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a national subject, & I find D.^r Darwin's Bookseller is of my opinion: since he declines publishing the first part of the Botanic Garden (which he purchases) till politics are beome more settled & consequently less interesting, I conceive to the no small mortification of the Doctors [sic] vanity, tho he is himself much too discreet to sacrifice interest to ambition.

Even I am going to read Payne after reading the Rights of Woman which I brought with me from Darley & it has certainly the first of merits since it kept me awake two days in one of the most depressive colds I have ever experienced. All the Evanses & Strutts who are great Revolutionists admire it with enthusiasm & I confess I so highly approve of the general design that I wish the Work more perfect, or rather less defective