“Though you have not opened to me any new source of interest or instruction, I thank you sincerely for the volumes you have sent me, and for the few words in the first page which put on record my title to them.
“They are duplicates of a work which has been in my possession since the first day of its publication. I am very familiar with its contents; and have no feeling connected with my general recollection of them, but those to which the combination of good sense, wit, and genius naturally give rise.
“Believe me, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours,