“I have not been so inattentive to your former
applications respecting the ‘Foreign Literary Gazette,’ as it may have appeared to you;
for upon every occasion
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“I decline joining in the ‘Foreign Literary Gazette,’ for no other reason than the thorough knowledge of myself—that I should be a restless and teasing partner—and indeed I can absolutely do nothing when I am obliged to act with others.
“With most sincere thanks for your very kind offer, and with the warmest wishes for the success of the undertaking (of which I have not the smallest doubt),
