 
 " And doth not a meeting like this " 
 
 " As Vanquished Erin" 
 
 The four last lines of the second verse of this remarkable 
 political Song appear from this Manuscript to have been origi- 
 nally written, 
 
 " And still he draws new arrows thence, 
 Which through her vales and fountains 
 He scatters, like some pestilence 
 That poisons all life's fountains." 
 
 3Iusic and words in Moore's Autograph. 
 
 363 Second verse to " I wish I was by that dim Lake " 
 With new verses to " Hide in thy heart that hope" 
 (" Fairest put on a while ") 
 " Sing, sing, Music was given" (3) 
 " They know not my (this) heart " (2) 
 
 The latter indorsed by Mr. Power, "January 10th, 1817, 
 copied 25th," Avliich j)roves that it must have been rejected 
 from the VII and VIII Numbers of the Irish Melodies, and 
 remained unpublished seven years. The alterations in this 
 remarkable copy arc curious. The second verse runs thus. 
 
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 " No, warm as the light of those glances may shine, 
 There's a light round thy heart, which is still more divine, 
 Tho' brilliant that cheek— 'tis the Soul, dawning clear, 
 Thro' its innocent blush, makes thy beauty so dear ; 
 As the sky we look up to, the glorious and fair 
 Is look'd up to the more, because Heaven is there!" 
 Music and words in Moore's Autograph, with copies. 
 3G4 The X Number and Supplement which completed the Irish 
 Melodies appeared in July, 1834 — the work having occu- 
 pied in its production twenty-seven years. 
 " Though humble the banquet " (4 verses) a Song supposed 
 to he addressed to the Marquis of Lansdowne (2) 
 
 The corrections by Moore upon Sir Henry Bishop's Manu- 
 script are numerous — "Vulgar" is substituted for "frown of" 
 in the third verse, and in the third line of which there is a tripli- 
 cate reading different from that in the published Collected 
 Edition of the Poet's works. 
 
 1. " Which, truth for its guide and no chain on its pinion" 
 
 2. " Which with vision unhooded and fetterless j)inion " 
 And in pencil, 3. Which like the fledg'd Eaglet, with fetter- 
 less pinion" 
 
 " Sing, sweet \sad'] Harp" (3) 
 
 Pencil Notes by Moore on Sir Henry Bishop's MS — Correction 
 by the Poet on his own Musical MS. of the second verse, after- 
 wards replaced by " Of Chieftains now forgot," &c. 
 
 " Of vows to beauty in her bloom, 
 Of war hymns to the brave. 
 And lays of long- famed bards o'er whom 
 Now sweeps oblivion's wave." 
 
 Sir Henry Bishop's note is to the effect that he thinks " two 
 verses would be sutficient of the Harmonized version, but if Mr. 
 Moore writes the third verse Harmonized, I shall be happy to 
 add it. H.R.B." 
 
 "To-morrow, Comrade, we" (2) 
 
 Some curious Corrections, such as " the bowl 'tis weeping" 
 for " our Goblets weeping" by Moore on his own MS. It was 
 the Erratum in the proof of this Song, where the Printer substi- 
 tuted " Time the Nineteenth^' for the Ninth Century, that gave 
 Mr. Moore so much uneasiness, and Mr. Power so much trouble. 
 The joke, for it was no more, caused the elder D'Israeli to term 
 Mr. Croft on Croker, " the Literary Puck," by which soubriquet 
 he was for some time known at Murray's. And tho Author of 
 the Irish Fairy Legends only brought the Modern Anaercou and 
 the Publisher of the Irish Melodies to good humour by writing 
 a letter to the former in burlesque Greek, which the latter trans- 
 
118 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 mittediu a basket of fish." Mr^y; 'Nrtpevtr AKodaXMp; S)'^/3nX\w. 
 oia QijpaoQ av ^lIicj aoi Kai ev IleTrep, &c. which after some 
 conjecturing was found to read — 
 
 " Men ne'er use half a Cod alone — some boil oh! Oyster 
 sauce— and mixes soy, cayenne pepper, &c. 
 
 3Iusic 071(1 words in Moore's Autoyraph, with Bishops trans- 
 cripts. 
 
 365 "The wandering Bard" (3) 
 
 " Alone in crowds to wander on " (2) 
 " I've a Secret to tell thee" (2) 
 
 Music and woi'ds in Moore's Autograph, with Bishops trans- 
 cripts, 
 
 366 " Song of Innisfair' (2) 
 " The Night Dance " (2) 
 
 " There are sounds of mirth " (2) 
 
 Music and words in Moore's Autograph, xoith Bishops 
 transcripts. 
 
