Note 35 — Chapter IV · THE LEYDEN AND ERSKINE MEMOIRS OF BABER.
Annette Susannah Beveridge translation
A Correspondent combatting my objection to publishing a second edition of the Memoirs, backed his favouring opinion by reference to ‘Umar Khayyam and Fitzgerald. Obviously no analogy exists; Erskine’s redundance is not the flower of a deft alchemy, but is the prosaic consequence of a secondary source.