Another item of evidence may be cited. It is from a letter written by George Keats to Mr. Dilke in April 1824, and refers to the insolences of _Blackwood's Magazine_. George, it will be remembered, was already out of England before the articles appeared in _Blackwood_ and in _The Quarterly_, and he only saw a little of John Keats at the close of the ensuing year, 1819. "_Blackwood's Magazine_ has fallen into my hands. I could have walked 100 miles to have dirked him _a l'Americaine_ for his cruelly associating John in the Cockney School, and other blackguardisms. Such paltry ridicule will have wounded deeper than the severest criticisms, particularly as he regarded what is called the cockneyism of the coterie with so much disgust. He either knew John well, and touched him in the tenderest place purposely; or knew nothing of him, and supposed he went all lengths with the set in their festering opinions and cockney affectations." And from a later letter dated in April 1825: "After all, _Blackwood_ and _The Quarterly_, associated with our family disease, consumption, were ministers of death sufficiently venomous, cruel, and deadly, to have consigned one of less sensibility to a premature grave.... John was the very soul of courage and manliness, and as much like the Holy Ghost as 'Johnny Keats.'" The evidence of latest date on this subject (there is none such in Severn's correspondence[17]) is that of Cowden Clarke. In his "Recollections," already mentioned, he refers to the attacks upon Keats, having his eye, it would seem, rather upon those in _Blackwood_ than in _The Quarterly_, and he remarks: "To say that these disgusting misrepresentations did not affect the consciousness and self-respect of Keats would be to under-rate the sensitiveness of his nature. He did feel and resent the insult, but far more the _injustice_ of the treatment he had received. They no doubt had injured him in the most wanton manner; but, if they or my Lord Byron ever for one moment supposed that he was crushed or even cowed in spirit by the treatment he had received, never were they more deluded."