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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Tq the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
Clapton 9 sm , March 8 , 1809 . A passage in your Obituary of Dr . Gregory , ( voL iii . p . 219 . ) respecting his u Life of Chatter , ton / ' reminds me of a few scraps of information yet in manuscript , concerning that extraordinary
genius . At the sale of Dr . Kippis ' s library ^ soon after his justly lamented decease , in 1795 , I purchased a copy of the " Life of Chatterton , " on a blank page of which * is written ' * Wm . Seward , 17 & 9 > from the author / ' Mr . S .
who died in 1799 j was well known to the literary world by his 4 * Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons / ' " Biographian ^/* and occasional periodical papers . His authority respecting Chatterton is frequently referred to by Dn Gregory .
In this copy of the life , are a few MS * additions i » the same hand-writing as the signature , ar « d which Mr . Seward , by wi * at he has written on the blue cover , evidently designed for the information of Dr . Kippis . The fourth volume of the Biographiar
Brittannica , for which as you observe , Dr . Gregory composed the Life of Chatterton , and in which it was reprinted entire , came out during the same year ( 1789 , ) so that Dr . Kippis had no opportunity of using "Mr . Seward ' fr . communications .
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If you give them a place in the Repository , they may yet gratify some possessor of the Biog . Brit , or of the separate Life * The information of Mr . Seward , was obtained at Bristol , from Mrs .
Newton , the sister of Chaiterton , and from Mr . Cateott and Mr-Barrett , two inhabitants of that city , who are often mentioned by Dr . Gregory , and to whom the public appears to have been chiefly indebted for the preservation of what remains under the name
of Rotvlie . Life p , 8 . Biog . iv . 574 . An anecdote introduced to shew that Chatterton ic very early discover .
ed a thirst for pre-eminence" is thus related , somewhat differently from the printed note , c ^ on the authority of his sister Mrs . Newton , "
** A relation gave Chatterton a Deift dish with the figure of a lion , he replied , make me one with an angel and a trumpet , to blow my name about . The mother has the dish in her possession- Life pu 81 . Biog . ir . 58 < J . Mr . Catcott ' s declaration i 4 that when
he first knew Chatlerton , he was ignorant even of Grammar" is strengthened by the fact " That himself had corrected everal of Chatterton ' s writings . /
Life p . 112 . Biog . iv . 591 . pfl the remark * ' that the inequality of his spirits affected greatly his behaviour in company" is th <^ following MS . not e *
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UNPUBLISHED PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO CIIATTERTON , COL . LECTED BY MR . SEWARD ; COMMUNICATED BY MR , ftUTT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/12/
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