“It has not been my fault that you did not get back the proof a day earlier. You sent it off on Sunday; I got it only this morning, Wednesday. I see by the address that it was booked at the White Horse, Fetter Lane, instead of having been sent by the Glasgow mail-coach from the Bull and Mouth.
“I see such lamentable errors in Bentley’s press—such as Praxitites for the sculptor Praxiteles, that I am in total despair as to the rest of my letter being printed with anything like decent correctness, and therefore I have to beg that the copies of my letter for the students may not be struck off till I have had a proof of the magazine
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