. . . “I am infinitely obliged to you, indeed, for your interference in behalf of our Leyden, who, I am sure, will do credit to your patronage, and may be of essential service to the proposed mission. What a difference from broiling himself, or getting himself literally broiled, in Africa. ‘Que diable vouloit-il faire dans cette galère?’ . . . His brother is a fine lad, and is likely to enjoy some advantages which he wanted—I mean by being more early introduced into society. I have intermitted his transcript of ‘Merlin,’ and set him to work on ‘Otuel,’ of which I send a specimen.” . . .
