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xviii was brightened for her by her joy in the sea at green and bowery Sidmouth, and the return to health it brought her, and also by the appearance of her third book, the first version of the "Prometheus Bound" of Æschylus. It was struck into too rapid English at Sidmouth in twelve days, as she afterwards told Mr. Horne, "and should have been thrown into the fire afterwards, the only way to give it a little warmth." With it were published the miscellaneous poems appearing in the present edition under the title, "Poems, 1833."

The needs and conveniences of her brothers' future careers dictated a removal to 74 Gloucester Place, London, in the summer of 1835. She tells Mrs. Martin, gayly and pluckily as usual, how she is trying, while longing for the sea, to change her taste and her