I do not suppose it likely that any of my works should be reprinted
after my Death. Possibly the three Plays from the Greek, and
Calderon's Magico: which have a certain merit in the Form they are
cast into, and also in the Versification.
However this may be, I venture to commit to you this Box containing
Copies of all that I have corrected in the way that I would have them
appear, if any of them ever should be resuscitated.
The C. Lamb papers are only materials for you, or any one else, to use
at pleasure.
The Crabbe volume would, I think, serve for an almost sufficient
Selection from him; and some such Selection will have to be made, I
believe, if he is to be resuscitated. Two of the Poems--'The Happy
Day' and 'The Family of Love'--seem to me to have needed some such
abridgement as the 'Tales of the Hall,' for which I have done little
more than hastily to sketch the Plan. For all the other Poems, simple
Extracts from them will suffice: with a short notice concerning their
Dates of Composition, etc., at the Beginning.
My poor old Lowestoft Sea-slang may amuse yourself to look over
perhaps.
And so, asking your pardon for inflicting this Box upon you I am ever
sincerely yours