If you had received these two short letters you could not want an invitation to a place where every one considers himself as infinitely honoured and pleased by your presence.

Mrs.Burke desires her best compliments, and trusts that you will not let the holidays pass over without a visit from you I have got the poem; but I have not yet opened it.

I don't like the unhappy language you use about these matters.

You do not easily please such a judgment as your own--that is natural; but where you are difficult every one else will be charmed.

I am, my dear sir, ever most affectionately yours, EDMUND BURKE." The "unhappy language" seems to point to Crabbe having expressed some diffidence or forebodings concerning his new venture.