“The inventing of the scenes for ‘Wine and Walnuts,’ in its
present stage, is a business of greater difficulty than I had calculated upon.
I have to guard against anachronisms—to support consistency in the characters,
and to account for my history by the agency of an older fellow than myself. To
manage these matters, touching the distance of their days, is the most
difficult part of the scheme. In order, therefore, to reconcile Old Zachery’s apparent inconsistency of
rank, and to make him square with the coteries of learned men, I was obliged to
give the Starch
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“When I send the four subjects promised, I shall beg to know what your coadjutors will afford to give for the work, as I presume those with what are already printed will be sufficient specimens. I do not wish to press the subject upon them, for if it meets not their approval from what will be offered, I will give it to Mr. Ackermann to try what may be made of it in numbers, with characteristic prints in the manner of Dr. Syntax.” * *
