“I have read your MS. It is exceedingly able—most effective—most capital, in short; and I have no doubt you are right in the main.
“I don’t doubt, however, that good has been and is daily done by the sort of Societies you are attacking, and I could not publish the article without several interpolations.
“But I couldn’t, were it one chrysolite, accept it for this number. I told you truly—I am full. I publish this month, and no article ever has much chance unless it comes to hand at a much earlier stage of my operations.
“I am sorry indeed, but can’t help this. I see you are in a hurry, and no wonder; for really much of it is as good as anything Sydney Smith ever wrote.
