Royal Highness; but if you wish to do the Regent
that honour either now or at any future period I am
happy to send you that permission, which need not
require any more trouble or solicitation on your part.
'Your late works, Madam, and in particular "Mansfield Park," reflect the highest honour on your genius
and your principles. In every new work your mind
seems to increase its energy and power of discrimination. The Regent has read and admired all your
publications.
Accept my best thanks for the pleasure your
volumes have given me. In the perusal of them I
felt a great inclination to write and say so. And I
also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you
to delineate in some future work the habits of life,
and character, and enthusiasm of a clergyman, who
should pass his time between the metropolis and the
country, who should be something like Beattie's
Minstrel-
Silent when glad, affectionate tho' shy,
And in his looks was most demurely sad;
And now he laughed aloud, yet none knew why.
Neither Goldsmith, nor La Fontaine in his "Tableau
de Famille," have in my mind quite delineated an
English clergyman, at least of the present day, fond
of and entirely engaged in literature, no man's enemy
but his own. Pray, dear Madam, think of these
things.
'Believe me at all times with sincerity and
