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where you choose, either after or before the order I gave you in my last note. The 

 ' Bohemian Gardener' is not finished, I understand, so it can go in afterwards. Do 

 not set into form the Sceptical Estimate of the Fine Arts. Mr. Lockhart leaves 

 town to-morrow, and I believe he intends to alter a little the poem on Lord Byron, 

 Brown on Beauty may be put into forms ; a few corrections will be made on it. 

 Make a new paragraph near the beginning, ' When we speak of the emotion,' &c. 



" Tours truly, 



" J. Wilson." 



Wilson to Mb. Boyd. 



" Ellerat, Kendal, 

 Thursday, 6th October, 1825. 



" Dear Sir : — Along with this you will receive three papers, two of them com- 

 plete, and one not so. The incomplete one is ' Poetry and Prose,' of which I will 

 send the conclusion in a few days along with a quantity of matter. 



" Whatever arrangement Mr. Lockhart may have made about the upmaking of 

 the articles, you will follow it. If he has made no arrangement final and decisive, 

 then I think his own ' Hints' would open the volume as well or better than any 

 thing else, being excellent in itself, and on a subject of great interest; then might 

 follow the other articles sent by him indifferently, or in any order. After these 

 may come my two papers entitled ' Rise and Decline of Nations,' and on the ' Prime 

 Objects of Government,' which set up into forms, and send to me without delay 

 per mail, letting me know, by letter, the day they leave Edinburgh. 



" They shall be returned instantly, corrected for press. Send also the incom- 

 plete Essay on Poetry and Prose along with them. I shall leave Elleray on the 

 27th, and be in Edinburgh on the 29th; but you had better send me the articles 

 without delay, as you will be receiving copy from me before 1 come down, and 

 instantly after. I shall send four short tales in the manner of ' Lights and Shadows,' 

 which you will make up as they arrive, either after my other articles or on any 

 other plan, for the order signifies nothing. Owing to the length of several of the 

 articles, the volume should be 530 pages, that shorter and lighter articles may have 

 room. The volume will conclude with a poem of mine in four parts, of a romantic 

 character, of which I will send you the first part along with my next packet. 



" I have written to Mr. Lockhart by this day's post, informing him of the con- 

 tents of this letter. 



" Yours very truly, 



"John Wilson." 



The Same to the Same. 



"Elleray, 16th October, 1825. 

 " Dear Sir : — Yesterday I sent per coach three articles for Janus, and I have 

 got so many more finished, or in hand, that I wish to see Mr. Lockhart before I 

 send them to you. 



" I am not without hopes of seeing him here in a few days ; but, at all events, 

 shall know what articles he has done in addition to those he sent you. From 

 the list of articles he sent me a few days ago, which he is doing, or to do, and 

 from those I have in hand, the volume cannot easily be less than 550 pages, 



