I will write in a few days again to you. To-morrow is my lecture night, "On the _human_ causes of the spread of Christianity, and its effects after the establishment of Christendom." Dear Mary! dear Dorothy! dearest Sara! Oh, be assured, no thought relative to myself has half the influence in inspiring the wish and effort to _appear_ and to _act_ what I always in my will and heart have been, as the knowledge that few things could more console you than to see me healthy, and worthy of myself! Again and again, my dearest Wordsworth!!! I am affectionately and truly yours,
Wednesday afternoon [January 20,] 18[13].
MY DEAR SARA,--_Hitherto_ the "Remorse" has met with _unexampled applause_, but whether it will _continue_ to fill the _house_, that is quite another question, and of this, my friends are, in my opinion, far, far too sanguine. I have disposed not of the copyright but of edition by edition to Mr. Pople, on terms advantageous to me as an author and honourable to him as a publisher. The expenses of printing and paper (at the trade-price) advertising, etc., are to be deducted from the total produce, and the net profits to be divided into three equal parts, of which Pople is to have one, and I the other two. And at any future time, I may publish it in any volume of my poems _collectively_. Mr. Arnold (the manager) has just left me. He called to urge me to exert myself a little with regard to the daily press, and brought with him "The Times"[97] of Monday as a specimen of the _infernal lies_ of which a newspaper scribe can be capable. Not only is not _one_ sentence in it true; but every one is in the direct face of a palpable truth. The misrepresentations must have been wilful. I must now, therefore, write to "The Times," and if Walter refuses to insert, I will then, recording the circumstance, publish it in the "Morning Post," "Morning Chronicle," and "The Courier." The dirty malice of Antony Pasquin[98] in the "Morning Herald" is below notice. This, however, will explain to you why the shortness of this letter, the main business of which is to desire you to draw upon Brent and Co., No. 103 Bishopsgate Street Within, for an hundred pounds, at a month's date from the drawing, or, if that be objected to, for three weeks, only let me know which. In the course of a month I have no hesitation in promising you another hundred, and I hope likewise before Midsummer, if God grant me life, to repay you whatever you have expended for the children.