1I have received the book you sent, and I thank you. 1I am, however, extremely busy at this time. 1So I have not yet read it, though otherwise I very much long to. 1But I owe such reverence both to literature itself and to your writings that I think it irreverent to take them up except with an unoccupied mind. 2I strongly approve of your diligence in revising your works. 2Yet there is some limit, first because too much care wears a work down rather than improves it, and then because it calls us away from more recent work, and at the same time neither finishes the earlier pieces nor allows us to begin later ones.
2Farewell.