The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-26
RARE Autographs.
Burns, Keats, COIeridge and DIsracIi
Represented in sale.
From the London Daily News.


From the London Daily News.
A remarkably interesting collection OF
autographs is about to come under the
hammer at Sothebys, in London. There
are number of letters of Burns. In one
the poet says, Il shall certainly make my
plain weather-beaten rustic phiz a part
OF your box furniture" and appeals to his
"nrst and fairest OF critics TO tell wheth-
er he has "mended" his song In PHYS
sake, Forgive Me- to her liking: in an
other ne writes 70 Clarinda: My dearest
you are ever present with me and these
hours that drawl by among the fools and
rascals of this world are only supporta.
bic ia the idea they are the forerunners OF
.hal happy hour that ushers me to the
Mistress of My Soul " Included also is
"a poem by Burns of sixty-six lines. giving
a summary of events which led to the In
dependence, beginning When Guildford
good our pilot stood, and the autograph
manuscript of Holy Willie's Prayer,
containing a stanza not in the copy pur-
chased by the Corporation of kilmar-
mock, ana this has a duly authenticated
pedigree from the time it left the poet
Another lot is an unpublished letter
from Keats 10 b. r.. Hayden: what a
set OF little people We live amongst
With respect to my livelihood |
VIII not write for it, for 1 will not mix
with that most vulgar of all crowds the
literary, 1t is true that in the hight of
enthusiasm l have been cheated into
some me passages, but that is nothing"
Hannah More was the recipient of n good
many of the letters which are to be
offered for sale. Two of these were from
Horace Walpole, who says: AS YOU know
j live TO catch your rigid goodness trip
ping. You know l am forced to
taunt your society, your charity your be-
nihcence, your tender sensibilities be-
cause | cannot find a mental infirmitv
about you: ana again, Il have been la
meuting that you never come eastward
but to be planted like a weeping willow
on the banks of the Thames in the depth
of winter, which too evidently does not
agree with you, and which consequently
you DO not become though you droop
most WilloWly. You are a pretty
positive gentlewOman. though you only
smile when persuaded TO change your
ways.
Colerdge writes in one letter TO Thel-
wall. My first sonnet is obscure: bur YOU
ought TO distinguish between the obscur-
ity residing in the unCommonness of the
thought and that which proceeds from
thoughts unCOnnected with language not
adapted to the expression of them" and
in another to Cottle: Il am seriously H.
The complaint. my medical attendant
says, is nervous, and originating in men>
tai causes l have plaster under my
right ear, and l take laudanum every
four hours, twenty-five drops each dose
God be praised for all things, A faith,
in goodness makes all nature good
In one letter to Disraelis there is ref
erence to secret concerning the decis-
ion of Napoleon III on the Roman ques-
ton coming from a quarter which never
speaks but to regulate my conduct" ana
in another. Il felt it point Of duty to
yield to the solicitations of that great man
PeeD who has delivered Europe and saw
ed England. ~ Last, but not least is an
original manuscript of Hobbies "Prnci-
pies of Law and Pohcie,' which, it is sug-
gested, IS a draft of The Leviathan.''