372—to John Murray
Dear Sir,—It is all very well, except that the lines are not numbered properly, and a diabolical mistake, page 67., which
must
be corrected with the
pen
, if no other way remains; it is the omission of "
not
" before "
disagreeable
" in the
note
on the
amber
rosary. This is really horrible, and nearly as bad as the stumble of mine at the Threshold—I mean the
misnomer
of bride. Pray do not let a copy go without the "
not
;" it is nonsense, and worse than nonsense, as it now stands. I wish the printer was saddled with a vampire.
Yours ever, B.
P. S.—It is still
hath
instead of
have
in page 20; never was any one so
misused
as I am by your Devils of printers.
P. S.—I hope and trust the "
not
" was inserted in the first Edition. We must have something—any thing—to set it right. It is enough to answer for one's own bulls, without other people's.
