Two friends of mine (Mr.
Rogers and Mr. Sharpe) have advised
me not to risk at present any single publication separately, for various reasons. As
they have not seen the one in question, they can have no bias for or against the merits
(if it has any) or the faults of the present subject of our conversation. You say all
the last of the ‘Giaour’ are
gone—at least out of your hands. Now, if you think of publishing any new edition with
the last additions which have not yet been before the reader (I mean distinct from the
two-volume publication), we can add the ‘Bride of Abydos,’ which will thus steal quietly into the world: if
liked, we can then throw off some copies for the purchasers of former ‘Giaours;’ and, if not, I can omit it in any future
publication. What think you? I really am no judge of those things, and with all my
natural
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“P.S. Pray let me have the proofs I sent all to-night. I have some alterations that I have thought of that I wish to make speedily. I hope the proof will be on separate pages, and not all huddled together on a mile-long ballad-singing sheet, as those of the Giaour sometimes are; for then I can’t read them distinctly.”
