"High Street, Cheltenham, Sept. 5. 1812.
"Pray have the goodness to send those despatches, and a No. of the
Edinburgh Review with the rest. I hope you have written to Mr.
Thompson, thanked him in my name for his present, and told him that
I shall be truly happy to comply with his request.--How do you go
on? and when is the graven image, 'with _bays and wicked rhyme
upon 't,'_ to grace, or disgrace, some of our tardy editions?
"Send me '_Rokeby_.' Who the devil is he?--no matter, he has good
connections, and will be well introduced. I thank you for your
enquiries: I am so so, but my thermometer is sadly below the
poetical point. What will you give _me_ or _mine_ for a poem of six
cantos, (_when complete_--_no_ rhyme, _no_ recompense,) as like
the last two as I can make them? I have some ideas that one day may
be embodied, and till winter I shall have much leisure.
"P.S.--My last question is in the true style of Grub Street; but,
like Jeremy Diddler, I only 'ask for information.'--Send me Adair
on Diet and Regimen, just republished by Ridgway."
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