M. N. TO MR. HUNT, SEPTEMBER 3.

"For you to set up and pretend to ask me if I like 'City Curate' style,

when you knew I went down on my knees to you to have it like 'Sir

Thomas Browne,' and you said you would.

"The next book you publish for me, I am going to stand over you with

a grip on your coat-collar from the time you give the first copy to

the printer till the first edition stands on the shelf, and see if

you cannot be kept to something. I don't know what your beveled

boards are--only if you put a _d_ in, the adjective would apply more

accurately--and I don't want my book to be boarded up any way, and if

there is anything I hate, it is gilt tops, and if you don't do it as I

want it, I don't care how it is done."

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