stimation at half The Giaour; and
according to your own notions of its worth and its success within
the time mentioned, be the addition or deduction to or from
whatever sum may be your proposal for the first, which has already
had its success.

"The pictures of Phillips I consider as _mine_, all three; and the
one (not the Arnaout) of the two best is much at _your service_, if
you will accept it as a present.

"P.S. The expense of engraving from the miniature send me in my
account, as it was destroyed by my desire; and have the goodness to
burn that detestable print from it immediately.

"To make you some amends for eternally pestering you with
alterations, I send you Cobbett to confirm your orthodoxy.

"One more alteration of _a_ into _the_ in the MS.; it must be--'The
_heart whose softness_,' &c.

"Remember--and in the inscription, 'To the Right Honourable Lord
Holland,' _without_ the previous names, Henry," &c.

* * * * *

TO MR. MURRAY.

"November 20. 1813.

"More work for the _Row_. I am doing my best to beat 'The
Giaour'--_no_ difficult task for any one but the author."

* * * * *

TO MR. MURRAY.

"November 22. 1813.

"I have no time to _cross_-investigate, but I believe and hope all
is right. I care less than you will believe about its success, but
I can't survive a single _misprint_: it _chokes_ me to see words
misused by the printers. Pray look over, in case of some eyesore
escaping me.

"P.S. Send the earliest copies to Mr. Frere, Mr. Canning, Mr. Heber,
Mr. Gifford, Lord Holland, Lord Melbourne (Whitehall), Lady
Caroline Lamb, (Brocket), Mr. Hodgson (Cambridge), Mr. Merivale,
Mr. Ward, from the author."

* * * * *

TO MR. MURRAY.

"November 23. 1813.

"You wanted some reflections, and I send you _per Selim_ (see his
speech in Canto 2d, page 46.), eighteen lines in decent couplets,
of a pensive, if not an _ethical_ tendency. One more
revise--positively the last, if decently done--at any rate the
_pen_ultimate. Mr. Canning's approbation (_if_ he did approve) I
need not say makes me proud.[110] As to printing, print as you will
and how you will--by itself, if you like; but let me have a few
copies in _sheets_.