P. S.—My wardrobe is out of town—or I could have dressed you as an Albanian—or a Turk—or an officer—or a Waggoner.

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[300—to John Murray]

June 12, 1813.

Dear Sir,—Having occasion to send a servant to London, I will thank you to inform me whether I left with the other things 3 miniatures in your care (—if not—I know where to find them), and also to "report progress" in unpacking the books? The bearer returns this evening.

How does Hobhouse's work go on, or rather off—for that is the essential part? In

[yesterday's]

paper, immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Urethra," I see—most appropriately consequent—a poem with "