I write (in the greatest haste) to say, that agreeably to your proposal of my meeting the overture of a lady—a young and beautiful lady, one with whom I have been long enraptured—I will give two hundred pounds for the Wild Irish Girl, now, and fifty pounds on the publication of the second and the third editions respectively.
The two hundred pounds to be drawn for in three notes, of fifty pounds each, at two, four, and six months, from the 1st of May, and the other fifty pounds at nine months from the day of publication.
The fifty pounds from the new editions to be drawn at six months each.
When I wrote my first of the two letters I thought we had sold but six hundred and fifty copies of the Novice, and I then found we had sold seven hundred and ten, my stock-keeper having mistaken.
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I gave you leave, therefore, to draw for the premium on the second edition, and also for fifty pounds on account of my own child, which you have hitherto so cruelly detained, but which I was confident you could not persist in witholding from his fond parent!
My terms were those which a calculation indicated as just and liberal, and you know I told you at the outset that I was nothing better than a calculator!
You will, however, I fear, make something more of me!
I have now advanced fifty steps instead of one, which is more than you desired; you are, therefore, mine, all mine, even by agreement, leaving the will out of the question!
God bless you, and believe me always devotedly,
