“I leave you the article on Campbell; where decyphered you will find it very well written indeed—the author has too much genius to be rich. Yours very
truly,
“My address is 4, Brownlow-street,
Gray’s-inn.”
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
Scottish poet and man of letters; author of
The Pleasures of Hope
(1799),
Gertrude of Wyoming (1808) and lyric odes. He edited the
New Monthly Magazine (1821-30).
Charles Phillips (1786 c.-1859)
Irish poet and barrister whose flamboyant extempore style provoked, among other notices,
two critical articles by Henry Brougham in the
Edinburgh Review;
they later became political allies.
