May 7, 1850.
[To this we may add, that about 1767, when Bishop Percy
printed these twenty-five sheets of poems of Lord Surrey and
the Duke of Buckingham, it appears by a letter of the Bishop
to Horace Walpole, that he presented a copy of them to
Walpole, with a request for information about Lord Surrey. The
Bishop never wrote the Life of Surrey; and in 1808 the whole
impression was burnt, with the exception of a copy or two that
the Bishop had given to his friends. In the letter to Walpole
the Bishop says, "A few more leaves will complete that book,
which with the second and Dr. Surrey's Songs and Sonnets, &c.
will be sufficient for the book."]
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