Her style seems stiff and formal, and though these two letters, which describe a peculiar kind of scene, have a good deal of interest in them, I do not hope for the same amusement from the rest of the collection.

Poverty, obscurity, general ill-health, and blindness are but unpromising qualifications for making an agreeable volume of letters.

If a shopkeeper at Portsmouth were to write his life, the extracts of what relates to the two days of the Imperial and Royal visit of 1814 would be amusing, though all the rest of the half century of his life would be intolerably tedious.

I therefore counsel you not to buy the pig in Miss Hamilton's bag (though she is a most respectable lady), but ask to see the whole collection before you bid." The whole collection was obtained, and, with some corrections and elucidations, the volume of letters was given to the world by Mr.Murray in 1821.
In May 1820 Mr.Murray requested Mr.Croker to edit Horace Walpole's "Reminiscences." Mr.Croker replied, saying: "I should certainly like the task very well if I felt a little better satisfied of my ability to perform it.

Something towards such a work I would certainly contribute, for I have always loved that kind of tea-table history." Not being able to undertake the work himself, Mr.Croker recommended Mr.Murray to apply to Miss Berry, the editor of Lady Russell's letters.