. 'Christopher North', a memoir of John Wilson ... : compiled from family papers and other sources . gat Elleray. If it is too large to go by post, copy it over in onelong sheet, and send it off on Thursday. If it can go by post,write on Tuesday—same day you receive this. On receiving yourletter to-morrow, I will write you at length, and tell you when Icome home, which will be immediately. It was impossible to leavetins hitherto, for reasons I will explain. You will have heard ofMaggy since I saw her. I will see her on Wednesday, and tell youall about her. Whatever my anxieties and sorrows are
. 'Christopher North', a memoir of John Wilson ... : compiled from family papers and other sources . gat Elleray. If it is too large to go by post, copy it over in onelong sheet, and send it off on Thursday. If it can go by post,write on Tuesday—same day you receive this. On receiving yourletter to-morrow, I will write you at length, and tell you when Icome home, which will be immediately. It was impossible to leavetins hitherto, for reasons I will explain. You will have heard ofMaggy since I saw her. I will see her on Wednesday, and tell youall about her. Whatever my anxieties and sorrows are or may bein this life, I have in your affection a happiness paramount to all onearth, and I think that I am happier in the frowns of fortune, withthat angelic nature, than perhaps even if we had been living inaffluence. God forever bless you, and my sweet family, is theprayer of your loving and affectionate husband, J. Wilson. There are no more letters or memorials of that year. The nextbrings us into a new field, which calls for a chapter to itself. * A playful soubriquet for his eldest Patrick Koberteon, Esq.—From a sketch by the latu Professor Edward Forbes LITERATURE. BLACKWOOD^ MAGAZINE. 153 CHAPTER VIII. LITERATURE. —BLACKWOODS MAGAZINE. 1817-1820. With the year 1817 we enter on a new epoch in Wilsons his literary exertions had been confined almost exclu-sively to poetry; and the reception of his works, however favorable,had not been such as to satisfy him that that was the department inwhich he was destined to assert his superiority, or to find full scopefor his varied powers. Much as has been said as to the mode inwhich these were exercised, and the comparative inadequacy of theresults, I cannot but think that there is misconception on the dismiss the question what he or any other man of great powersought to have done : I look simply at what he did do, which aloneconcerns us, now that his work is finished. Whether he might orshould h
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