It is in an appendix to collected editions of Mrs. Hemans’ life and works, where she had made notes of subjects from history suitable to write poems upon, unluckily without saying where they came from. I have watched for this story for years . . . I will write to the friend who owns the copy of Mrs Hemans from which I took it.

My dear Mr Palgrave The shortest way will be to send you our number, to which you are very welcome as long as it can be of any use to you - though I should like to have it again ultimately.

You will see that a good deal of the scope of the article goes to the influence of Scott’s works in preparing minds for the Church movement, but the suppressed poetry breaking out is the main ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Charles

Thank you most heartily for the book you have been so kind as to send me. Such lives as those always remind me of that saying of Sir Walter Scott that Mrs Hemans preserved - ‘Do not say that noble blood is wasted, it sends down a roaring voice through all time’

May it lead to fresh worthy deeds -

Yours sincerely C M Yonge