MY dear M.—I send you the last proof—not of my friendship—pray see to the finish. I think you will see the necessity of adding those words after “Preface”—and “Preface” should be in the “contents-table”—I take for granted you approve the title. I do thoroughly—Perhaps if you advertise it in full, as it now stands, the title page might have simply the Last Essays of Elia, to keep out any notion of its being a second vol.—
Well, I wish us luck heartily for your sake who have smarted by me.—
