"Pisa, April 13. 1822.
"Mr. Kinnaird writes that there has been an 'excellent Defence' of
'Cain,' against 'Oxoniensis;' you have sent me nothing but a not
very excellent _of_-fence of the same poem. If there be such a
'Defender of the Faith,' you may send me his thirty-nine articles,
as a counterbalance to some of your late communications.
"Are you to publish, or not, what Moore and Mr. Kinnaird have in
hand, and the 'Vision of Judgment?' If you publish the latter in a
very cheap edition, so as to baffle the pirates by a low price, you
will find that it will do. The 'Mystery' I look upon as good, and
'Werner' too, and I expect that you will publish them speedily. You
need not put your name to _Quevedo,_ but publish it as a foreign
edition, and let it make its way. Douglas Kinnaird has it still,
with the preface, I believe.
"I refer you to him for documents on the late row here. I sent them
a week ago.
"Yours," &c.
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