“A copy of this still altered is sent by the post, but this will arrive first. It must be ‘humbler’—‘yet aspiring’ does away the modesty, and, after all, truth is truth. Besides, there is a puff direct altered, to please your plaguy renters.
“I shall be at Tetbury by 12 or 1—but send this for you to ponder over. There are several little things marked thus / altered for your perusal. I have dismounted the cavalry, and, I hope, arranged to your general satisfaction. “Ever, &c.
“At Tetbury by noon.—I hope, after it is sent, there will be no more elisions. It is not now so long—78 lines—two less than allotted. I will alter all Committee objections, but I hope you won’t permit Elliston to have any voice whatever,—except in speaking it.”
