"The deepest murmur of this lip shall be No sigh for safety, but a prayer for thee! Don't send the copies to the _country_ till this is all right." * * * * * TO MR. MURRAY. "Dec. 2. 1813. "When you can, let the couplet enclosed be inserted either in the page, or in the errata page. I trust it is in time for some of the copies. This alteration is in the same part--the page _but one_ before the last correction sent. "P.S. I am afraid, from all I hear, that people are rather inordinate in their expectations, which is very unlucky, but cannot now be helped. This comes of Mr. Perry and one's wise friends; but do not _you_ wind _your_ hopes of success to the same pitch, for fear of accidents, and I can assure you that my philosophy will stand the test very fairly; and I have done every thing to ensure you, at all events, from positive loss, which will be some satisfaction to both." * * * * * TO MR. MURRAY. "Dec. 3. 1813. "I send you a _scratch_ or _two_, the which _heal_. The Christian Observer is very savage, but certainly well written--and quite uncomfortable at the naughtiness of book and author. I rather suspect you won't much like the _present_ to be more moral, if it is to share also the usual fate of your virtuous volumes. "Let me see a proof of the six before incorporation." * * * * * TO MR. MURRAY. "Monday evening, Dec. 6. 1813. "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. "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." * * * * * LETTER 151. TO MR. MURRAY. "December 27. 1813.