ABSTRACT
Written untitled on a single sheet folded into a letter, dated ‘Horsham June Seven 1811’ above the outside address (a complete facsimile is given by Rogers, who first printed the poem, with commentary-see below). Graham had evidently played up with a letter of mock-penitence to the scandal reported of him in S.’s previous letters (see headnote to No. 56), and this poem follows up the joke (such as it is) by pretending that S.’s father will accept no apologies. S. had taken advantage of his father’s absence to accompany his mother and sister Elizabeth for a week’s stay (his second recent visit) at his uncle’s at Cuckfield, and had picked up Graham’s letter on his return on 2 June (L i 95).
