The general approbation of a literary work must be highly gratifying to any Author. But the cordial approval of an eminent individual, whose grave, sound judgment, and profound erudition, give authenticity to his opinions, affords a gratification of an higher order. Such was my feeling on your Lordship’s suggestion to me of a _third_ volume of those Sketches, “composed of _similar materials_.” To have amused you gives me pleasure—to have informed you excites my vanity. My gratitude for your kindness (when in office) has met no alloy by retirement from a station where your repute will find no rivals. Your _suggestion_ is in progress.…
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