By to-morrow’s coach, at your desire, I send you one-half of the volume, which, however, is not in the finished state I could have wished. I have materials for any length, but it is desirable to get out without a moment’s loss of time. It has been suggested to publish a volume periodically, and let this come out as No. I; so as to establish a journal of general foreign politics, for which there are ample means of first-rate information. I have not been able even to revise what is sent, but it will sufficiently indicate the work.
I am to meet a personage on Thursday evening in town, and
read over the whole to him. It is therefore absolutely necessary that the MS.
should be returned to you on Thursday morning, and I will call in Albemarle
Street the
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The remaining portion of the volume consists of several more dramatic scenes in Paris, a view of the character and career of L. P.* a most curious chapter on the conduct of the Diplomatists, and a general view of the state of Europe at the moment of publication. Pray be cautious, and above all let me depend upon your having the MS. on Thursday, otherwise, as Liston says in ‘Love, Law and Physic,’ “we shall get all shot.”
