“11, Orchard-street, May 8, 1821.
“Dear Sir,
“I like all your corrections but one—formation— which you propose instead of origin. Its formation has had some aid from one of his Majesty’s
Ministers; its origin had no connection whatever with the Ministry.
“I have not Mr.
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request you to give my thanks to him
for his obliging present of the second part of ‘
Paris in 1815,’ and especially for
the ten admirable pages which are prefixed to it.
“I am, dear Sir,
“Yours faithfully,
Thomas Burgess, bishop of Salisbury (1756-1837)
Educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was domestic chaplain to
Shute Barrington, bishop of St. David's (1803) and Bishop of Salisbury (1825).
George Croly (1780-1860)
Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, and essayist for Blackwood's; his gothic novel
Salathiel (1828) was often reprinted.