TO MR. MURRAY.

"Dec. 3. 1813.

"I send you a _scratch_ or _two_, the which _heal_. The Christian
Observer is very savage, but certainly well written--and quite
uncomfortable at the naughtiness of book and author. I rather
suspect you won't much like the _present_ to be more moral, if it
is to share also the usual fate of your virtuous volumes.

"Let me see a proof of the six before incorporation."

* * * * *

TO MR. MURRAY.

"Monday evening, Dec. 6. 1813.

"It is all very well, except that the lines are not numbered
properly, and a diabolical mistake, page 67., which _must_ be
corrected with the _pen_, if no other way remains; it is the
omission of '_not_' before '_disagreeable_,' in the _note_ on the
_amber_ rosary. This is really horrible, and nearly as bad as the
stumble of mine at the threshold--I mean the _misnomer_ of Bride.
Pray do not let a copy go without the '_not_;' it is nonsense, and
worse than nonsense as it now stands. I wish the printer was
saddled with a vampire.

"P.S. It is still _hath_ instead of _have_ in page 20.; never was