The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...

The Salamanca Corpus: The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842)
little fitted to appreciate her talents; and all concerning her with which their memories are
stored is, that she was a fine, lively young lass. Had my good fortune but made me
acquainted
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with the late worthy Mrs Blamire of Thackwood, whose clear memory and vigorous
understanding remained entire down to the date of her death, I should have been put in
possession of much relative to her sister, which is now irretrievably lost. Mrs Brown of
Newcastle could also have furnished me with much valuable information, and she too is
gone; for, from the notes in her MSS., and transcriptions of her sister’s poetry, I have been
induced to think that she had at one time meditated their publication. Mrs Colonel Graham
of Gartmore, to whom her sister Susan left by will the principal part of her effects, would
also have been of great service to me; but she also is dead. The Misses Graham of
Gartmore, to whom several of the poems are addressed (especially one, exceedingly
interesting as descriptive of herself), I have been unfortunate enough not to reach, and
know not if they are still alive. A few years more, and the little which has been gathered
together would have perished; and the name of her whom every one loved and admired,
whom every one delighted to see and associate with, would only have been known in
connexion with her incomparable “ Nabob” and “ What ails this heart o’ mine.”
EDINBURGH, 5 ARCHIBALD PLACE,
May, 1842.