! I am promised an interview with him, and think I shall ask
you
for a letter of introduction, as "the gods have made him poetical." From whom could it come with a better grace than from
his
publisher and mine? Is it not somewhat treasonable in you to have to do with a relative of the "direful foe," as the
Morning Post
calls his brother?
But my book on
Diet and Regimen
, where is it? I thirst for Scott's