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1821. June 3d.
To Carvalho.

At the time of his mentioning the order expected for the
translation of my works, Dr. Rocha gave intimation of, an expectation a notion
on his part, that perhaps it was to his hands that the business
should might be committed. Unalloyed at the time, was the satisfaction
which that information gave me: for, according to every judgment
I could form, hands so well qualified could hardly have been hoped
for; hands better qualified could hardly be wished for. Upon further
acquaintance, however; the hope of seeing any considerable
result from such a source has been reduced to a very small
matter. For an undertaking such as this, without assiduity and
steadiness, all the talent in the world would be worth nothing
and in those qualities – those humble trivial but not the less indispensable
qualities – in those he has, according to such observation as it
has lain in my way to make, added to the riposte of those whose opportunities
have been more abundant, he appears to be seems deficient, and to a
degree which, considering the opportunities you must have had, how many years it the length of time that your personal
can scarcely be matter of surprise to you intercourse with him has ceased, may naturally enough be new to you. His pamphlets, for
example, as he calls them – the productions which, upon the
face of them should be periodical, coming out on a certain
day in every month, (I believe the 1st.), never scarce ever are so: and thus
it is, that he feels fails on a point on which the most ordinary productions
of the same class never fail: ruin being regarded by them
as a necessary consequence of any such failure. The Edinburgh
Review, it is true, does thus indulge itself; and, for aught I know,
so may the Quarterly: but these are not monthly but both of them quarterly publications:
and when, by a sale of from 12. to 15,000 copies, two political
publications have respectively established themselves, each of
them in the character of the principal literary instrument, – in the
hands of a party in the State, and such a State, – liberties may be
taken by them, such as prudence would never venture to recommend
to the Editor of a periodical which, at so vast a distance
in point of time, from the Country it looks to for the chief part of
its circulation, has three competitors to contend with.

Identifier: | JB/013/184/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1821-06-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	184	Info in main headings field	to carvalho
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2772, vol. 10	ID Number	4633
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