While his little brat was diverting the wide audience of the _Gentleman’s Magazine_, Malone was busy arranging for it to make a more damaging sally. Tyrwhitt may have asked for a more convenient text; what Malone gave him was a better essay. He seems to have spent the entire month revising his work, for the pamphlet was not ready until early in February. As late as 7 February, writers commenting on the essay referred to and even quoted from the _Gentleman’s Magazine_.[16] On 4 February, Horace Walpole, writing to thank Malone for sending him a copy of _Cursory Observations_, said that he had been “earnestly wishing” for such a present because Malone’s remarks were “far too good to be committed only to the few hours of life of a newspaper.”[17] The pamphlet was first advertised in the _St. James’s Chronicle_, in which developments in the Rowley controversy were usually announced promptly, until No. 3266 (9-12 Feb.). This and all other advertisements of the pamphlet were for the version of Malone’s essay which the author sent to Walpole some days earlier: “the second edition, revised and augmented.”[18] This phrase on the title-page has led scholars to miss the significance which Malone himself found in the pamphlet. The phrase does not indicate, as bibliographies have heretofore stated, that the pamphlet achieved a second printing. It emphasizes that in the pamphlet Malone revised and expanded considerably the essay which made its first appearance in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_. Every page in the pamphlet bears evidence of Malone’s revision.[19] It was necessary, of course, to re-orient the essay, which after the formula of the _Gentleman’s Magazine_ was addressed to Mr. Urban. At least one passage, which carried a slur upon publishers, may have been changed to suit Mr. Nichols.[20] But more indicative of his carefulness are his revisions of words and phrases. “The whole fabrick” of Chatterton’s poems became “the beautiful fabrick” (p. 12). The “practice of knitting,” which Malone wished to show had not developed as early as the fifteenth century, he now called “the art of knitting” (p. 24). When he found that he had not questioned emphatically enough “the antiquity of these MSS,” he added the phrase “not of one, but of all” (p. 31). Malone attended to the more general stylistic aspects of his essay as well as to minute details. If he paused to recompute the number of parchments which could fit into the famous Bristol chests (p. 59), he also changed the simple declarative “I shall” to the more forceful “I will” throughout the essay. Although his verbal revisions cannot be called drastic, they are numerous and are frequently strategic.