“Nothing but overwhelming business could have prevented my thanking you expressly for the kindness which induced you to put the Bellingham Manuscript into my possession—I have never been insensible of your constant and unwearied regard to my gratification, of which your note of this morning affords another proof.
“I can have no other objection than that which arises unaffectedly from the time and labour which it must cost you to add anything so valuable to what you have already so kindly bestowed.
