Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-10-10
WHOLE NO. 1S4.
MARIA EDGEWORTH.

American Review, (the eighty-frt num-
Der of which has just been issued from
the Boston Press for delightful letter
from Miss EDoEwoRTB, of an old date,
but never before communicated TO the
public. 1t is addressed 10 friend tho
celebrated Mrs. Inchbald, Of England,
who had sent her some remarks on the
Tale Of "Patronage." 1t is an admira-
BILE picture Of the candour, paivete, and
good sense Of the author-and we ara
sure will be read with interest, wherever
the work in question is justly apprecia-
ted.
Edgerorth's Torn, Feb. ii, 1914.
/ "My dear Mrs. Inchbald Nobody
living but yourself could or would havs
written the letter i have just received
from you. ] wish you could have been
present when it was read at the break
fast table, that you might have seen
what hearty entertainment and delight it
gave to father, mother, author, aunts,
brothers, sisters, ALTO the number Of
twelve. Loud laughter at your utter de-
testation Of poor Erasrnus-as nauseous
as his medicines and your impa-
tience at all the variety Of impertinent
characters who distract your attention
from Lord Oldborough. Your clinging
to him quite satisfied us ALL it was in his
character that my father placed his de-
pendence; and we all agreed that you
had not liked him, there would have
been no hopes for us. We are, in the
main, of your opinion, that Erasmus and
his letters are tiresome; but then please
l Ito recollect that we had our moral to
work out, to show, to the satisfaction Of
the reader, how, in various professions,
young men may get on without patron
age. Wherever we are tiresome, wo
may be pretty sure Of this; and after all,
as Madame de Stael says, "Good inten-
: tions 90 for nothing in works of art -
much better in the French, La bonnie in
i tention Nest de ''ien en- tai d'esprit. You
will make me forswear truth altogether;
for | find whenever | meddle with the
least bit Of truth, ! can make nothing OF
it, and it regularly turns out i'll for me-
The things to which you object are facts,
e "a nobleman, whom ] never saw, and
whose name i have forgotten, (else /
, should not have used the anecdote, said
= the word you thought ! could not have
d written and ought not to have known
e how to spell. But, gray observe, that
the fair authoress does not say this odi-
y Gus word in her own proper person
= Why imputc to me the characteristic inn
# proprieties of my characters! / meant to
mark the contrast between his Grace's
pride and the coarseness Of his express
sion. have now changed the word Sc
rere into coarse to mark this to the read
}. er; but l cannot alter without spelling
sh the fdct-I tried If salira would do, but
it would not; so you must bear it as wei
as you can, and hate his Grace Of Green
wich as much as you will,-but don
hate me. Did you hate Cervantes fo
drawing Sancho Panza eating behinc
the door
"My next fact you say, is all old sto
ry; and may be il belonged to your wild
ow originally but ] can assure you j
happened very lately to a gentleman ir
Ireland, and only the parting with the
$; servant was added. ] must admit the
story is i'll told and not worth telling; ant
1t, you must admit that it was natural, or i
r; would not have happened twice.
1.-The sixpence under the seal is my
third fact. This happened in our owl
family. One of my own grandfather,
uncles forged will, and my grandfa:he
recovered the estate my father now pos
sesses, by the detection Of IT,. forgery Is
a sixpence under the seal. agree with
$, you that it was quite ill-judged and awk
r ward TO tell that the old man was perjur
j, ed, before his perjury was detected.
have sent to have that altered i wish
- if it is not too much trouble, you woult
take the trouble to alter it, and send you
u correction to Johnson, ST. Paul's Church
IT, yard, 10 Mr. Miles; for have not AM
IS, cannot get the fourth volume, and / hav,
a been obliged 10 write to the corrector @
the press, and TO trust to his discretion
nd and he may bungle it. ] hope the fourt
volume will not be reprinted before thi
reaches you.
- "Thank you, thank you, thank you
nc for liking the two Clays but pray dor
- envelope all the country gentlemen {
England in English Clay.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you
says my father, for liking Lady Jan
v. Granville. Her lodysh is his favorite
a but nobody has mentioned her in thci
letters but yourself; l cannot believ
that you ever resemblcd that selfish hol
= low-hearted Lady Angelica.
=, Would you have ever guessed that th
nd II charoctcr nj Rosamond is like Mu A