TO TIE EDITOR OF THE COURIER.
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SrR-I observe in the Courier of the 25h ult very i'm.
perfect copy of the exqustely beautiful lines, written by
the late Rev Charles Wolfe, the burial of Sir John
Moore, which, in your extracts from eOn's Journal are
incorrectly attributed to Lord Byron As this will be
widely diused by your Paper through every country in
which the English language spoken read anxi,
to correct it through the medium of the Courier ITSELF


On the 10th of April, 1917, received Mr.. Woes lines
and the 18th of the same month they published
with the initials of his namc C. W. annexed in the Neswy
Telegraph, of which was then Editor. They writ
ten, Sir by the author, when student in Trinity College,
Dublin, reading the afec,ingaccont of Sir John Noores
burial published in the Edinb'rgh 4"n"n Register, with
which request you to compare the poem.


From the Merry Telegraph the lines were copied into
various other Journals and Magazines and in their progress
from periodical work to another materially alter
ed but in instance improved. For This reason Sir,
send you copy of the sanzas they originally Appeared
in the Ieegrabh which earnestly entreat you to publish
with this letter. in justice to the memory of of exalted
genius, now, alas no


1t is beyond all question, that Mr. Wolfe was the author
of these stanzas for independently of my testimony
his rentshis felow.sulents--his intimate connex xons
amongst the Clergy of the Established Church, of which
he active, useful, and pious nnister-know, and
prove the fact to be They know, also, that his
Imagination yyIhis taste SO exquisite--hs mind