Ambleside | April 13th
My dear Sir
I am greatly obliged to you, & to your correspondent1 (who is, however, a stranger to me) for correcting the mistake in my history regarding your countenance of the Acarus Crossi2. I am anxious to be informed of every error of statement in my history, as there will be a new edition next year3, & it is of some importance that I should be set right in time. It never occurred to me to doubt the authority of the Annual Register in a matter of such straight-forward contemporary statement & it is really difficult to see how one can make sure of one’s material. However, I will take care that this mistake is rectified, & will explain the case whenever I have opportunity.
Believe me, dear Sir, with | the highest respect, your obliged | Harriet Martineau
I return Mr Cowper’s note4.
MARTINEAU, Harriet (1849-50): The History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace: 1816-1846, 2 volumes, London.
MARTINEAU, Harriet (1858): Pictorial History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace: 1816-1846, New edition, London.
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