[Footnote 7: "It was at least a _grammar_ 'school.'"]

[Footnote 8: "So spelt by the author."]

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LETTER 396. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Ravenna, 9bre 4. 1820.

"I have received from Mr. Galignani the enclosed letters,
duplicates and receipts, which will explain themselves.[9] As the
poems are your property by purchase, right, and justice, _all
matters of publication, &c. &c. are for you to decide upon_. I know
not how far my compliance with Mr. Galignani's request might be
legal, and I doubt that it would not be honest. In case you choose
to arrange with him, I enclose the permits to you, and in so doing
I wash my hands of the business altogether. I sign them merely to
enable you to exert the power you justly possess more properly. I
will have nothing to do with it farther, except, in my answer to
Mr. Galignani, to state that the letters, &c. &c. are sent to you,
and the causes thereof.

"If you can check these foreign pirates, do; if not, put the
permissive papers in the fire. I can have no view nor object
whatever, but to secure to you your property.

"Yours, &c.