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Take no thought about your proof-sheets; they shall be done as if Woodfall himself did them. Pray send us word of Mrs. Coleridge and little David Hartley, your little reality. Farewell, dear Substance. Take no umbrage at anything I have written. C. LAMB, Umbra. Miss Elizabeth Benger. See "Dictionary of Nationai Biography," iv. 221. January, 1801. Thanks for your letter and present.
"Heigho, I can't say no; But this piece of task-work off I can stave, O, For Malachi's posting into an octavo; To correct the proof-sheets only this night I have, O, So, Madame Conscience, you've gotten as good as you gave, O But to-morrow's a new day and we'll better behave, O, So I lay down the pen, and your pardon I crave, O." In the evening Mr. Gibson called and transacted business. March 2.
There stood the presses in their places; the one apprentice, in a paper cap, was cleaning the ink-balls; there was a creaking of a press over the printing of some trade circular, the old type was still unchanged, and in the dens at the end of the room he saw his son and the foreman reading books, which the "bear" took for proof-sheets.
This forenoon finished the review, and despatched it to Lockhart before dinner. Will Clerk, Tom Thomson, and young Frank Scott dined with me. We had a pleasant day. I have wrought pretty well to-day. But I must Do a little more And produce a little ore. November 26. Corrected proof-sheets of Chronicles and Tales. Advised Sheriff processes, and was busy.
Quarrier would rather have been left in quiet over the proof-sheets of his book it was already going through the press but he welcomed the visitor with customary friendliness. "Capital speech of Hartington's yesterday." "Very good answer to Cross. What do you think of John Bright and the licensed victuallers?"
For instance, when Miss Nightingale was travelling, there were the railway- tickets to be taken; and there were proof-sheets to be corrected; and then there were parcels to be done up in brown paper, and carried to the post. Certainly he could be useful. And so, upon such occupations as these, Arthur Clough was set to work.
Its note to me announcing the forwarding of your proof-sheets to France closed thus for your protection: "It is needless to ask you to avoid anything that he might consider as personal." It was well enough, as a measure of precaution, but really it was not needed.
After the interruption in 1759, it was resolved to bring out the ten volumes which were still wanting, in a single issue. Le Breton was entrusted with the business of printing them. The manuscript was set in type, Diderot corrected the proof-sheets, saw the revises, and returned each sheet duly marked with his signature for the press. At this point the nefarious operation of Le Breton began.
He never made the least of that trouble which so abounds for the hapless editor from narrower-minded contributors. If you wanted a thing changed, very good, he changed it; if you suggested that a word or a sentence or a paragraph had better be struck out, very good, he struck it out. His proof-sheets came back each a veritable "mush of concession," as Emerson says.
Worked a little, not much. June 2. Do. Do. Dined at Baron Hume's. These dinners are cruelly in the way, but que faut-il faire? the business of the Court must be done, and it is impossible absolutely to break off all habits of visiting. Besides, the correcting of proof-sheets in itself is now become burdensome. Three or four a day is hard work. June 3. Wrought hard.
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