ENPages That Mention Hermann, Gottfried, 1772-1848
Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing his meeting with Baillie's cousin, Mrs. Cunliffe; his impending trip to Wales; his visit to the Junior Water Colours and the British Institution; etc.
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We have four Miss Storys staying in the house, girls from Reading. This is a great advantage - but not to reading.
I have been reading Sophocles with Herr mann's notes which are laborious beyond everything, but a great clue to scholarship I find. I am in misery about my first.
I have written a lot of my Pulate. I am thinking of a Judas, but such a subject is rather beyond me at present. I have added several stanzas to Floris in Italy but it gets on very slowly. I have nearly finished an answer to Miss Rossetti's Convent Threshold, to be called A Voice from the World, or something like that, with which I am present in the fatal condition of satisfaction. I have written three religious poems which however you would not at all enter into, they