"The Life," he said, "by which those letters were preceded, is a beautiful piece of biography, and shows, besides higher qualities, much of that taste which a commentator on the 'Reminiscences' ought to have." The work was accordingly placed in the hands of Miss Berry, who edited it satisfactorily, and it was published by Mr.Murray in the course of the following year.
Dr.Tomline, while Bishop of Winchester, entered into a correspondence with Mr.Murray respecting the "Life of William Pitt." In December 1820, Dr.Tomline said he had brought the Memoirs down to the Declaration of War by France against Great Britain on February I, 1793, and that the whole would make two volumes quarto.

Until he became Bishop of Lincoln, Dr.Tomline had been Pitt's secretary, and from the opportunities he had possessed, there was promise here of a great work; but it was not well executed, and though a continuation was promised, it never appeared.

When the work was sent to Mr.Gifford, he wrote to Mr.
Murray that it was not at all what he expected, for it contained nothing of Pitt's private history.

"He seems to be uneasy until he gets back to his Parliamentary papers.

Yet it can hardly fail to be pretty widely interesting; but I would not have you make yourself too uneasy about these things.