The life and letters of Edward Young . rtaking; but I am at present not at leisure to reviewwhat I formerly writ. More than six months elapsed ere thepersistent bookseller wrote again, this time for a portrait. I have no picture, Young replied, or it should be at yourservice. Nor have I the Epistle to Lord Lansdowne. Butif you will take my advice, I would have you omit that, andthe Oration on Colonel Codrington: I think your collectionwill sell better without them. I wish you success.1 Thiswas sufficient for Curll. He duly advertised his edition ofDr. Youngs Pieces as made by his approbation a
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The life and letters of Edward Young . rtaking; but I am at present not at leisure to reviewwhat I formerly writ. More than six months elapsed ere thepersistent bookseller wrote again, this time for a portrait. I have no picture, Young replied, or it should be at yourservice. Nor have I the Epistle to Lord Lansdowne. Butif you will take my advice, I would have you omit that, andthe Oration on Colonel Codrington: I think your collectionwill sell better without them. I wish you success.1 Thiswas sufficient for Curll. He duly advertised his edition ofDr. Youngs Pieces as made by his approbation and underhis own direction. If, he failed with the bishop hesucceeded with the rector. Two of the notes just quoted were addressed from Welwyn ;the third was written at Tunbridge Wells on the 4th of August, 1740. That place and date bring us to the commencementof the most considerable bulk of Youngs correspondence—a correspondence with the Duchess of Portland whichcontinued to within a month of his death. 1 Bod. MS. Rawl. Letters, 90.. MARGARET DUCHESS OF PORTLAND By Thomas Hudson From the portrait at WcTbeck Abbey, reprodueed by the kind permission of his Grace the Duke of Portland, K.G. HOLY ORDERS 115 At the time when the letters begin Margaret CavendishHarley was in her twenty-fifth summer, and had been marriedsome six years to William Bentinck, the second Duke of Port-land, who was reported to be the handsomest man inEngland. From her father and grandfather, the first andsecond Earls of Oxford, the young duchess had inherited thatlove of the fine arts and kindly feeling towards men andwomen of letters which were her chief characteristics ; fromher earliest childhood she had revealed a temperament whichhad made her the idol of all who enjoyed her acquaintance.She had barely completed her first year when her grandfatherreferred to her as our sweet Peggy ; in her third summer asedate Oxford don described her as in perfect health andwantonness and as promising to be an admirab