 367 " Oh, Arranmore, loved Arranmore " (2) 
 " Lay his sword by his side " (3) 
 
 " Oh could we do with this world of ours " (2) 
 
 Music and words of the first two in Moore s Autograph, 
 and upon Bishop's transcripts of the latter remarls hij Mr. 
 Moore. 
 
 36S " The Wine Cup is circling " (3) 
 " The dream of those days " (2) 
 " Silence is in our festive halls " (3) 
 
 Music and words in Moore's Autograph, with Bishops trans- 
 cripts. 
 
 NATIONAL AIRS. 
 
 Music and words in Moore's Autograph, when not other- 
 wise expressed by a^ 
 
 369 " A Temple to Friendship " 
 " Bright be thy dreams" (4) 
 
 •' Bring the bright garlands hither 
 
 " Come chase that starting tear away " (2) 
 
 " Dost thou remember " (2) 
 
 370 " Fare thee well, thou lovely one " (2) 
 " Farewell Theresa " (2) 
 
 " Fear not that, while aroinid thee" 
 *' Flow on thou shining River " (3) 
 " Gaily sounds the Castanet" (2) 
 " Go now and dream " 
 
 371 "Go then, 'tis vain" (2) 
 " Hear mc but once " (4) 
 
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 " Here sleeps the Bard " (2) 
 
 * " Hope comes again " 
 
 " If in loving, singing" 
 
 * " Joys of youth how fleeting " (2) 
 
 372 "Like one, who, doom'd" (i) 
 " Love alone " 
 
 " Love and Hope" (4) 
 
 " Love is a Hunter boy " (2) 
 
 " My Harp has one unchanging theme " (2) 
 
 " Ne'er talk of Wisdom's gloomy schools " (3) 
 
 373 "Nets and Cages" (fi) 
 
 *" O say thou, best and brightest" (2) 
 •' Oft in the stilly night " 
 " Oh come to me when daylight sets " (3) 
 
 * " Oh days of youth " 
 
 * " Oh guard our affection " 
 
 374 * " Oh, no, not even when first we loved " (2) 
 
 " Peace be around thee" (4) 
 
 " Peace to thy slumbers " (2) 
 
 " Reason, and Folly, and Beauty" (2) 
 
 " Row gently here " (4) 
 
 * " Say what shall be our sport to-^lay " 
 
 375 " See the dawn from Heaven" (2) 
 " Should those fond hopes " (3) 
 
 " Slumber, oh slumber" 
 " So warmly we met" (3) 
 
 * " Spring and Autumn " 
 " Take hence the bowl " 
 
 370 "The Chrvstal hunters" (3) 
 " Then fare thee well " (2) 
 - " There comes a time" (3) 
 " Those evening bells " 
 " Though 'tis all but a dream " (2) 
 
 377 "When first that smile" (2) 
 * "When Love is kind" (2) 
 
 " When Love was a child " (2) 
 
 * " When Night brings the hour " 
 
 " When the first Summer Bee" (2) 
 " When thou shalt wander" (2) 
 " When through the Piazzetta " (2) 
 
 378 " Where are the visions " 
 
 " Where shall we burv our shame " (2) 
 " Who'll buy my love' knots" (3) 
 " Wind thy horn my hunter boy " 
 
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 SACRED SONGS. 
 
 Music and Words in Moore s autograph, when not otherwise 
 expressed hy a*. 
 
 379 " Angel of Charity " (5) 
 
 '^ Awake, arise, thy light is come " 
 "Behold the sun" (3) 
 " But who shall see " 
 
 380 " Come ye disconsolate " (4) 
 "Fallen is thy Throne" 
 
 " Go forth to the Momit" (2) 
 
 " Go, let me weep " 
 
 " Hark ! 'tis the breeze " (2) 
 
 3S1 " How lightly momits the Muse's wing" 
 " Is it not sweet to think hereafter " (5) 
 " Like morning when her early breeze " (2) 
 ** Lord, who shall bear that day " (3) 
 
 This Lot presents perhaps the most complete specimen of 
 Moore's mode of Musical comj)osition extant. Eleven sides in 
 clerical ivriting, to which the Poet has appended several Notes. 
 His own notation of the Music — ivith Sir John Stevenson's 
 arrangement and the words in Sir John's Autograph in associa- 
 tion with Moore's ; it also contains Indorsements hy Mr. Power. 
 
