You would have suffered no disappointment on the present occasion, if your friends had known – I will not say as much of what is called the World as I do (for they may easily know more) but as much of natural causes & probable effects.

My advice to you had I been on the spot to have given it, would have been, after writing as you have written, to dedicate as you intended & have done – to sen present the book tho the regular channel of the Librarian,

& then to leave it to its fate, hoping nothing & expecting nothing. Nothing was to be gained by showing any solicitude concerning the event, – but something might be lost.

I am not acquainted with the Librarian, & could be of no use to you in that quarter. – Your views should be directed to this Literary Academy,

– of which I know nothing more than what the newspapers tell me, – but which proposes (if I understand its meaning) to grant honorary annuities, as well as to offer premiums.

The first opportunity which I shall have of noticing your writings, will be in an account of the Xxxx Gregoires Histoire des Sectes Religieuses, which will be my next article in the QR.

– Be assured that I shall not omit any opportunity which I can find

When you sent a copy to Murray, for himself, – you did not call to mind the old proverb about sending coals to Newcastle. In all likelihood he looked at upon it as intended for the QR.

& did not suppose that it required an acknowledgement.