J'  When  you  have  got  the  whole  four  cantos,  I
think  you  might  venture  on  an  edition  of  the  whole
poem  in  quarto,  with  spare  copies  of  the  last  two  for
the  purchasers  of  the  old  edition  of  the  first   two.
There  is  a  hint  for  you,  "w
now,  perpend — pronounce.
"  I  have  not  received  a  w
of  *  Manfred '  or  *  Tasso,'  w
whether  they  have  failed  or

"  As  this  18  a  scrawl  of  bi
ly  written  at  length  and  oft
will  only  add  that  I  am,^&c.
LETTER  C(

TO  MB.  Mr

"UM]

"  Your  letter  of  the  18th
you,  as  it  did  me,  that  par
natured  aid  and  abetment
rived. — Messrs.  Lewis  and  ]
former  in  the  same  bouse,  tl
yards  distant.
"  You  say  nothing  of  M
failure  may  be  inferred ;  b
should  not  say  so  at  once,
hear  absolutely  nothing,  of
in  England  ;  and  there  are
that  all  you  say  will  be  m
thing,  or  things.  I  am  at
about  Newstead,  and  sorry  1
England  at  this  minute,  tho
so,  and  would  rather  he  sho
although  it  may  not  in  thi
profit.
*•  If  I  understand  rightly,
land's  1500/;  as  the  agree
two  thousand  gitincas,  the
six  hundred  powm/s,  and  not
hundred  being  the  extra  to  i
hundred  and  thirty  pounds
for  Manfred  and  Tasso,  ma
hundred  and  thirty,  I  belie vi
calculator.  I  do  not  wish  t<
you  fairly  that  it  will  be  a  co
It  paid  as  soon  as  it  can  t
yourself.
