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y everything by heart. I think I shall enjoy Rome very much, because I shall go to see only the things I want to. Having seen everything twice before with care, I regard myself as emeritus. If at any time you want to know what we are doing, you have only to stop and see Lizzie a moment. She always has the last news, and will be only too happy to tell them, or read them, in exchange for the great pleasure a little visit from you will giveher. . . . . I am very glad to hear that your Robertson, expurgatus et emendatus, is so near the confines of day. I only wish it were all your work instead of a part; for respectable as the old, philosophical Edinburgh clergyman was, he can never be made fit to fill the gap between Ferdinand and Isabella and Philip II. . . . . Ma basta. Yours always, Geo. Ticknor To William H. Prescott. Rome, January 25, 1857. Dear William,—I have received your characteristic and agreeable letter of December 8, and received it in Rome, as you though