"September 20. 1821.
"After the stanza on Grattan, concluding with 'His soul o'er the
freedom implored and denied,' will it please you to cause insert
the following 'Addenda,' which I dreamed of during to-day's Siesta:
"Ever glorious Grattan! &c. &c. &c.
I will tell you what to do. Get me twenty copies of the whole
carefully and privately printed off, as _your_ lines were on the
Naples affair. Send me _six_, and distribute the rest according to
your own pleasure.
"I am in a fine vein, 'so full of pastime and prodigality!'--So
here's to your health in a glass of grog. Pray write, that I may
know by return of post--address to me at Pisa. The gods give you
joy!
"Where are you? in Paris? Let us hear. You will take care that
there be no printer's name, nor author's, as in the Naples stanza,
at least for the present."
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