I send you a sketch of Jami's Life, which cut, correct, and annotate as
you like. Where there was so little to tell I have brought in all the
fine Names and extra bits I could to give it a little sparkle. There is
very little after all; I have spread it over Paper to give you room to
note _upon_ it. Only take care not to lose either these, or Yesterday's,
Papers--for my Terror at going over the Ground!
You must put in the corrected Notice about the Sultan Hussein, both in
the Memoir and in the Note to the Poem. The latter will have room for at
least four (I think five) lines of note Type: which you must fill, and
not overflow: 'Strong without rage, etc.'
I feel guilty at taking up your Time and Thoughts: and also at Dressing
myself so in your Plumes. But I mean to say a word about this, [Greek
text], in my Preliminary Notice; and would gladly dedicate the little
Book to you by Name, with due acknowledgment, did I think the world would
take it for a Compliment to you. But though I like the Version, and you
like it, we know very well the world--even the very little world, I mean,
who will see it--may not; and might laugh at us both for any such
Compliment. They cannot laugh at your Scholarship; but they might laugh
at the use I put it to: and at my dedicating a _cobweb_ (as Carlyle
called Maud the other night) to you.
31 GT PORTLAND ST., P. PLACE.
_Jan_. 10/56.