Whether Goethe ever will finish it, or whether it is ever his object to do so, is quite unknown.

A large proportion of the work cannot be rendered in blank verse, but must be given in wild _lyrical_ metres; and Mr.Lamb informs me that the Baroness de Stael has given a very unfavourable account of the work.

Still, however, I will undertake it, and that instantly, so as to let you have the last sheet by the middle of November, on the following terms: 1.

That on the delivery of the last MS.

sheet you remit 100 guineas to Mrs.Coleridge, or Mr.Robert Southey, at a bill of five weeks.2.