On Monday night & yesterday morning I visited the never-sufficiently-by-the-Citizens-venerated, and if time and circumstance permit, ever, after three Centuries hence, most venerable Institutioni.e. the London Institution where Upcott served as assistant librarian. The London Institution was an educational foundation which for a few decades was instrumental in disseminating scientific and academic knowledge, particularly among the dissenters who were barred from the public universities. [return] with the hope of seeing you—but whither strays the collector?

Now mark me—in the palm. I have a heavy payment to make this forenoon, and, that being a weighty matter, I say most seriously, that if you possibly can let Ben have Sixty Pounds it will permit me to finish the subscribing of my MysteriesHone's which was just being published in May of 1823. [return] with which I get on capitally — and that interruption will take place if you cannot, for instead of finishing the West End & delivering the books at 12 o'clock I must go dunning, & have a storm from the booksellers who have already subscribed, past all bearing by one who is author as well as publisher.

Do then my dear fellow oblige me with the needful — and let the Mysteries unfold themselves to public view in the Booksellers windows. Money is the forceps of delivery without pain.