I wish to provide myself with every
possible resource against the engrossing excitement of my
profession while I remain in it, and to fill its place whenever I
leave it, or it leaves me; all my occupations are with that view
and to that end.
My father has promised me to speak to Mr. Murray about publishing
my play and my verses. I am anxious for this for several reasons,
some of which I believe I mentioned to you; and to these I have
since added a great wish to have some good prints I possess framed,
for my little room, and I should not scruple to apply part of the
money so earned to that purpose. You asked me which is my room. You
remember the bathroom, next to what was my uncle John's bedroom, on
the third floor; the room above that my mother has fitted up
beautifully for me, and I inhabit it all day long with great
complacency and a sort of comfortable, Alexander-Selkirk feeling.
And this suggests a question which has seldom been out of my mind,
and which I wish to recall to yours. When do you intend to come and
see me? I can offer you a nest on the _fourth story_, which is
excellent for your health, as free a circulation of air as a London
lodging can well afford, and as fine a combination of chimney-pots
as even your love of the picturesque could desire.
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