 382 " Oh fair! oh purest ! (St. Augustine to his Sister) (2) 
 " Oh teach me to love Thee " (4) 
 " Oh, thou who dry'st the mourner's tear " 
 " Since first thy word" (4) 
 " Somid the loud Timbrel " 
 
 383 " The bird, let loose " 
 
 " The turf shall be my fragrant shrine " 
 " There is a bleak Desert " (2) 
 
 * " This world is all a fleeting show " 
 "Thou art, O God" (3) 
 
 384 " War against Babylon " (i) 
 
 " Weep, children of Israel " (4) 
 
 * " Were not the sinful Mary's tears " 
 
 " Where is your dwelling, ye sainted ?" 
 
 385 Portrait of Sir Hen. R. Bishop, ^ length, life size (in frame), 
 by Thomas Foster, exhibited in Royal Academy I822,and 
 engraved from in Mezzotint by Mr. Samuel W. Reynolds 
 
 38G Copper plate of the same by S. W. Reynolds (for engraving 
 of which Mr. Power j)aid Mr. Reynolds 3^04), with 100 
 impressions (nearly all that were taken) 
 
 3S7 Two pencil Sketches of Mr. Thomas Foster, by D. Maclise, 
 Esq. R. A. made in 1825 and 182G, in a box, under one 
 of which is 
 
 From the JiusT in the possession op Richard Saint* 
 hill, Esq. Cork, 18 March, 1826. 
 
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 388 Highly finished drawing in Water Colours hy Miss Sharpe 
 
 389 Autograph Notes (July, 1834) made by the late Mr. Moran, of 
 
 the Globe Newspaper, with the view to a biography of 
 Moore, with letters of Mr. Charles Kean (1842), pur- 
 chased at Mr. Moran's sale. 
 
 " Just mention for me that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean are 
 at present on a visit at Roborough House, the residence of Sir 
 Henry Blackwood, near Plymouth. These things do good for us 
 little people, so make the Sun shine on us also." " The Queen 
 has desired to see the Gamester on Monday evening, so that 
 the Lady of Lyons is removed to Wednesday. Let this be 
 known in the Globe, as the second visit of Royalty to see Charles 
 Kean and his wife within a fortnight." 
 
 " My dear Moran — Come it strokg — ever yours, C. K." 
 Offer of a private box. " The Morning Herald, formerly kind 
 to me, has turned its colour. Milk changed to gall. I presume, 
 entered as one of the Macready masonic clique. I am in a devil 
 of a funk," &c. 
 
 EVENINGS IN GREECE. 
 
 Music and Words in Moore's Autograph, unless where a * occurs. 
 
 390 * " Sappho at her loom " (see Lot 322), ivith 2 pages, 4to. of 
 
 the introductory verses in Moore's Autograph. 
 
 * " As on the shore " 
 
 391 One Letter, 4to., four sides, two in double column, 14th October, 
 
 1826 
 *" Blest be love" (2) 
 
 392 " Love and Wisdom" (2) 
 
 The Jive verses in Moore's Autograph, and interesting cor- 
 rections of Sir Uenry Bi^^hops Manuscri^d. 
 
 393 "Calm as beneath" (2) 
 
 " Here while the moonlight dim" (2) 
 * " The two fountains " 
 
 394 " March nor head those arms" 
 
 " No life is like the Mountaineer's " (4) 
 
 395 " Oh memory how coldly " (4) 
 
 396 "Grasp the falchion" 
 " Raise the buckler" 
 
 " Thou art not dead" (on Lord Byron) (10) 
 
 397 " 'Tis the vine " (;h) 
 
 " Up and march, the timbrels sound" (the Caravan Song) (2) 
 
 398 " Up with the s^parkling biinmier!" 
 " Weeping for thee " (2) 
 
 a 
 
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 399 "When the Bailaika" (2) 
 
 400 " When evening shades are falHng " 
 " Who comes so gracefully " (2) 
 
 " Welcome, sweet Bird " 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS OF VARIOUS PUBLISHED SONGS 
 BY MOORE, 
 
 CHIEFLY IN THE POET's AUTOGKAPH. 
 
