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ing his careful and deliberate manner of composing. This 

 Appendix gives further proofs from the MS. of his Works. 



To ANDREW MILLAR. 



" Edinburgh, 22nd September, 1756. 



<( Mr. Strachan in a few days will have finished the 

 printing this volume ; and I hope you will find leisure before 

 the hurry of winter to peruse it, and to write me your remarks 

 on it. I fancy you will publish about the middle of November. 

 I must desire you to take the trouble of distributing a few 

 copies to my friends in London, and of sending me a few 

 copies here ; the whole will be fifteen copies. 



" Notwithstanding Mr. Mallet's impertinence in not answering 

 my letter (for it deserves no better a name),, if you can engage 

 him, from yourself, to mark, on the perusal, such slips of lan- 

 guage as he thinks I have fallen into in this volume, it will 

 be a great obligation to me : I mean that I shall lie under an 

 obligation to you ; for I would not willingly owe any to him. 

 " I am, dear Sir, 



te Your most humble Servant, 



" DAVID HUME." 



To ANDREW MILLAR. 

 DEAR SIR, 1758 or 1759. 



" I am very glad that Mr. Robertson is .entering on 

 terms with you. It was, indeed, my advice to him, when he 

 set out for London, that he should think of no other body ; 

 and I ventured to assure him that he would find your way of 

 dealing frank, and open, and generous. He read me part of 

 his ' History ;' and I had an opportunity of reading another 

 part of it in manuscript about a twelvemonth ago. Upon the 

 whole, my expectations, both from what I saw, and from my 

 knowledge of the author, are very much raised, and I consider 

 it as a work of uncommon merit. I know that he has em- 

 ployed himself with great diligence and care in collecting the 

 facts. His style is lively and entertaining, and he judges 

 with temper and candour. He is a man generally known and 

 esteemed in this country ; and we look upon him very 



