G. does (except that she is fair), and is much prettier than the Fornarina; but I have no picture of her except a miniature, which is very ill done; and, besides, it would not be proper, on any account whatever, to make such a use of it, even if you had a copy.

“Recollect that the two new Cantos only count with us for one.  You may put the Pulci and Dante together:  perhaps that were best.  So you have put your name to Juan, after all your panic.  You are a rare fellow.  I must now put myself in a passion to continue my prose.  Yours,” &c.

     “I have caused write to Thorwaldsen.  Pray be careful in sending my
     daughter’s picture—­I mean, that it be not hurt in the carriage,
     for it is a journey rather long and jolting.”

* * * * *

LETTER 364.  TO MR. MURRAY.

     “Ravenna, March 28. 1820.

“Enclosed is a ‘Screed of Doctrine’ for you, of which I will trouble you to acknowledge the receipt by next post.  Mr. Hobhouse must have the correction of it for the press.  You may show it first to whom you please.

“I wish to know what became of my two Epistles from St. Paul (translated from the Armenian three years ago and more), and of the letter to R——­ts of last autumn, which you never have attended to?  There are two packets with this.

“P.S.  I have some thoughts of publishing the ‘Hints from Horace,’ written ten years ago[71],—­if Hobhouse can rummage them out of my papers left at his father’s,—­with some omissions and alterations previously to be made when I see the proofs.”

[Footnote 71:  When making the observations which occur in the early part of this work, on the singular preference given by the noble author to the “Hints from Horace,” I was not aware of the revival of this strange predilection, which (as it appears from the above letter, and, still more strongly, from some that follow) took place so many years after, in the full maturity of his powers and taste.  Such a delusion is hardly conceivable, and can only, perhaps, be accounted for by that tenaciousness of early opinions and impressions by which his mind, in other respects so versatile, was characterised.]

* * * * *

LETTER 365.  TO MR. MURRAY.

     “Ravenna, March 29. 1820.

“Herewith you will receive a note (enclosed) on Pope, which you will find tally with a part of the text of last post.  I have at last lost all patience with the atrocious cant and nonsense about Pope, with which our present * s are overflowing, and am determined to make such head against it as an individual can, by prose or verse; and I will at least do it with good will.  There is no bearing it any longer; and if it goes on, it will destroy what little