ago, and copied from my skull-cap, are among the last with which
you will be troubled. If you like, add them to Childe Harold, if
only for the sake of another outcry. You received so long an answer
yesterday, that I will not intrude on you further than to repeat
myself,

"Yours, &c.

"P.S. Of course, in reprinting (if you have occasion), you will
take great care to be correct. The present editions seem very much
so, except in the last note of Childe Harold, where the word
_responsible_ occurs twice nearly together; correct the second into
_answerable_."

[Footnote 13: Reprinting the "Hours of Idleness."]

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TO MR. MURRAY.

"Newark, February 6. 1814.

"I am thus far on my way to town. Master Ridge[14] I have seen, and
he owns to having _reprinted_ some _sheets_, to make up a few
complete remaining copies! I have now given him fair warning, and
if he plays such tricks again, I must either get an injunction, or
call for an account of profits (as I never have parted with the
copyright), or, in short, any thing vexatious, to repay him in his
own way. If the weather does not relapse, I hope to be in town in a
day or two. Yours," &c.

[Footnote 14: The printer at Newark.]

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TO MR. MURRAY.

"February 7. 1814.

"I see all the papers in a sad commotion with those eight lines;
and the Morning Post, in particular, has found out that I am a sort
of Richard III.--deformed in mind and _body_. The _last_ piece of
information is not very new to a man who passed five years at a
public school.

"I am very sorry you cut out those lines for Childe Harold. Pray
re-insert them in their old place in 'The Corsair.'"

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LETTER 161. TO MR. HODGSON.

"February 28. 1814.

"There is a youngster, and a clever one, named Reynolds, who has
just published a poem called 'Safie,' published by Cawthorne. He is
in the most natural and fearful apprehension of the Reviewers; and
as you and I both know by experience the effect of such things upon
a _young_ mind, I wish you would take his production into
dissection, and do it _gently_. _I_ cannot, because it is inscribed
to me; but I assure you this is not my motive for wishing him to be