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The letter is not in E. V. Lucas's 3-vol. edition of the Lambs' letters (1935). A later edition, printed at the Cornell University Press, covers letters written through 1817 only and would seem to have been abandoned, as the third volume (1809-1817) is dated 1978.

[3]

See R. W. Armour, Barry Cornwall: A Biography of Bryan Waller Procter . . . (1935), pp.310,313.

[4]

And there are the following differences between LM (given first) and the other two texts: l. 4, on/to; l. 9, Practical and/om.; l. 12, their/om; l. 13, And/While; l. 30, sense/l. 40, guess; l. 34, Ashake/l. 44, Shaking; l. 49 Sussex/l. 59, Kentish; l. 51, blunder/l. 61, wander; l. 60, migratory/l. 70, om.; l. 63, if you/l. 73, om.; l. 64; Then/l. 74, And; l. 83, Still start a fresh/l. 93, Still silly bees; l. 87, their/l. 97, in.

[5]

Fog (4:344): l. 9, height/space; l. 29, 'Yond/Beyond. The Son of Melancholy (4:345-6): l. 4, slumbrous/sunlit; last l. nought but/only. Suppose (1:14-15): l. 9, all lone/at last; l. 17, Suppose with delight she cried/And she cried with delight—and delight.

[6]

L. 7, fairest hair/a child's fair hair; l. 9, on/in; l. 16, from midst/amidst; l. 25, that/a; l. 30, Through spicy air mellifluent/A husht, far, wild, divine lament; l. 31, As/When.

[7]

L. 19, Buzzed the bright flies/The bright flies buzzed; l. 41, Oh/On; l. 42, This wondrous coach, this vale of buds and bells/O wondrous vale of jocund buds and bells.

[8]

L. 2, thee/you; l. 6, golden, fair/golden and fair; l. 7, Cupid/Eros; l. 11, oblivion sweet and dim/divine oblivion dim; l. 13, colour/beauty.

[9]

L. 4, even/yet; l. 5, Of bounteous/Even of; l. 7, as in/with; l. 16, wan/cold; l. 19, coldly/on, from; l. 29, athrill/a thrill; l. 31, lips/lip.

[10]

L. 2, As when cherry trees in orchard were a-blow/When in wild beauty, cherries were in blow; l. 3, And, just as fancy/And, as sweet fancy.

[11]

The other revisions are: l. 28, in truth/it's true; l. 67, What was till then/The relics of; l. 68, oh/ah; l. 71, She leaves/They are left; l. 82, wise/l. 102, sage; l. 92, om./l. 112, ev'n; l. 93, Ev'n than in/l. 113, Than those of; l. 95, om./l. 115, What.

[12]

Bernard Shaw Agitations Letters to the Press, 1875-1950, ed. Dan H. Laurence and James Rambeau (1985).

[13]

James Brabazon, Dorothy L. Sayers (1981), p. xvii.

[14]

Belloc wrote to the editor in volume 19 to point out a printer's error in his book on James II, an error that made nonsense of a sentence (p. 409).

[15]

Also by Golding in the LM: What is So Odorous Here and Kindled from Deep Darkness (8:467 and 468), Battlefield (10:347), All Her Beauty is a Ghost (12:578).

[16]

Stephen Wheeler, ed. The Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor, 3 vols. (1937), p. v, states that he excludes poems attributed to Landor, but "certainly not written by him." Which poems, and why "certainly"?

[17]

Included in Selected Poems (1930) but not in Collected Poems (1954).

[18]

By Lester E. Dennon in The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, ed. Paul A. Schilpp (1944).

[19]

The reviews are of Jack B. Yates, The Ameranthers; Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza; G. M. Sargeaunt, The Classical Spirit (34:176, 269, 464-465); New Writing (2), ed. John Hayward, and The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, trans. by Louis MacNeice (35:83-84, 214); Louis MacNeice, Out of the Picture and The Complete Works of Isaac Rosenberg, ed. E. W. Harding and Gordon Bottomley (36:291-292, 386-387); Francis Berry, The Iron Christ (37:658).

[20]

See Selected Literary Criticism of Louis MacNeice, ed. Alan Heuser (1987), pp. 25 and 127.

[21]

Also worthy of mention: A. C. Benson, "Blanche Warre-Cornish" (8:145-158), and a memoir of the recently dead Oscar Browning by Alec Macdonald (9:6-7).