ABSTRACT
From a letter to J.B.Henson, copied by Henson and sent back to Clare two years later (31 March 1820) as a reminder of their former relationship (see Introduction, p. 2), Eg. 2245, fol. 75. Henson was the bookseller who undertook to publish Clare’s proposals for a subscription, and who was now pressing Clare to let him publish his next volume. John Taylor (see No. 5) thought Henson was treated too favourably in Octavius Gilchrist’s account, in the Quarterly Review, of the publishing history of Poems Descriptive (see No. 25).