 401 My heart and lute 
 Rose of the desert 
 
 Let thy joys alone be remembered 
 Tell her, oh tell her 
 Fanny dearest (Oh had I leisure) 
 Keep those eyes still purely mine 
 
 402 Poor wounded heart 
 jNIy boat is on the shore 
 From life without freedom 
 Such dreams may never 
 Could'st thou look as dear 
 How happy once 
 
 403 Poor broken flower 
 Dear, yes still dear 
 
 I love but thee (If after all) 
 
 The young rose 
 
 Song of war 
 
 W^hen the maid one loves is near one 
 
 404 The woodpecker 
 Pretty rose tree 
 
 Oh call it by some better name 
 
 When on the hp 
 
 Here take my heart 
 
 Young Muleteers (Oh the joys of our evening Posada) 
 
 405 Wilt thou say farewell 
 How happy once 
 
 There's a song of the olden time 
 Wake thee, my dear 
 Our first young love 
 Shine out stars 
 
 406 There's not a joy this world can give 
 Nights of music 
 
 Good bye, my youth, good bye 
 
 Blindfolding of love 
 
 To-morrow 
 
 Oh yes, so well, so tenderly 
 
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 407 Thou hast sent me a flowery band 
 Take back the sigh 
 
 Light sounds the harp 
 
 I cannot, I must not 
 
 Be mine, the rosy warm-eyed maid 
 
 yes, when the bloom 
 
 408 Will memory, when thou'rt roving 
 Oh, forget that you ever were mine 
 Go, blooming girl 
 
 1 dreamed that in the Paphian grove 
 Maid of Athens 
 
 Love thee dearest 
 
 409 Oh, 'tis love 
 Where is the heart 
 Sweet ray of light 
 The sale of loves 
 
 Song of a lover from the Hyperborean isle 
 
 410 Five Glei^s in the Autoffmph of Sir John Stevenson, «m^ 
 
 two Ballads, the words of the latter hy Joseph Atkinson, 
 Esq^. M.R.I.J. with Notes by Moore 
 
 Though Britain mourns ; — (a Glee on the death of Nelson, com- 
 posed at the seat of John Ready, Esq. July the 21st, 1812) 
 
 No never shall my soul forget 
 
 Where shall the lover rest 
 
 Far, far away 
 
 Like the halcyon 
 
 Sweet is the voice of her I love 
 
 The arch little god 
 
 Upon the last the following note in pencil occurs, " Is not 
 this too gross a plagiarism on the ' Wood pecker.' " J. P, 
 " It does not strike me so." T. M. 
 
 411 Hush, hush 
 
 When o'er the silent seas (Meeting of ships) 
 Parting before the battle (On to the field) 
 
 412 Engraved but Unpublished Songs by Mr. Moore, chiefly 
 
 in the Poet's autograph 
 
 *j^* The words of the Songs, in Lots 412 to 4 1 .0 inclusive, 
 cannot be published separated from the music, or in a 
 less size than 4to. without an infringement of the Coj)y- 
 right. 
 
 Ask not if still I love thee 
 Bright moon 
 Dreaming for ever 
 Go and forget it all 
 
 413 Guess, guess 
 
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 Hush, sweet lute 
 Long years have passed 
 Not from thee 
 
 414 Pretty maid 
 
 Send the goblet round 
 Still thou fliest 
 The Russian lover 
 Down in yon summer vale 
 
 4 1 5 Then first from love 
 There's something strange 
 Though lightly sounds 
 We met, love taught us 
 
 When love who ruled as admiral 
 
 416 The Summer Fete. 
 
 The proof sheets of this poem, 21 pages 4to., with between one 
 and two hundred corrections and numerous alterations in 
 Moore's Autograph — some lines being introduced, and 
 others omitted 
 
 417 The original Manuscript of this poem, 26 closely written 
 
 pages, 4to., in Moore's Autograph (1 1) 
 
 Music and words of the following Songs introduced into this 
 poem in Moore's Autograph. 
 
 418 " Array thee, love " (4) 
 " Bring thy lute hither " 
 
 " Call the Loves around " (2) 
 
 On the second verse Mr. Moore ajtpends this note to Mr. 
 Power, " There^s a pretty verse for youj" ^c. 
 
 419 " If to see thee " 
 
 " Long as I waltzed " 
 
 " Oh, where art thou dreaming " 
 
 420 " Our home is on the sea, boy " 
 
 " Smoothly flowing through verdant vales" 
 ** Some mortals there may be " (2) 
 
 421 Set of Glees. 
 
 Preface in Moore's Autograph, not retained in the collected 
 Edition of his Works, 4to. 
 
