Read it through once

The proposed remuneration for _Foscari_ was excellent, and the copyright of the play, together with the volume of _Dramatic Scenes_, were sold for a good figure to Whittaker. The latter work Miss Mitford had to complete, and in writing to Sir William Elford, thanking him for congratulations on _Foscari’s_ success, she told him: “I am just returned from passing a brilliant fortnight in London... and heard a great deal more literary news than I have head to remember or time to tell. For, alas! my dear Sir William, the holiday time of our correspondence is past. I am now a poor slave of the lamp, chained to the desk as a galley slave to his oar, and am at present triply engaged; for the monthly periodical publications, which I have been too much engaged to supply; to the Annuals, which, to my sorrow, are just on, and have begun dunning me again; and to my own bookseller, who has bought my _Dramatic Scenes_.”