“My dear Sir,—To-morrow and Friday business rises almost above smothering point with me, over chin and mouth! but on Saturday evening I shall be perfectly at leisure, and shall calendar an evening apart with you on so interesting a subject among my ‘Noctes Atticæ.’ If this do not suit your engagements, mention any other day, and I will make it suit mine.—Yours with esteem,
“P.S.—How many thousand
letter-writers will in the first fortnight of this month write a 7 first,
and then transmogrify it into an 8, in the dates of their letters! I like
to catch myself doing that which involves any identity of the human race.
Hence I like to talk of the weather, and in the fall never omit observing,
| 2 | WILLIAM GODWIN |