 " The Meeting of Ships " 
 ** Hip, hip, hurrah !" 
 " Hush— Hush !" (2) 
 « The Watchman " (3) 
 "The Evening Gun" 
 
 422 Legendary Ballads. 
 
 Music and Words in Moore's Autograph. Complete, {the 
 
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 tioelve Ballads), 28 pages small folio, re-written. The words 
 of two of the Ballads inserted, 4 to., with numerous Corrections, 
 Notes, &c. 
 
 An interesting Lot. 
 
 423 Proof Illustrations to Moore's Legendary Ballads, duplicates 32 
 
 424 Portraits, some private plates, piiooFS 9 
 
 425 Ditto, lithograph, original sketches, etc. 9 
 
 426 Portrait of T. Moore, an engraved copper plate, 4to, (unpub- 
 
 lished) 1 
 
 427 Landscape Illustrations of IMoore's Irish Melodies, Part I. 8vo. 
 
 6 copies, the remainder suppressed 
 
 428 Illustrations to Moore's Melodies, seven subjects, gilt frames 
 
 429 A Nautical Chart from England to the East Indies, a ship's 
 
 track marked in MS. 
 
 430 Seven mahogany frames 
 
 431 Landscape Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels, 
 
 from Drawings by J. M. W. Turner, 2 vols, (wanting No. 
 9, some duplicate Numbers) unbound 4to. 
 
 432 Manuscript Music of M. P. or the Blue Stocking, a Comic 
 
 Opera in three Acts, performed at the Theatre Royal 
 Lyceum, written, composed, and selected by Thomas 
 Moore, Esq. and arranged for the flute or flageolet by 
 John Parry (in the Autograph of the latter) 
 
 433 Manuscript Musical Drama, in three Acts, by "William Smith, 
 
 Jun., 4to. pp. 100, bound, dated "Golden Bridge, 16th 
 March, 1816" 
 
 434 Manuscript Music of eight Songs in !M. P. some in Moore's 
 
 Autograph, and with his corrections. [3/. P. was first 
 performed at the Lyceum, 9th September, 1811] 
 
 435 Manuscript Music of six Sacred Songs, composed by Lady 
 
 Augusta Kennedy Erskine 
 
 436 Byron. Proof sheets of " Thou art not dead," with Manu- 
 
 script of " There's not a joy the world can give," in the 
 writing of a lady, with Moore's autograph endorsement, 
 " Lord Byron's words, they must be adapted to the 
 Music, as well as you can for Stevenson, composed from 
 the last verse. The Sale of Loves shall go through the 
 Post to Lord Bathurst to-morrow" (4) 
 
 437 Moore's Manuscript Music book, bound, with some Songs and 
 
 Corrections in his Autograph. Note upon one passage, 
 " I am sure this passage wiW want civilizing a little." 
 T. M. 
 
 438 Manuscript Music of six Songs, composed by Lady Augusta 
 
 Kennedy Erskine, the words by Miss Costello and K. L. 
 Rawes, Esq. 
 
 439 Manuscript of six sides, ■Music and Words in Moore's Autograph, 
 
 " Say what shall we dance " 
 
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 440 Early Water colour drawings by Nicholson, &c. 3 
 
 441 Ditto 4 
 
 442 Ditto 4 
 
 443 Ditto 4 
 
 444 Ditto 4 
 
 445 Engraved portraits, folio 3 
 
 With letterpress descriptions — all that were published by the 
 Granger Society (rare) 
 
 446 Engraved portraits — Naval Officers and Divines, &c, 7 
 
 447 Caricature etchings (some rare) 5 
 
 448 Portraits by Holbein 5 
 
 449 Portraits various 9 
 
 450 Manuscript of twelve sides of "Say what shall we dance," in 
 
 Sir Henry Bishop's Autograph, with two pages of Musi- 
 cal Notation, and several critical observations and cor- 
 rections in Moore's autograph. " I am very sorry that I 
 should have explained myself so ill to Mr. Bishop on the 
 subject of the alterations, I wished not to give him all 
 this additional trouble. The present is the form I intended 
 to suggest " 
 
 451 Manuscript of 3 leaves, 8vo., written on both sides all in Moore's 
 
 autograph, from his pocket Music book for the 5th Num- 
 ber of the National Airs, 1825, with Mr. Power's endorse- 
 ments. Words and Musical notation for 
 
