The kindness and delicacy of your conduct, during our
communications respecting the Editorship of the Quarterly Review, were
such as to fix, definitely, my own wishes upon the subject. I am therefore most
happy in now finding myself completely free, to testify my sincere esteem, by
offering you that appointment; and most happy shall I be to learn that no
circumstances have intervened to prevent your allowing me again to renew our
friendly negotiations. Should your determination be favourable to my wishes, I
would then ask if, in the absence of our friend Archdeacon
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