“So much had I written when your dear epistle from Buxton
found me; a balm to my wounded and overbalanced mind: ‘Ecce
iterum Crispinus!’ But let me, if possible, forget
my cursed self for one moment, and thank you for the genuine pleasure your book
has given me. I value it not, you know, because its publication has been
eminently successful, but because it deserves that success, and more; and does
to you, and to my friendship for you, infinite honour. I am perhaps not so
great a friend to Lorenzo
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“As it is likely I shall immediately review it (you know for whom), I reserve finding fault with you for that lucubration.
“The head of Lorenzo prefixed is admirable; you could never have got so good a thing here; but I am very much mistaken if, by invigorating a few traits, it would not make an excellent head of Richard III.”
