. William Hone; his life and times. ;2j 0). GETTING OUT OF KINGS BENCH PRISON 293 pressure of affairs since I came hither, it escaped metill this (Sunday) morning that I had not posted offmy letter. You will do me the justice, I hope, tobelieve that I much regret my inability to perform whatI had volunteered for De Foe, and should have executedwith pleasure on behalf of both author and certainly never devised anything more satisfactory,or that I should have executed perhaps with betterknowledge of a subject wherein I willingly put pento paper. As it is I can say no more than that I
. William Hone; his life and times. ;2j 0). GETTING OUT OF KINGS BENCH PRISON 293 pressure of affairs since I came hither, it escaped metill this (Sunday) morning that I had not posted offmy letter. You will do me the justice, I hope, tobelieve that I much regret my inability to perform whatI had volunteered for De Foe, and should have executedwith pleasure on behalf of both author and certainly never devised anything more satisfactory,or that I should have executed perhaps with betterknowledge of a subject wherein I willingly put pento paper. As it is I can say no more than that Ishall be obliged by your intimating to Mr. Wilson interms accordant with my own expressions of feeling,that I have withdrawn upon compulsion. A postscript adds :— * The copy of De Foe which I received, at thesame time with my own, for Mr. Hazlitt, I took tohim the same day, and left him gratified by receivingit, and in the best disposition to set to work uponit kindly. The exact nature of Hones scheme cannot be dis-covered ; it may have
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