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THOMAS CAMPBELL.
ORIGINAL COPY OF THE " PLEASURES
OF HOPE."
As the Poet Campbell will doubtless find a bio-
grapher, and at no distant date, it becomes a matter of
importance that everything given to the public con-
cerning him should be correct and consistent with
fact. Of late we have perused several letters now in
the custody of private individuals in Edinburgh, some
of them- from the poet himself, written at an early
period ; others from his mother, who seems to have
been a woman of intelligence and strong good sense.
These documents are indispensable to the writer of a
life of Campbell ; but we have no intention to allude
to them further at present, than merely to intimate
the fact of their existence. What we wish to correct
in thus adverting to the subject is a passage in an
article on Campbell in the last number of Fraser's
Magazine, which contains some curious and interest-
ing anecdotes of the poet. At page 344, the writer
of the article observes :

" I have often heard it said, and in Campbell's life•
time, that there was a very different copy of 4 The
Pleasures of Hope' in MS., in the hands of Dr. An-
derson's family; and I once heard the question put to
Campbell, who replied, with a smile, 0 dear, no
nothing of the kind.' The alterations which the poem
underwent by Anderson's advice may have given rise
to a belief that the poem was at first very unlike what
we now see it."

At what period the question was put •-to the poet
does not appear ; if at a late period of his life, distance
of time might have made the circumstance escape
his memory, for assuredly such a MS. exists, and
has been for several years in the possession of Mr.
Patrick Maxwell, editor of Miss Blamire's poetical
works. It originally belonged to the late Dr. Murray,
Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of
Edinburgh, is in good preservation, and is in the hand-
writing of the poet. The whole poem consists only
of about 40 or 50 paragraphs, and altogether scarcely
amounts to one-half of what it now does ; it extends
over 20 pages of MS., and may contain about 400
lines. At the end of the poem is " The Irish Harper's
Lament for his Dog," tune—" The Nine Links of
Yellow," word for word as it is now printed under the
title of " The Harper." It is truly stated by the
writer in Fraser, that the introduction to the " Plea-
sures of Hope" underwent many alterations ; and how
much it stood in need of it, and how much it was
beholden to Dr. Anderson's exquisite taste and friendly
advice, may be gathered from the following extract
from the beginning of the poem in the MS. before us,
which we insert with Mr. Maxwell's permission, and
which may be considered as a literary curiosity :