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more advantageous, than even the highest rank in the 

 army could promise, and her thoughts are now occupied 

 upon subjects very remote from the passing events of the 

 day." Mrs. Browne was of opinion that Cadell and Davies 

 were keeping back the sale of " England and Spain," 

 as " it does not appear that they have disposed of a 

 single copy," and she urges Mr. Nicholson to help 

 her in disposing of the copyright of some of Felicia's 

 poems, and she also desires him to buy her the i6th 

 of a lottery ticket. Felicia, she says, "will tell you 

 herself .... how much she is gratified by your 

 good opinion of her, and how highly you honor her 

 effusions by thinking them worth taking the trouble 

 of transcribing. The more candid you are in your 

 remarks, the more valuable to her will be your corres- 

 pondence, and I only wish we were so situated, that 

 your young friends would be able to avail themselves of 

 your preceptive and practical lessons in morality and all 

 goodness, to a greater extent than can now be the case." 

 Felicia's promised letter is missing, but there is one from 

 Mrs. Browne, congratulating herself that George Browne 

 had, after all, decided to remain in the army. " I have 

 such a dread of mercantile undertakings, from having 

 experienced the horrors of a failure in them, that I own 

 1 should feel less anxiety from his continuing in the 

 army, than from his entering into large engagements. 

 These are my sentiments from conviction, though I own 

 I was, at first, a little dazzled by the offers made him." 

 On 15th January, 18 10, Mrs. Browne thanks Mr. Nichol- 

 son for sending her a copy of a criticism of one of 

 Felicia's works, and in March she was again asking his 

 services in connection with the sale of copyrights. There 

 followed an " obstinate silence " on Mr. Nicholson's part, 

 probably he was ill, which Mrs Browne tried to break 



