"Pisa, July 8. 1822.
"Last week I returned you the packet of proofs. You had, perhaps,
better not publish in the same volume the _Po_ and _Rimini_
translation.
"I have consigned a letter to Mr. John Hunt for the 'Vision of
Judgment,' which you will hand over to him. Also the 'Pulci,'
original and Italian, and any _prose_ tracts of mine; for Mr. Leigh
Hunt is arrived here, and thinks of commencing a periodical work,
to which I shall contribute. I do not propose to you to be the
publisher, because I know that you are unfriends; but all things in
your care, except the volume now in the press, and the manuscript
purchased of Mr. Moore, can be given for this purpose, according as
they are wanted.
"With regard to what you say about your 'want of memory,' I can
only remark, that you inserted the note to Marino Faliero against
my positive revocation, and that you omitted the Dedication of
Sardanapalus to Goethe (place it before the volume now in the
press), both of which were things not very agreeable to me, and
which I could wish to be avoided in future, as they might be with a
very little care, or a simple memorandum in your pocket-book.
"It is not impossible that I may have three or four cantos of Don
Juan ready by autumn, or a little later, as I obtained a permission
from my dictatress to continue it,--_provided always_ it was to be
more guarded and decorous and sentimental in the continuation than
in the commencement. How far these conditions have been fulfilled
may be seen, perhaps, by-and-by; but the embargo was only taken off
upon these stipulations. You can answer at your leisure. Yours,"
&c.
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