“My dear Sir,—If you have yet got any certain intelligence about poor Charles Scott, may I claim of you to let me share in it. If not yet, then as soon as any does arrive. I have the liveliest impression of that good honest Scotch face and character, though never in contact with the young man but that once. Alas, so many histories are tragedies; or rather, all histories are! I pray you, let me know.
“That is a capital article on the Copyright question: a
conviction in it as deep and vivid as my own, or that of any other idealist; but embodied, with excellent dexterity, in the
given element of practicalities, possibilities, and existing facts—which
do and will exist, let us bless them or curse them! It cannot but do great
service. I fancy I know the hand very well: a most velvet touch; truly a
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