May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 430

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
"CAMPBELL IS A VICIOUS WRITER" WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Clipped portion of an Autograph Letter Signed, "Wm Wordsworth," including only the last 6 lines and closing, to an unknown recipient, thanking him for sending his poem and advising to keep away from the works of [Thomas?] Campbell. The verso, 7 lines of holograph text--possibly more of the letter--crossed out with long diagonal lines: ". . . [T]he only way of ensuring happiness is, to act from a determined resolution to perform our duty (in the good old language of the Church Catechism) 'in that state of life to which it has pleased [God to call him].'" 3 1/2x7 1/2 inches; faint uneven toning, vertical folds. (MRS) Np, nd
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"Excuse the liberty I am taking; Campbell is a vicious writer, and the less a young Poet has to do with his works the better.
"Thanking you for your elegant Poem, and sensible of your grateful acknowledgment (which could not but be acceptable to me) . . ."