I WISH you would omit “by the author of Elia,” now, in advertising that damn’d “Devil’s Wedding.” I had sneaking hopes you would have dropt in today—tis my poor birthday. Don’t stay away so. Give Forster a hint—you are to bring your brother some day—sisters in better weather.
Pray give me one line to say if you receiv’d and
forwarded Emma’s pacquet to
Miss Adams,
and how Dover St. looks.
Is there no Blackwood this month?
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What separation will there be between the friend’s preface, and the Essays? Should not “Last Essays &c.” head them? If ’tis too late, don’t mind. I don’t care a farthing about it.