“I beg you will accept of my best thanks for the favour you have done me by sending me four copies of your beautiful translations. I shall retain two of them, as Mrs Stewart and I both set a high value on them as gifts from the author. The other two I shall take the earliest opportunity of transmitting to a friend in England, who, I hope, may be instrumental in making their merits more generally known at the time of their first appearance. In a few weeks, I am fully persuaded, they will engage public attention to the utmost extent of your wishes, without the aid of any recommendation whatever. I ever am,
