Andrew Marvell

I write to beg your opinion of the inclosed Poem as one of those I intended to pass off as the writings of others — this I sent to the Everyday Book as the publication of Andrew Marvel, and the Editor took it for granted that it was so and paid me a compliment in praising it which he would not have done perhaps had it passed under my own name, and as I still have thoughts of going on with the deception I have sent it to request your opinion of it. I know nothing of the writings of the old Poets further than the Specimens of Ellis and the Songs of Ritson, but the idea of their manner is all I want to be acquainted with — I had read that Marvel was a great advocate for liberty and as death is a great leveller I thought it would add to the disguise to father upon him that subject.