I rather think that it will be a good one.
Ever yours T.B.M.
London: February 13, 1834.
Dear Napier,--It is true that I have been severely tried by ill-health during the last few weeks; but I am now rapidly recovering, and am assured by all my medical advisers that a week of the sea will make me better than ever I was in my life.
I have several subjects in my head.

One is Mackintosh's History; I mean the fragment of the large work.

Another plan which I have is a very fine one, if it could be well executed.

I think that the time is come when a fair estimate may be formed of the intellectual and moral character of Voltaire.

The extreme veneration, with which he was regarded during his lifetime, has passed away; the violent reaction, which followed, has spent itself; and the world can now, I think, bear to hear the truth, and to see the man exhibited as he was,--a strange mixture of greatness and littleness, virtues and vices.