Carlton House: November 16, 1815.

DEAR MADAM,--It is certainly not _incumbent_ on
you to dedicate your work now in the press to His
Royal Highness; but if you wish to do the Regent
that honour either now or at any future period, I
am happy to send you that permission, which need
not require any more trouble or solicitation on
your part.

Your late works, Madam, and in particular
_Mansfield Park_, reflect the highest honour on
your genius and your principles. In every new work
your mind seems to increase its energy and power
of discrimination. The Regent has read and admired
all your publications.

Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your
volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I
felt a great inclination to write and say so. And
I also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask
you to delineate in some future work the habits of
life, and character, and enthusiasm of a
clergyman, who should pass his time between the
metropolis and the country, who should be
something like Beattie's Minstrel:--

Silent when glad, affectionate tho' shy,
And now his look was most demurely sad;
And now he laughed aloud, yet none knew why.

Neither Goldsmith, nor La Fontaine in his _Tableau
de Famille_, have in my mind quite delineated an
English clergyman, at least of the present day,
fond of and entirely engaged in literature, no
man's enemy but his own. Pray, dear Madam, think
of these things.

Believe me at all times with sincerity and respect,
Your faithful and obliged servant,
J. S. CLARKE, _Librarian_.

P.S.--I am going for about three weeks to Mr.
Henry Streatfeild, Chiddingstone, Sevenoaks, but
hope on my return to town to have the honour of
seeing you again.

On November 17 Henry was sufficiently recovered to address a letter to
Mr. John Murray on his sister's behalf. This was followed by a letter
from herself on November 23.

Hans Place: Thursday [November 23, 1815].

SIR,--My brother's note last Monday has been so
fruitless, tha