APPENDIX. 467 



Wilson to the Same. 



"Elleray, Saturday, October 22, 1825. 



"Dear Sir: — Many thanks for your kind letter, and enclosure of £150 on ac- 

 count of Janus. 



" In sheet 6, I agree with the compositor that the white lines should be taken 

 out. Fill up the space with the ' Player and Poodle,' and ' The Return.' After 

 the article on the Rise and Fall of Nations, ' German Sonnets,' and a pretty poem 

 in print, now sent; then on the ' Prime Objects of Government ;' then Milton and 

 Dante, Buonaparte, and Antipatliies, and any other short articles. These last three 

 I have not yet received, but put them into forms, for very few corrections will be 

 made on them. Then prose and poetry, which I now return corrected, and without 

 any addition, as the intended conclusion forms another article, which I now send 

 incomplete, entitled 'Sceptical Estimate of the Fine Arts,' which put into slips. 

 ' Brown on Beauty,' now sent, you will put up into forms after the other mentioned. 

 That will bring the forms to about 240 pages, I suspect. I will send more MS. 

 without much delay. The order I have sent of the short articles is of no con- 

 sequence, if you have set up in forms in any other order ; but keep it if you have 

 not. The next 60 pages will be pathetic and picturesque tales. After that, 50 

 pages of lively articles, all written by me. Mr. Lockhart will then contribute a 

 hundred pages of excellent articles, and the remainder also I expect will be good. 

 The volume should not be less than 550 pages, which I hope you can afford at 

 twelve shillings. I delayed writing for two posts, in hopes of getting the three 

 articles, but they have not come to hand. I will be in Edinburgh on the 29th, in 

 my house in Gloucester place, so send nothing here after receipt of this. 



" I am, dear sir, yours truly, 



" John "Wilson." 



"Wilson to Mr. Botd. 



" Gloucester Place, Id November, 1825. 



"Dear Sir: — I got home this evening, after a melancholy delay of some days 

 at Hawick, owing to the sudden and alarming illness of Mrs. Wilson. Thank God, 

 she is wonderfully recovered, and restored to a state free from all danger. 



" I shall correct all revises to-morrow, and send them to you before dinner. 



" I send you some more MS., namely, ' Pins,' ' Antiquity,' ' Love Poetry,' ' Preface 

 to any New Work of Imagination.' These may go into forms forthwith after 

 ' Beauty.' ' Medals,' and the two poems in the same hand, from some quarter un- 

 known to me, you had better put up after the articles before mentioned, and in 

 forms at once. They are good articles, and such a correspondent deserves en- 

 couragement. The other articles are not good, but I know the quarter from which 

 one of them comes, and will write to the author, who is a man of genius. By the 

 time the MS. now sent is in types, I shall send you more ; and I have roason to think 

 what will add greatly to the value of Janus. Remember not to scrimp it, and I 

 presume it will be in time if shipped by the end of the month. I shall see Mr. 

 Lockhart to-morrow at one o'clock. 



" Wednesday Morning. — I wrote this last night. 



" Yours truly, J. "Wilson." 



