I have it engraved on a seal, as you may remark on the enclosure, but it is done in a most blackguard style.

Now what I want is to have this same gateway and this same portcullis and this same motto of _clausus tutus ero_, which is an anagram of _Walterus Scotus_ (taking two single _U_'s for the _W_), cut upon wood in the most elegant manner, so as to make a small vignette capable of being applied to a few copies of every work which I either write or publish.

This fancy of making _portcullis_ copies I have much at heart, and trust to you to get it accomplished for me in the most elegant manner.

I don't mind the expense, and perhaps Mr.
Westall might be disposed to make a sketch for me.
I am most anxious to see the _Review_.

God grant we may lose no ground; I tremble when I think of my own articles, of two of which I have but an indefinite recollection.
What would you think of an edition of the "Old English Froissart," say 500 in the small _antique quarto_, a beautiful size of book; the spelling must be brought to an uniformity, the work copied (as I could not promise my beautiful copy to go to press), notes added and illustrations, etc., and inaccuracies corrected.