Now, if I may trust to my own experience in these matters, I am by no means certain that the sale would do more than repay the expenses of paper and print.

But the poem is peculiar, and may be more successful than I imagine, in which event the proposition which I have made to the author will secure to him all the advantages of such a result, I trust that you will see in this an anxious desire to serve Mr.Hunt, although as a mere matter of business I cannot avail myself of his offer.

I would have preferred calling upon you today were I not confined by a temporary indisposition; but I think you will not be displeased at a determination founded upon the best judgment I can form of my own business.

I am really uneasy at your feelings in this affair, but I think I may venture to assume that you know me sufficiently well to allow me to trust my decision entirely to your usual kindness." _John Murray to Mr.Leigh Hunt_.
_December_ 27, 1815.
"I have now read the MS.

poem, which you confided to me, with particular attention, and find that it differs so much from any that I have published that I am fearful of venturing upon the extensive speculation to which your estimate would carry it.