[PW] Thomas MacCauley

[Suzy Platt]

>> "Respectfully Quoted" has a note about the Macauley quotation  
>> ("Your constitution is all sail and no anchor.") previously  
>> identified  as from a letter to Henry Stephens Randall.
>>
>> From The Letters of Thomas Babington Macauley, ed. Thomas Pinney,  
>> vol. 6, p. 96 (1981):
>> "This letter, which naturally aroused great interest in the United  
>> States, was published in part as early as 1860 and has frequently  
>> been reprinted since, usually in the season of presidential  
>> elections or at other time of political crisis; . . . I give  
>> Harper's Magazine [February 1877] as the place of first full  
>> publication so far as I have been able to determine.  For detailed  
>> history of the letter to 1925 see H. M. Lydenberg, 'What Did  
>> Macauley Say about America?'  Letters, Bulletin of the New York  
>> Public Library (July 1925), 459-81" (vol. 6, footnote 1, p. 94).
>>
>> "In his Journal for 23 May TBM writes: 'wrote an answer to a  
>> Yankee who is utterly unable to understand on what ground I can  
>> possibly dislike Jefferson's politics' " (footnote 3, p. 94).
>>