"April 11. 1814.
"I enclose you a letter_et_ from Mrs. Leigh.
"It will be best _not_ to put my name to our _Ode_; but you may
_say_ as openly as you like that it is mine, and I can inscribe it
to Mr. Hobhouse, from the _author_, which will mark it
sufficiently. After the resolution of not publishing, though it is
a thing of little length and less consequence, it will be better
altogether that it is anonymous; but we will incorporate it in the
first _tome_ of ours that you find time or the wish to publish.
Yours alway, B.
"P.S. I hope you got a note of alterations, sent this matin?
"P.S. Oh my books! my books! will you never find my books?
"Alter '_potent_ spell' to '_quickening_ spell:' the first (as
Polonius says) 'is a vile phrase,' and means nothing, besides being
common-place and _Rosa-Matilda-ish_."
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