“A week of excessive hurry will, I hope, plead my apology for not having thanked you for your kind and obliging note before. I now avail myself of a respite from business to express my sense of the polite and frank terms in which it was couched, with sincere gratification and acknowledgment.
“The unceasing civilities of Mr. Colburn have rendered my communications with the ‘Literary Gazette’ very pleasant from its first commencement. If any circumstance could have added to my satisfaction in that connection, it was the fortunate co-operation of a gentleman so capable of promoting the interests of that journal, and of appreciating the labours of its literary correspondents.
“I was at Drury Lane last night, and sate out three acts of Stanley’s ‘Rover!’ Alas, poor Drury!
