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“John Warren & his wife are invited to dine here, to name own day in the next fortnight.—I do not expect them to come.— Wyndham Knatchbull is to be asked for Sunday he is cruel enough to consent, somebody must be contri meet him.”

“Upon the whole however I am quite vain enough & well satisfied enough.—The work is rather too light & bright & sparkling;—it wants shade;—it wants to be stretched out here & there with a long Chapter—of sense if it could be had, if not of solemn specious nonsense—about something unconnected with the story…or anything that would form a contrast.”

“I must confess that I think her [Elizabeth] as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, & how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.—There are a few Typical errors—& a 'said he' or a 'said she would sometimes make the Dialogue more immediately clear-but ‘I do not write for such dull Elves'