"Monday evening, Dec. 6. 1813.
"It is all very well, except that the lines are not numbered
properly, and a diabolical mistake, page 67., which _must_ be
corrected with the _pen_, if no other way remains; it is the
omission of '_not_' before '_disagreeable_,' in the _note_ on the
_amber_ rosary. This is really horrible, and nearly as bad as the
stumble of mine at the threshold--I mean the _misnomer_ of Bride.
Pray do not let a copy go without the '_not_;' it is nonsense, and
worse than nonsense as it now stands. I wish the printer was
saddled with a vampire.
"P.S. It is still _hath_ instead of _have_ in page 20.; never was
any one so _misused_ as I am by your devils of printers.
"P.S. I hope and trust the '_not_' was inserted in the first
edition. We must have something--any thing--to set it right. It is
enough to answer for one's own bulls, without other people's."
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