Murray's name to the title-page of the second edition of his "New View of Society. Croker, though the following remarks, now before us, are not in his handwriting. MY DEAR SIR WALTER, I feel greatly obliged by the favour of your kind letter, and for the good opinion which you are disposed to entertain of certain plans, of which you will by degrees be enabled to form, I hope, a still more satisfactory estimate. He will therefore proceed southwards by land next week, halting at Rokeby, and with his son at Notts, by the way. Sir Walter Scott's offer of information, [Footnote: Sir Walter's letter to Croker on the subject will be found in the "Croker Correspondence," ii. A Psychological Auto-Biography" would be too sesquipedalian a title; but "My Life Psychologically Related," or "The Psychology of my Life," or some such title, might be substituted. MON CHER MONSIEUR, J'espere que vous serez content de l'article de _Times_ sur la "Gallomania.
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