TC-[RHH?], 14 Oct. MS: NLS 1808.120. Hitherto unpbd. Addressee probably Richard Henry Horne, as TC wrote in his Journal, 10 Oct.: “One Horne writes last night about ‘notes for a biography’ in some beggarly spirit of the age or other rubbish-basket he is about editing! Rejected, nem. con. What have I do to with their Spirits of the Age? To have my Life surveyed and commented upon by all men, even wisely, is no object with me, but rather the opposite; how much less to have it done unwisely. The world has no business with my Life; the world will never know my Life, if it should write and read a hundred ‘biographies’ of me: the main facts of it even are known, and are like to be known, to myself alone of created men. The ‘goose-goddess,’ whom they call ‘Fame’—ach Gott!— This Horne has a certain fire of energy in him; but it is overgrown with vulgarities; tormented with the necessity to be distinguished: I doubt whether much will come of him.” Horne (1803–84; DNB; see 10:32–33) was compiling A New Spirit of the Age, 2 vols. (1844) with Elizabeth Barrett and others; his essay on TC is in 2:255–80.