"Venice, January 19. 1818.
"I send you the Story[12] in three other separate covers. It won't
do for your Journal, being full of political allusions. _Print
alone, without name_; alter nothing; get a scholar to see that the
_Italian phrases_ are correctly published, (your printing, by the
way, always makes me ill with its eternal blunders, which are
incessant,) and God speed you. Hobhouse left Venice a fortnight
ago, saving two days. I have heard nothing of or from him.
"Yours, &c.
"He has the whole of the MSS.; so put up prayers in your back shop,
or in the printer's 'Chapel.'"
[Footnote 12: Beppo.]
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