I thank you for your note; and have much pleasure in acknowledging the liberality shown in your modification of my proposal. With regard to the scene at the Synod: though it is more than three years since I wrote that scene, I recollect being conscious, at the time, that it was un-dramatically managed, and wishing to manage it as your friend has suggested I thought then I could not do it, but, perhaps, I may be able to do it now.
