“I am fully competent to give you every account of Forteguerri and his Ricciardetto; I only want to know how soon you want it, that I may consult my time.
“Lord Holland has been long (fourteen days) afflicted by the gout: now he is without pain, and keeping him company at the Company’s dinner-time, I will enter again on conversation about the letters.
“These letters are a correspondence between him and me on the subject of my criticism on some of his Italian verses, which he amused himself to write in the time of his recess from Parliament; I received corrections in answer; I approved or objected again, &c., &c.
“I do not know how far the letters are worthy to be printed; but the poetry, certainly it is. The late Monk Lewis printed some songs, but very badly, because he did not send me the proofs, and did not attend to my advice, which he agreed.
