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done by no friendly hand. There is no malignity, which 

 I feared, and he has quoted so largely and so judiciously 

 from Mackintosh's early writing and late speeches, that it 

 must raise M. in the opinion of everyone who reads; and 

 then when M. speaks so well of himself what signifies the 

 opinion and judgment of the foolish writer ? It can do 

 him no harm. This should be a warning to Robert not to 

 cut out anything but what is absolutely necessary of his 

 father's writing, whether journal or letters. I am rather 

 afraid of Robert's over-delicacy of home subjects ; yet those 

 will shew M. in the brightest light, and they are those after 

 all that make known the true character. . . . 



