I will not omit writing two days running, because, if my letters give you half the pleasure which your letters give me, you will, I am sure, miss them.

I have not, however, much to tell.

I have been very busy with my article on Moore's Life of Byron.

I never wrote anything with less heart.

I do not like the book; I do not like the hero; I have said the most I could for him, and yet I shall be abused for speaking as coldly of him as I have done.
I dined the day before yesterday at Sir George Philips's with Sotheby, Morier the author of "Hadji Baba," and Sir James Mackintosh.