am not sure--so much has your criticism on 'Tony' weighed with me, and so far have I welded his fortunes by your counsel--that you'll not have to own it one of these days as your own, and write 'T. B. by J. B.' in the title. In sober English, I am greatly obliged for all the interest you take in the story,--an interest which I insist on believing includes me fully as much as the Magazine. For this reason it is that I now send you another instalment, so that if change or suppression be needed, there will be ample time for either. "Whenever Lytton.
