"I arrived here yesterday," he says, "and I am now ready to obey your commands.

I hope you are come to a positive resolution concerning the History.

You need not hesitate about the dates, or the references which are to be made to any public papers; for I can supply them without the least trouble.

As well as I remember, there is but one of those public pieces which you determined should be inserted at length; I mean Sir Thomas Hanmer's Representation; this I have now by me.

If you incline to publish the two tracts as an Appendix to the History, you will be pleased to see if the character given of the Earl of Oxford in the pamphlet of 1715 agrees with the character given of the same person in the History.[1] Perhaps on a review you may think proper to leave one of them quite out.