DEAR Murray! Moxon I mean.—I am not to be making you pay postage every day, but cannot let pass the congratulations of sister, brother, and “Silk Cloak,” all most cordial on your change of place. Rogers approving, who can demur? Tell me when you get into Dover St. and what the No. is—that I may change foolscap for gilt, and plain Mr. for Esqr. I shall Mister you while you stay—
If you are not too great to attend to it, I wish us to do
without the Sonnets of
Sydney; 12 will take up as many pages, and be too palpable a fill
up. Perhaps we may leave them out, retaining the
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Not an inapt quotation, for your fallen predecessor in Albemarle Street, to whom you must give the coup du main—
Murray, long enough his country’s pride. Pope.
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[Then, written at the bottom of the page] there’s [and written on the next page] there’s nothing over here.
