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P.S .-- I may mention that the King is now engaged in turning into verse a long prose history called Hydree.

About ten days ago all the poets in Lucknow were assembled at the palace to hear his Majesty read his poem.

They sat with him, listening to his poem and reading their own from nine at night till three in the morning.

One of the poets, the eldest son of a late minister, Mohamid-od Dowla, Aga Meer, told me that the versification was exceedingly good for a King.