"The Prometheus, if not exactly in my plan, has always been so much in my head, that I can easily conceive its influence over all or any thing that I have written;—but I deny Marlow and his progeny, and beg that you will do the same.
"If you can send me the paper in question[10], which the Edinburgh Review mentions, do. The review in the magazine you say was written by Wilson? it had all the air of being a poet's, and was a very good one. The Edinburgh Review I take to be Jeffrey's own by its friendliness. I wonder they thought it worth while to do so, so soon after the former; but it was evidently with a good motive.
"I saw Hoppner the other day, whose country-house at Este I have taken for two years. If you come out next summer, let me know in time. Love to Gifford.
"Yours ever truly.
"Crabbe, Malcolm, Hamilton, and Chantrey,
Are all partakers of my pantry.
These two lines are omitted in your letter to the doctor, after—
"All clever men who make their way."
LETTER 300. TO MR. MURRAY.
"Venice, October 23. 1817.