“The note from the Earl of Bristol, which you have been so kind as to send me to-day, does me the greatest honour, and demands my warmest acknowledgments.
“I am happy in the present opportunity, by your means, of conveying to his Lordship my most grateful thanks for the generous intentions he has expressed towards me, and of assuring his Lordship with the deepest sense of his goodness, that as I had no motive in publishing my work but a sincere desire of promoting the cause of letters, and of doing justice to a great and neglected character, so the approbation of such an acknowledged judge in works of taste and literature, as the Earl of Bristol, is the highest compensation which I can possibly receive.”
