“Many thanks for your kind note. You will, of course, receive one of the earliest Comics. It is at present riding on my back, like a centipede spurred on each foot, to be out by 1st December.* This must be my excuse for haste. As it is all but a monopolylogue, it takes all my moments at present.
“You will receive one of these days a reprint of ‘Eugene Aram’s Dream,’ with designs by Harvey. It was coming out with the ‘Comic,’ but will precede it. It has already been indebted to your good word, without plates, and I dare say you will find something very praiseable in those. With reciprocation of kind regards, I was, is, and shall be,
