MEMORANDUMS

[Clare’s Appendix no. 5]

There is £400 in the Funds or at least was before it was put in said to be in the joint Names of Taylor and Hessey      I know nothing more

I have had no settlement with Taylor and Hessey yet for neither of the Volumnes and have gone on in a very foolish manner      I am sorry now tho its not too late — one of the best Counselors tells me to ‘put no confidence in Man’ and I believe Expirience is reminding me that wroldly faith is of less worth then nothing but Experience sells her advice very dear and makes every body pay for it. I understand that 7000 of the Poems on Rural Life and Scenery and the Village Minstrel was struck off up to the 4 Edition of the one and 2nd Edition of the other 5000 of the first and 2000 of the Second      I was to have half the profits but I wish I had sold them out and out as others do and then I shoud have had the principal out at use and the interest to live on and now I get nothing as it were

Edward Drury has most of my M.S.S. and Taylor and Hessey has copys and origionals of them all      I have got few or none myself      this hurts me very often      no doubt they will do the right thing and yet there is many doubts they may not

I will have the Shepherds Calender out directly — I will set down before I forget it a Memorandum to say that I desire Mrs Emmerson will do just as she pleases with any M.S.S. of mine which she may have in her possesion to publish them or not as she chuses but I desire that any living names mentiond in my letters may be filled up by * * * and all objectionable passages ommited a wish which I hope will be invariably complied with by all      I also intend to make Mr Emmerson one of the Executors in my new will