“All these news are very fine; but nevertheless I want my
books, if you can find, or cause them to be found for me,—if only to lend them to
Napoleon in ‘the island of Elba,’
during his retirement. I also (if convenient, and you have no party with you) should be
glad to speak with you for a few minutes this evening, as I have had a letter from
Mr. Moore, and wish to ask you, as the best
judge, of the best time for him to publish the work he has composed. I need not say,
that I have his success much at heart; not only because he is my friend, but something
much better—a man of great talent, of which he is less sensible than I believe any even
of his enemies. If you can so far oblige me as to step
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“P.S. I see Sotheby’s Tragedies advertised. The Death of Darnley is a famous subject—one of the best, I should think, for the drama. Pray let me have a copy, when ready.
“Mrs. Leigh was very much pleased with her books, and desired me to thank you; she means, I believe, to write to you her acknowledgments.”
