I sent you an alteration for the advertisement, to run thus—“To this edition is prefixed an Apology for the Author and the Book.”
Since yesterday I have now the satisfaction of adding that the Apology is quite finished—and to my content! I do think it to be much superior to anything in the work itself; and I am very desirous of you and Dr. Grant seeing it. It is very entertaining; I think the sense is not heavy, and the humour genuine and pointed. I am sure there are several original views in it, as the whole is a defence of ‘Flim-Flamming.’ I think it ought to be expressed thus in the advertisement.
You mentioned something about the Doctor’s dining at your house to-morrow. Does he? I am going to the Institution to hear Mr. Dibdin on British Literature.