[IX.] Happily the language of expostulation in which this Sonnet is written is no longer applicable.

It will be gratifying to Americans and Englishmen (indignos fraternum rumpere foedus) to read the following particulars communicated in a letter from Mr.Reed, dated October 28, 1850.

'In Mr.
Wordsworth's letters to me you will have observed that a good deal is said on the Pennsylvania Loans, a subject in which, as you are aware, he was interested for his friends rather than for himself.

Last December, when I learned that a new edition of his poems was in press, I wrote to him (it was my last letter) to say frankly that his Sonnet "To Pennsylvanians" _was no longer just_, and to desire him _not to let_ it stand so for after time.

It was very gratifying to me on receiving a copy of the new edition, which was not till after his death, to find the '_additional note_' at the end of the fifth volume, showing by its being printed on the unusual place of a fly-leaf, that he had been anxious to attend to such a request.