How it grieves one that there is so little probability of those valuable authors being read except by the curious! I questioned my friend Charles Lamb whether it would answer for some person of real taste to undertake abridging the plays that are not likely to be read as wholes, and telling such parts of the story in brief abstract as were ill managed in the drama.

He thought it would not.

I, however, am inclined to think it would.
[109] In the field to the S.W.below the garden at Rydal.
[110] _Memoirs_, ii.

224.
[111] _Specimens of British Poetesses.

A.D._ The account of your indisposition gives me much concern.