I have collected from every Missionary Society in London, of which there are no less than five, all their curious reports, proceedings and history, which, I know, Sydney Smith never saw; and which I could only procure by personal application.
Southey will give a complete view of the subject, and if he will enter heartily into it, and do it well, it will be as much as he can do for the first number.

These transactions contain, amidst a great deal of fanaticism, the most curious information you can imagine upon the history, literature, topography and manners of nations and countries of which we are otherwise totally ignorant....

If you have occasion to write to Southey, pray urge the vast importance of this subject, and entreat him to give it all his ability.

I find that a new volume of Burns' ('The Reliques') will be published by the end of this month, which will form the subject of another capital article under your hands.
I presume 'Sir John Carr (Tour in Scotland)' will be another article, which even you, I fancy, will like; 'Mrs.Grant of Laggan,' too, and perhaps your friend Mr.Cumberland's 'John de Lancaster' ....

Are you not sufficiently well acquainted with Miss (Joanna) Baillie, both to confide in her, and command her talents?
If so, you will probably think of what may suit her, and what may apply to her.