What would I not have given to have been with you yesterday?
One half-hour’s conversation would have been such a relief to us both, as
I know I could at once have taken a load off your mind, by assuring you that
everything will go on well, as in future there will be nothing in the magazine
which will give any proper ground for outcry being raised against it. I can
easily conceive the state of mind you must have been in, and I feel quite happy
that you have written me so fully and freely. It is needless, however, for you
to distress yourself about what is past, for really when you examine the matter
again calmly and coolly, there is not such ground for alarm as you fear, and
friends have conjured up; and as to the future, I now feel perfectly at ease.
Your letter has
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