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And would to Heaven you could believe it true, for then you would attend to and act upon it.
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This letter was first printed in Mrs Oliphant’s Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and His Sons, Their Magazine and Friends (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 2 volumes, 1897).
James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd, had been a contributor to ‘Noctes’, a symposium of wits published regularly in Blackwood’s Magazine (1822–35). His death (21 November 1835) inspired Branwell, within days, to suggest himself as a possible replacement. The final paragraph of his letter to Blackwood’s Magazine may have been considered too brash to warrant an answer (though the letter was filed in the archives of the publisher). See Daphne du Maurier’s The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (London: Victor Gollancz, 1960), p. 53.
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Orel, H. (1997). Patrick Branwell Brontë, [‘A Letter to the Editor of Blackwood’s Magazine’] (1835), in The Brontës, vol. i, pp. 133–4. In: Orel, H. (eds) The Brontës. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25199-5_6
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