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collected before: the enterprise, guided by Copeland, has so
far achieved eight volumes and the year I796.42 Hoffman has
independently produced an edition and discussion of Burke's
correspondence with his Irish friend O'Hara and with New
York.43 Aspinall has continued his relentless publication of the
letters - all the letters - of George III44 and George's son, the
prince of Wales.45 Burke is not to be left in undisputed command
of the 'projects', and Jeremy Benthanvs correspondence comes
next: so far two volumes have been published, taking Bentham
from three years old to twenty-eight (zySo).46 This work is in
the hands of a team; a single-handed devotion to Newman's
letters and diaries, which characteristically starts in the first
place from his conversion though all is in the end to be in print,
has given us nine volumes in nine years.47 The correspondence,
between Gladstone and Granville has much importance for

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