to our
evening squeezes
at public and private parties. I heard from Ridge this morning (the 14th, my letter was begun yesterday): he says the poems go on as well as can be wished; the seventy-five sent to town are circulated, and a demand for fifty more complied with, the day he dated his epistle, though the advertisements are not yet half published. Adieu.
. — Lord Carlisle, on receiving my poems, sent, before he opened the book, a tolerably handsome letter
:— I have not heard from him since. His opinions I neither know nor care about: if he is the least insolent, I shall enrol him with
Butler
and the other worthies. He is in Yorkshire, poor man! and very ill! He said he had not had time to read the contents, but thought it necessary to acknowledge the receipt of the volume immediately. Perhaps the Earl "
bears no brother near the throne" — if so