ABSTRACT

Taylor to Clare, 18 March 1825, Eg. 2246, fol. 469. The delay in the editing and publication of the volume was causing great annoyance to Clare; Mrs Emmerson kept prodding Taylor, who grew increasingly irritated. He explains his delay in part here: he is convinced ‘that I could not make up Such a Volume from the whole Collection, answering to the Title of The Shepherd’s Calendar, as would surpass the others or equal them in the Estimation of the public’.