 " No leave my heart to rest " (Love and Hope) 
 *' Dost thou not hear the silver bell " 
 And " Do not say that life is waning " 
 
 A most desirable lot for the autograph Collector 
 
 452 One Letter (Mr. Moore to Mr. Power), 4to. September 2nd, 
 
 1828 
 
 A most desirable specimen for an autograph Collector. After 
 three lines of Musical notation with words, and name at full 
 length, " Here is the third verse, with the air, as well as I 
 can recollect it, if you are not prepossessed in favour of the title 
 I first put, I should rather have it called * Beauty and Song,' as 
 I see Bayley has something about the Nightingale and Rose in 
 his Butterfly, and I should like as little as possible to be mixed 
 up with his Butterflies. I don't know whether I mentioned to 
 you that Lady William Lennox told me she sings ' the Bashful 
 Lover' and the Romaika every where in Society, and Lord 
 William (who is become thoroughly professional) added, ' I think 
 we shall make the best hit of the Bashful Lover next year that 
 has been made for a long time.' Theodore Ilook, she says, 
 makes her sing * the Bashful Lover' over and over for ever for 
 him. You know (such is the diflercnce of tastes) that I was 
 always a little ashamed of this Song, and indeed, had I not 
 
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 seen that you were a little pleased with it, I should Have left it 
 out of the Collection. I am now glad I did not. We have 
 ordered some books, which Bessy wished you to give Murray 
 for his boy, and if the Longmans have not sent them, pray dis- 
 patch a Messenger for them, and let Bessy have them down 
 immediately " 
 
 453 Manuscript Songs (3) of eleven sides in the Autographs of 
 
 Moore and Sir Henry Bishop, the first entirely in Moore's 
 writing 
 
 " Being weary of love " 
 
 " Smile as you used to do " 
 
 " If I speak to thee in Friendship's name " 
 
 454 Manuscript Songs (3) of ten sides, words and Music of two 
 
 of them in the Autograph of Moore, the other in Sir 
 Henry Bishop's 
 
 " Common sense and Genius " 
 
 " To paint her brow " 
 
 " Too plain alas, my doom is spoken " 
 
 455 Two MS. Mems of Mr. Power respecting Sacred Songs and 
 
 Manuscript Songs (3) of thirteen sides in the Autograph 
 of Sir Henry Bishop 
 
 '* 'Tis when the cup is smiling " 
 " I would tell her I love her " 
 " The hght bark that goes " 
 
 456 Manuscript Songs (5) of nine sides, words and Music in the 
 
 Autograph of Moore 
 
 " 'Tis when the cup is smiling" (2) 
 " Smile as you used to do " 
 
 » [" The four last hnes of the Mahratta Air are to be corrected 
 thus, 
 
 " And none can prize her charms like him " 
 " Last verse of * Farewell Theresa' " 
 
 457 One Letter, 4to. four sides, received 11th July, 1820 
 
 Three sides of Music and words in Moore's Autograph for 
 " The blind-folding of Love " 
 And " "Who'll buy my love knots ?" 
 
 " The subjects I send you now are both good for designs, there 
 are many more verses to ' Who'll buy my love-knots,' but the two 
 first would afford an excellent subject to Stothard." " I shall 
 give all the assistance in my power towards the pubhcation of 
 the words of my Melodies, &c. and by having the work set up 
 here, which can be done for eight or ten pounds, the delay and 
 trouble of sending proofs backwards and forwards may be 
 avoided. I shall also write a short preface for you. "We have 
 come on a visit to some friends at Sevres (about 5 or G miles 
 
128 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 from Paris, who have purchased a beautiful place here, and 
 leut us a cottage in their grounds. I shall stay in it as long 
 as I can, for it is perfectly quiet, and surrounded with delicious 
 scenery, and (the last, not least) free of much expense." 
 
 458 Manuscript Songs (3) in Moore's autograph, two with Music 
 
 and words 
 
 " She sung of love" (2). 
 
 " When Lelia touch' d the lute" 
 
 " 'Tis not when lights are shining." 
 
 459 Manuscript Songs (3), 11 pages of Music — the words of one in 
 
 Moore's autograph, marked M. 
 
 " The Sky is bright." 
 M. " The two Fountains." 
 "They are gone." 
 
 460 Manuscript Song, Music and "Words in Moore's autograph (3) 
 
 " Far, far away bewildering world" 
 
 and eight pages of his poetry also in his autograph, one 
 4to., one l2mo. 
 
