Papa may laugh, and indeed he did laugh me out of my taste at Clapham; but I think that there is a great deal of beauty in the first melody, "She walks in beauty," though indeed who it is that walks in beauty is not very exactly defined.

My next letter shall contain a production of my muse, entitled "An Inscription for the Column of Waterloo," which is to be shown to Mr.Preston to-morrow.

What he may think of it I do not know.

But I am like my favourite Cicero about my own productions.

It is all one to me what others think of them.