Enclosed is the article upon ‘Emma.’ I have been spending my holidays in the country, where, besides constant labour in the fields during all the hours of daylight, the want of books has prevented my completing the Highland article. [The ‘Culloden Papers,’ which appeared in next number.] It will be off, however, by Tuesday’s post, as I must take Sunday and Monday into the account of finishing it. It will be quite unnecessary to send proofs of ‘Emma,’ as Mr. Gifford will correct all obvious errors, and abridge it where necessary. I have obtained a promise of a provision for poor Archie Park; pray say so, with my best respects to Mr. Whishaw. I have sent a commission to Wurz and Treuttel to procure me the Benedictine edition of the French Historians.* If they should advise you that they have succeeded, and draw upon you for the price, please advise me, that I may put you in funds. I desired them to draw upon you at a month’s sight. I wrote Lord Byron a few days since. But I must to the Highlands in great haste, so this is all at present from
