196 HENRY KIEKE WUITE S REMAINS. 



TO HIS BROTHER NEVILLE. 



Nottingham, April 1801. 

 Dear Xeville, 



As I know you will participate with me in the plea- 

 sure I receive from literary distinctions, I hasten to in- 

 form you, that my poetical Essay on Gratitude is printed 

 in this month's Preceptor — that my Remarks on Warton 

 are promised insertion in the next month's Mirror, and 

 that my Essay on Truth is printed in the present (April) 

 Monthly Visitor. The Preceptor T shall not be able to 

 send you until the end of this month. The Visitor you 

 will herewith receive. The next month's Mirror I shall 

 consequently buy. I wish it were not quite so expensive, 

 as I think it a very good work. Benjamin Thomson, 

 Capel LoiFt, Esq., Robert Bloomfield, Thomas Dermody, 

 Mr Gilchrist, under the signature of Octavius, Mrs 

 Blore, a noted female writer, under the signature of 

 Q.Z , are correspondents ; and the editors are not only 

 men of genius and taste, but of the greatest respectability. 

 As I shall now be a regular contributor to this work, 

 and as I think it contains much good matter, I have half 

 an inclination to take it in, more especially as you have 

 got the prior volumes ; but in the present state of my 

 finances, it will not be prudent, unless you accede to a 

 proposal which, I think, will be gratifying to yourself. 

 It is to take it in conjunction with me, by which means 

 we shall both have the same enjoyment of it, with half 

 the expense. It is of little consequence who takes them, 

 only he must be expeditious in reading them. If you 

 have any the least objection to this scheme, do not sup- 

 press it through any regard to punctilio. I have only 

 proposed it, and it is not very material whether you 

 concur or not ; only exercise your own discretion. 



You say (speaking of a passage concerning you in my 

 last), " this is compliment sufficient; the rest must be 

 flattery." — Do you seriously, Neville, think me capable 

 of flattery ? 



