“If you have copies of the ‘Intercepted Letters,’ Lady Holland would be glad of a volume, and when you have served others, have the goodness to think of your humble servant.
“You have played the devil by that injudicious suppression, which you did totally without my consent. Some of the papers have exactly said what might be expected. Now I do not, and will not be supposed to shrink, although myself and every thing belonging to me were to perish with my memory.
“Yours &c.“P.S. Pray attend to what I stated yesterday on technical topics.”