Brighton
August 15
Dear Miss Siddons -I am sorry to tell you that my negociation with Mr. Campbell has not terminated success-fully and the honour of raising a 1iterary monument to the fame, the talents, the virtues of Mrs Siddons is not I fear, reserved for me -I spare you t he details -the reasons & causes which I believe to have led to this result -I wrote to Mr Campbell again after receiving your kind & flattering letter, but without alluding to you further than in making a reference to you on the sanction of your family one of the conditions , after a little delay I recd a polite note from Mr Campbell saying that he had
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