“I have got your extract, and the ‘Vampire.’ I need not say it is not mine. There is a rule to go by; you are my publisher (till we quarrel), and what is not published by you is not written by me.
“Next week I set out for Romagna—at least, in all probability. You had better go on with the publications, without waiting to hear farther, for I have other things in my head. ‘Mazeppa’ and the ‘Ode’ separate?—what think you? Juan anonymous, without the Dedication; for I won’t be shabby, and attack Southey under cloud of night.
