“Sir, I am extremely sorry that any misunderstanding should have arisen between Mundell and Co. and myself, on account of the poems which I am about to publish, and am ready to declare, in the most implicit manner, that they are not to blame for the misunderstanding, and that, on the contrary, their conduct towards me, as booksellers, has always been fair and liberal.
“Your proposal that these poems should be settled on my wife and children, and the copyright secured for their benefit in such a manner that no act of mine should afterwards affect it, accords so very much with my wishes, that I accept it without hesitation, and I cannot but express how grateful I feel to you for having proposed to settle our difference on so kind and liberal a footing.
