Dear Charles,—I am glad your critical friend likes
the “spirit” of the last articles. He durst not say they
were not worth printing, since men as good judges as himself
had actually printed them. I now send, for the last attempt
at the “Art of Poetry,” A Thunder Storm on the Lake—not
with the expectation of having Keen print it, but to elicit his
opinion.
Let me know at your earliest leisure what he says; although
for the present I cannot promise to answer your letters,
except with the greatest brevity.
