Wales

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 13 December [1815]

General Macaulay who has been with us, boasts much of some pleasant hours spent with you in Wales. He is a superior Man, brimful of information One of our best Orientalists. He is just returned from his second visit to , whither he went to see his friend the Duke of Wellington.^* He is going again on a Mission about the French New Testament, which I am happy to say hi /a/ s /been/ circulated by many Priests, to the amount of three Editions. – I hope you have seen Mr. Roberts’ excellent Article on ‘The Church in Danger’ in the last British Review.^* I am glad to find that valuable work is in high repute.

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, [March 1820]

Give me leave to recommend to You a little Poem called ‘the Sceptic’.^* It is written by a young Woman who is living in great Obscurity and almost poverty in Wales. She wrote two Years ago a Poem ‘on the Restoration of the fine Arts to Italy’,^* a little work of great merit, but which I fear never made its way. It abounds in fine taste, elegant diction and great harmony of numbers. She is married to a poor Officer:^* The ‘Sceptic’ is less splendid; but is not only extremely well written, but in a fine Spirit of piety It is too much to hope that dear Mr. Dunn will be a Bishop What an Archbishop of Them [unclear]! God send more such!