 4GI Manuscript of " Song of a Lover from the Hyperborean Isle," 
 (5 Verses with Notes) in INIoore's autograph, (with 
 printed proof), 2 sides 4 to. 
 
 " I came from a land in the Sea-bright deep." 
 
 462 Manuscript of two Songs, " The Sky is bright," and " Sappho 
 at her loom," in Moore's autograph, 3 sides 4to. a 
 charming specimen, although unsighted 
 
 " ' Oh my sweet Mother, 'tis in vain 
 I cannot weave, as once I wove, 
 So wildered is my heart and brain 
 With thinking of that youth I love.' 
 
 " This is the subject I want for a Design." " Of the fourth I 
 shall merely give four lines, in order that Mr. Bishop may 
 catch up the idea, and without mending the metre in anytliing 
 more than the two alternate rhymes, ' Balalaika' and ' Ro- 
 meka,' try and hit off some light melody for one or more 
 voices, which I shall afterwards adapt my words to. I should 
 be veiT glad too, if he would either give me any ivordless airs he 
 may have composed, or, when he is at the pianoforte, let him 
 imagine some wild melodies (no matter how wild or unlearned, 
 SD they are but pretty), and I'll answer for giving them a ' vocal 
 habitation and a name.' 
 
 " Oh ! when the tinkling Balaleka 
 Tunes at night its welcome sound, 
 Merrily then the light Ilomoka 
 
 Dance we round and round and round." 
 
SECOND day's sale. 12'J 
 
 463 Manuscript Songs (2), ten sides of JNIusic in the fiutographs of 
 
 Moore (M.) and Sir Henry Bishop 
 M. " The dying warrior to his sword" ") (3) four versos, two 
 "Fare thee well my gallant sword" j sides, 4to. 
 
 " Life is waning fast away" ^ 
 
 M. " Oh, Kathleen dear, i 
 
 To me give ear r 
 
 Nor listen to the Munster man, > Curious pencil 
 
 Inconstant he t notations. 
 
 Will he to thee ^ 
 And offer love to all he can." 
 
 464 Manuscript Songs (3), seven pages of Music, first only of two 
 
 pages in the Autograph of Moore 
 
 " Oh where are they, &c. " They are gone." 
 
 " On one of those sweet nights that oft." (Words only). 
 
 " Of old when Spartans" (for voices and chorus) 
 
 465 Manuscript Songs (3), four pages of Music, two in Moore's 
 
 autograph (M.) 
 
 M. Words of " I love a maid, a mystic maid." (2 verses). 
 " Where ever I wander, that spell is still round me." 
 
 Fragment, presumed to he from M. P. 2 pages 
 " And 'tis the light of laughing eyes 
 
 That leads us to thy fairy shrine." 
 
 466 Manuscript of " When Love, who rul'd as Admiral o'er," in 
 
 autograph of Moore, 10 verses, two sides 4 to. Indorsed 
 by Mr. Power, "Reed. August Vjth, 1828" 
 
 467 Manuscript of an unfinished Song in Moore's autograph " A 
 
 spirit still beside thee goes," one side 4to. three verses ; 
 * the last four lines duplicated 
 
 **Hall of my Sires ! he said," transcript of three verses, 
 corrected by and the fourth in Moore's autograph. 
 "The high born Ladye," (transcript). 
 
 468 Manuscript Songs in Moore's autograph (2), one 4to. one 
 
 irregular. " The world was hush'd — the moon above" 
 (2 verses), second verse to " Place the helm on thy 
 brow." And " Boat Glee" from first act of M. P. 
 
 469 Manuscript Song in Moore's autograph, two sides 4to. "The 
 
 two Loves." Five verses of ten lines each 
 
 470 Manuscript Letter, 8vo. two sides, and Song in Moore's auto- 
 
 graph. Music and words, " Come chase that starting tear 
 away," aiiJeasing lot. 
 
 471 Manuscript Songs (2), four sides, words and Music in Moore's 
 
 autograph, a not less pleasing lot. 
 
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130 SECOND day's sale. 
 
 " Round the world goes." 
 
 " Not from thee the wound shall come." 
 
 4/2 Manuscript Songs (2), four sides, words and music in Moore's 
 autograph 
 " Cupid armed" {indorsed by Mr. Power, Sept. 26, 1826) 
 "Welcome sweet bird." 
 
