“I have been reading with great interest and pleasure your ‘Recollections’ of Hazlitt. They are full of fine tact and perception, as well as a healthy philosophy. I wish all men of genius had such biographers—men who, alive to their powers of mind, could look with charity and toleration on their failings. Your ‘Recollections’ of him made me very sad, for they explained much that I had not previously comprehended in his troubled life. How he must have suffered!
“What a clever production ‘Jerrold’s Magazine’ is,
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