I am a very particular person about having all I write printed as I write it.
I require to see a proof, a revise, a re-revise, and a double re-revise, or fourth-proof rectified impression of all my productions, especially verse.

A misprint kills a sensitive author.

An intentional change of his text murders him.

No wonder so many poets die young! I have nothing more to report at this time, except two pieces of advice I gave to the young women at table.

One relates to a vulgarism of language, which I grieve to say is sometimes heard even from female lips.