 473 Manuscript Songs (2), three sides, words and music in Moore's 
 
 autograph 
 
 " The halcyon hangs o'er Ocean " (1S23) 
 
 " The world was hush'd — the moon above " (1826) 
 
 474 Manuscript Song, three sides, of "Steal gently, oh my dear," 
 
 words and music in Moore's autograph, with curious note 
 
 attached, dated 12th instant (June, 1S28?) and Mr. 
 
 Power's indorsement, " To Austin (his music puncher), 
 
 26^/i January, 35." 
 
 " I send you the 2nd Verse of ' Steal gently," and an 
 
 altered setting of it, which, on further consideration, I have 
 
 adopted, as nearer the original air, and altogether, I think, 
 
 better. If Bishop, however, should like any parts of the other 
 
 in preference, he may retain them." 
 
 " I think the Y kiii]^iY in the arrangements of the \st and 
 2nd verses had better remain, H. R. B." 
 
 475 Manuscript Song of ''Thou bid'st me Sing," (2. 1831), three 
 
 sides, music and words in Moore's autograph, with Mr. 
 Power's indorsement as to the receipt in 1831, and pencil 
 one, To Austin, May 7th, 35 " 
 Two pages written upon Moore's musical pocket-book — an 
 interesting Lot. 
 
 4/6 Manuscript Song of " When thou art nigh," two sides, music 
 and words in Moore's autograph. Two sides of IMusic 
 for " Erin, oh Erin," as harmonized in the 3rd number 
 of the Irish Melodies ; and a Copy of the French printed 
 Song, •' Si V0U3 Bl'amiez, Romance Paroles de Mr. 
 H**-*," the music by " Pio Dussek Cianchettini " (often 
 mentioned in Moore's Correspondence with Mr. Power). 
 
 477 Pencil Sketches [« most interesting Lot] (7)' one by Cuitt (the 
 
 English Piranessi) on both sides of a piece of card board. 
 One by Willis for a Vignette to the Irish Melodies — the 
 word Cauolan beaming on an Irish Harp, &c. " Iliitch- 
 inson's piper" (the piper of Moore's travelling Coach com- 
 panion), curious sketch in India ink, and with reference 
 to Cork pohtics 
 
 478 Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, vols. / and 8, ^inbound 1839 
 
 479 Tallis (Thos.) Preces and Litany, set to music 18^7; and 
 others 6 vols. 
 
SECOND day's sale. 131 
 
 480 Instructions for the Clarionet, and other Music a parcel 
 
 •481 Ballads and Songs, by T. II. Bayly, Thos. Moore, etc. in 1 vol, 
 half bound 
 
 -482 Operas de Bochsa, in 1 vol. half hound 
 
 483 Rosellen, Fantaisie Brillantc sur Haydee, etc. 12 
 
 484 Haigh's Twelve petites pieces for the Pianoforte ; and others 
 
 4Sj Blewitt (J.) Organ Service of the Church, 6 Nos. ; Logier's 
 Nine Fughettes for the Royal Seraphine, f> copies 
 
 486 Clarke's Six Serenades for the Pianoforte and Seraphine ; and 
 
 others, by Challoner, Kalkbrenner, etc. 
 
 487 Negro Melodies, and other Vocal Music a parcel 
 
 488 National and Operatic Airs, etc. a parcel 
 
 489 Romberg {A.) The Transient and the Eternal, an ode ; An- 
 
 thems, etc. 
 
 490 Instruction Book for the Pianoforte, 2 copies 
 
 491 Quartetts, Trios, etc. a parcel 
 
 492 Miscellaneous Music, 6oi««(/ G?«rf Mwiow^rf a parcel 
 
 493 Ten Portfolios 
 
 494 Gallery of Comicalities ; The To\vn, etc. 
 
 495 Prints, Drawings, etc. a parcel 
 
 496 Architectural Plans and Drawings of the Stock E.tchange and 
 
 Opera House, on several sheets 
 
 497 Various designs of Buildings in Pall Mall and other parts of 
 
 London 
 
 498 Architectural Plans and Drawings a parcel 
 
 499 Apierica. Various Maps, Views, etc. 
 
 500 Map of London ; and 3 others 
 
 501 Harwood's Plan of London on 42 sheets, shewing the Houses 
 
 and public Edifices then standing 
 
 G. NORMAN, PniNTEH, JIAtDEN LANE, COVENT OAIIDEX. 
 
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