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I daresay you know something of my name and clan, and the damnable example and lamented end of my late father, to say nothing of my own errata.
It is not likely that he was very happy while doing this. Long afterwards he said: "I reckon this as one of the first errata of my life." What did he mean by errata? Errata are mistakes mistakes that cannot easily be corrected. Three days after leaving Boston, young Franklin found himself in New York. It was then October, in the year 1723. The lad had but very little money in his pocket.
"There's another dreadful stanza in the first edition," he went on. "It is repeated in the second, but left out in the last. I fancy the poet let himself be overpersuaded to omit it. The poem was not actually printed without it until after his death: he had only put it in the errata, to be omitted. When the woman whistles with joy at having won the ancient Mariner,
Be so good as to make out a list of the mistakes and send it at once to Simrock, and say that the work must appear as soon as possible. I must again ask you to undertake the disagreeable task of making a fair copy of the errors in the Zurich Sonata. I have got your list of errata "auf der Wieden."
If Fontana, Wolff, Gutmann, Mikuli and Tellefsen, who copied from the original Chopin manuscripts under the supervision of the composer, cannot agree, then upon what foundation are reared the structures of the modern critical editions? The early French, German and Polish editions are faulty, indeed useless, because of misprints and errata of all kinds.
Paganel, highly incensed at his geographical knowledge being brought in question, and even jested about, allowed his ill-humor to get the better of him, and said: "Know, sir, that my books have no need of such ERRATA." "Indeed! Well, on this occasion they have, at any rate," retorted McNabbs, quite as obstinate as his opponent. "Sir, I think you are very annoying to-day."
Thus I find, from various indications which I need not specify, that some of his critics professed to have discovered flaws in his work, while he honestly thought the criticism superfine, and the errata pointed out such as concerned a mere corrector of the press rather than a serious legislator for practical purposes.
Of this I have been, made disagreeably sensible, by several errata communicated to me by Kossuth in the first great speech at New York, here marked as No. Nearly all the points on which attempts have been made to misrepresent in England the cause of Hungary are cleared up in these speeches.
Having revised the work, I now enclose the errata. I have likewise sent off to-day, per rail, a return-box of Cornhill books. "I have lately read with great pleasure, 'The Two Families. This work, it seems, should have reached me in January; but owing to a mistake, it was detained at the Dead Letter Office, and lay there nearly two months.
It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and this I therefore reckon one of the first errata of my life; but the unfairness of it weighed little with me when under the impressions of resentment for the blows his passion too often urged him to bestow upon me, though he was otherwise not an ill-natured man. Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking."
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