My Friends and Acquaintance
Laman Blanchard V
Samuel Laman Blanchard to Peter George Patmore, [September? 1844]
“Dear Patmore,—That you
so feel about the New Monthly
Magazine is most gratifying to me. * * *
*
“—— spoke kindly, yet as if some
tiff with you were in the way, and he despaired of
my pleasing all parties, which was the condition on which I was to have the two or three pages—afterwards extended,
by special note, to three and a half, with a desire that I would take to the
twenty-eighth of the month, rather than hurry or spoil it. * *
“I took care, under the circumstances, to ![]()
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put my objections as strong as I
honestly could, as I was anxious that it should not look like a partial and
compromised notice. B——’s letter
satisfied C. that what I said in eulogy was tame and
modest in comparison. That letter I was about to return when you wrote. It is
all that was to be expected from such a mind and such a heart as his; and I
feel happy in the thought that Coventry
secures in him a valuable friend and adviser. * * *
“You may tell Coventry that I have, for the first time, been reading
Miss Barrett’s poems—one at
least—and am raving about her. I thought her a pretender—God forgive me! Pray
give my sincere regards to Mrs. Patmore.
“Yours ever,
“L. Blanchard.”
Elizabeth Browning [née Barrett] (1806-1861)
English poet, author of
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) and
Aurora Leigh (1856); she married Robert Browning in 1846.
Peter George Patmore [Tims] (1786-1855)
English writer and friend of Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt; an early contributor to
Blackwood's, he was John Scott's second in the fatal duel, editor of
the
Court Journal, and father of the poet Coventry Patmore.
New Monthly Magazine. (1814-1884). Founded in reaction to the radically-inclined
Monthly Magazine,
the
New Monthly was managed under the proprietorship of Henry
Colburn from 1814 to 1845. It was edited by Thomas Campbell and Cyrus Redding from
1821-1830.
