! 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