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Inadequacy of own work. Sorry to hear of PE's change of plan re Sophocles. Praise for first sheet of OT (sent by Collingwood). PE should assert claim to emendations etc. which have been forestalled in Erdfurt's edition - should also publish Aj. Or OC, neither of which Erdfurt has yet done. G. has just been ordained.

Canvassing PE's support for the father-in-law of a friend, Mr Carstairs, in his candidacy for a directorship of the East India Company. Bekker's Theognis - not sure of genuineness of 159 additional verses from the Modena ms., but will print them anyway as an appendix to vol. 1 of Poetae Minores. Vol. 2 to be ready by Christmas - printers busy with index - asks PE for his observations on Archilochus.

Hermann's Trachiniae disagrees with PE's views. Niebuhr and the intransigence of Mai. OUP and other Oxford news.

Asks PE to inspect a house he is thinking of buying in Bedford Place, London.

Marriage to Julia Elton. PE an executor of HH's will.

Thanks PE for inserting notice of marriage in papers. Is the house ready?

PE a candidate for the preachership of Lincoln's Inn (and several other letters re canvassing and counting votes). NB Lincoln's Inn not mentioned by Hallam in any of these letters - see note at 68 Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn.

Advises against taking precipitate steps. PE is unlikely to succeed - PE has had insufficient opportunity and no encouragement, and there is disparity of age and character. Failure will bring disagreeable consequences, coupled with the 'late business, which is by no means grown stale.'

Miss L has talked to a friend. PE has said evil and unfounded things to hurt Miss L's character, e.g. that she walked by moonlight with George Grote. PE should act as if he had never loved or hated. Miss L is handsome, clever and good-natured; she may not have acted rightly, but she has suffered very severely, not only in her prospects of Grote, which perhaps were never very decided but also by becoming a public talking point, and her spirits are now hurt. PE should be a friend, and even help her with 'young George.'

Knowing that PE has a 'tender regard for Westminster,' he questions the Latinity of the last 2 lines of the 1821 Prologue.