[159] A fair specimen of the poetry of Wills is e. g. The Idolatress: and other Poems (1868). On the cover of this volume was advertised a new edition of The Universe, ‘with its true history,’ which however does not seem to have appeared.
[160] Dublin and London Magazine 1826.
[161] William John Fitzpatrick, Lady Morgan: her career, literary and personal, with a glimpse of her friends and a word to her calumniators, London 1860, p. 238.
[162] Lady Morgan’s Memoirs, vol. II p. 154. The anecdote is told by the editor, not by Lady Morgan.
[163] A. A. Watts, op. cit.
[164] A copy of this letter has kindly been communicated to me by Mr Daniel Edwards Kennedy, M. A., Chestnut Hill, Mass. U. S. A.
[165] New Monthly Magazine 1827.
[166] ibid.
[167] Cabinet of Irish Literature, vol. II p. 45.
[168] Gentleman’s Magazine 1825.