“It is all very well, except that the lines are not numbered properly, and a diabolical mistake, page 67, which must be corrected with the pen, if no other way remains; it is the omission of ‘not’ before ‘disagreeable,’ in the note on the amber rosary. This is really horrible, and nearly as had as the stumble of mine at the threshold—I mean the misnomer of Bride. Pray do not let a copy go without the ‘not;’ it is nonsense and worse than nonsense as it now stands. I wish the printer was saddled with a vampire.
“P.S. It is still hath instead of have in page 20; never was any one so misused as I am by your devils of printers.
“P.S. I hope and trust the ‘not’ was inserted in the first edition. We must have something—any thing—to set it right. It is enough to answer for one’s own bulls, without other people’s.”
