“I cannot allow a moment to pass without thanking you for your very kind and valuable letter. Some of your hints arrest my intention, and others confirm it, and none will, I assure you, be thrown away. Few things of this kind have, I believe, commenced with more enlarged views or more honourable intentions, or, perhaps, with more extensive and powerful means of giving them effect; but I am not less sensible to the risk of so complicated an enterprise, however well imagined, from the difficulty of its execution. I have never attempted anything with more considerate circumspection, or with more satisfactory hopes of success, but no one can form an estimate of a publication of this kind, until it is published, so accept my best thanks for your good wishes.
“Mr. Lockhart becomes the editor of the ‘Quarterly Review’ after the publication of the next number. Mr. Coleridge’s engagements at the bar have nearly doubled during the last twelve months, and he merely held the appointment until I could make up my mind as to a successor. Mr. Coleridge is, without exception, one of the most truly amiable men I ever met with.
