"Dec. 3. 1813.
"I send you a _scratch_ or _two_, the which _heal_. The Christian
Observer is very savage, but certainly well written--and quite
uncomfortable at the naughtiness of book and author. I rather
suspect you won't much like the _present_ to be more moral, if it
is to share also the usual fate of your virtuous volumes.
"Let me see a proof of the six before incorporation."
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