On the one side my mind stands in need of being fed by new objects for meditation and reflection, the more so because diseased eyes have cut me off so much from reading; and, on the other hand, I am obliged to look at the expense of distant travelling, as I am not able to take so much out of my body by walking as heretofore.
I have not got my MS.

back from the -- --,[101] whose managers have, between them, used me shamefully; but my complaint is principally of the editor, for with the proprietor I have had little direct connection.

If you think it worth while, you shall, at some future day, see such parts of the correspondence as I have preserved.

Mr.Southey is pretty much in the same predicament with them, though he has kept silence for the present....

I am properly served for having had any connection with such things.