“I send you Adam’s and Riley’s Travels. You will observe I don’t want a review of the books, or a detail of these persons’ adventures, but merely a short article expressing the light, direct or doubtful, which they have thrown on the interior of Africa. ‘Recent Discoveries in Africa,’ will be a proper title. I hope to find you materially amended, or rather quite stout, when I come out on Saturday. I am quite well this morning. Yours, in haste,
“P.S.—I add Mariner’s Tonga Islands and Campbell’s Voyage. Pray, take great care of them, as I am a coxcomb about my books, and hate specks or spots. Take care of yourself, and want for nothing that Abbotsford can furnish.”