198 HEISTRY KIRKE WHITE S REJIAINS. 



Sublime? Knox's Winter Evening? — Can lend them 

 to you, if you have not. 



Really, Neville, were you fully sensible how much my 

 time is occupied, principally about my profession, as a 

 primary concern, and in the hours necessarily set apart 

 to relaxation, on polite literature, to which as a hobby- 

 horse I am very desirous of paying some attention, you 

 would not be angry at my delay in writing, or my short 

 letters. It is always with joy that I devote a leisure 

 hour to you, as it aifords you gratification ; and rest as- 

 sured, that I always participate in your pleasure, and 

 poignantly feel every adverse incident which causes you 

 pain. 



Permit me, however, again to observe, that one of ray 

 sheets is equal to two of yours; and I cannot but con- 

 sider this as a kind of fallacious deception, for you 

 always think that your letters contain so much more 

 than mine, because they occupy more room. If you were 

 to count the words, the diiFerence would not be so great, 

 You must also take into account the unsealed communica- 

 tions to periodical works, which I now reckon a part of my 

 letter, and therefore you must excuse my concluding, on 

 the first sheet, by assuring you that I still remain 

 Your Friend and Brother, 



H. K. White. 



P.S. A postscript is a natural appendage to a letter.— 

 I only have to say, that j^ositively you shall receive a six 

 or eight sheet letter, and that written legibly, ere long. 



TO MR BOOTH. 



Nottingliam, August 12th, 1801. 

 Dear Sir, 



I must beg leave to apologize for not having re- 

 turned my sincere acknowledgments to yourself and Mrs 

 Booth, for your yery acceptable presents, at an earlier 

 period. I now, however, acquit myself of the duty, and 



