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I sent to Dodsley some time since, who wrote to me by your order, what little alterations I had to make, & should be glad to know, whether you thought them for the better or the worse. he tells me now, he could finish in a fortnight, if I were in town, but this would be very inconvenient to me at present, so I must have the Sheets sent me to correct hither, & I suppose, it may come out in less than a Month ....
[ ] . . . you may imagine, I do not expect any thing very particular on either of these subjects, but some sort of satisfaction you will easily know how to give me in a letter; as it will be a good while, before I can see you.
Have you read Mad: Maintenon's Letters? or the Micromegas, or the dull Life of Dr Tillotson. I have gone thro' the 3d Vol: of the Biographia, wch will be a great Relief to you after Bayle's pedantic bawdy: all the Lives, mark'd with an E or a C, have something curious in them, those with a G are abominable foolish.
I have just received the first Proofs from Dodsly. I thought it was to be a Qto, but it is a little Folio. the Stanzas are number'd, wch I do not like.