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more volumes were published by the Bishop, who died in 1828, a few
months after the publication of the fifteenth and sixteenth volumes. Mr.
Elliott had already died in 1818. The papers now came into the sole
possession of Earl Fitzwilliam, the distinguished nobleman associated
with the latter portion of Burke's life, from whom they descended to his
son, the late Earl Fitzwilliam, who, in conjunction with Sir Richard
Bourke, published, in 1844, the four volumes of correspondence, with a
few notes of unpublished speeches.
We have personal reason to know that there are yet other unpublished
manuscripts of Burke in the hands of Lord Fitzwilliam, some of which it
was our fortune many years ago to inspect. Mr. Macknight, it appears,
applied to the present Earl for permission to publish some of those
which are preserved in the archives of Wentworth House, but, "out of
obedience to the expressed wish of his father, who published all he
thought necessary, he declined to sanction any further publication of
these documents.
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