Life and Letters In Three Volumes Author:Thomas Campbell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Original Publisher: Moxon Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fr... more »om more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Jet. 28.] PITT -- LADY E. FOSTER -- NEW SALARY. 77 to have the beginning of a fortune laid. You will be of great service to Campbell in this respect, when you come to London; for nobody here knows him domestically enough, to speak freely to him on these subjects. You must teach him to consider this subscription as an exertion which cannot with propriety, nor even, perhaps, with success, be tried another time: and that from this time, he must look forward to a plan of income and expense wholly depending upon himself, and most strictly adjusted. He gets four guineas a week for translating foreign Gazettes at the " Star" office; it is not quite the best employment for a man of genius, but it occupies him only four hours of the morning ; and the payment ought to go a great length in defraying his annual expenses. You will be able to convey to Campbell these views of his situation, and others that will easily occur to you; none of us are entitled to use so much freedom with him. Be sure to leave Campbell's affairs at Edinburgh in zealous hands. F. HORNER. With this letter closed the year 1805 -- an eventful year to Campbell. It had dawned upon him with many evil omens, and found him involved in many difficulties, from which there was no visible means of escape ; but it left him in improved health, with new friends, a settled income, and cheering prospects, as if to prove that -- " When Fortune means to men most good She looks upon them with a threatening eye." CHAPTER IV. SUBSCRIPTION EDITION. Among the more active and zealous of the Poet's new acquaintance was the family o...« less