London Weds afternoon 29th Oct
Some of the conversation between us this morn'g, on general topics, 
has been like a special watering to a certain seed which is sprouting, 
(but as yet has not reached the surface of the soil)!
If I could even help to give the despots a shove, 
I sbould certainly feel that I had not lived in vain.
Your hope, & expectation almost, that such a day may arrive, 
gives me great encouragement.
I think, when you do bye and bye see certain productions, 
you will not even despair of my being in time an Autocrat, in my own way; 
before whose marshalled regiments some of the iron rulers 
of the earth may even have to give way!
But of what materials my regiments are to consist, I do not at present divulge. 
I have however the hope that they will be most harmoniously disciplined troops; 
consisting of vast numbers, & marching in irresistible power to the sound of music. 
Is not this very mysterious? Certainly my troops must consist of numbers, 
or they can have no existence at all, & would cease to be the particular sort of troops 
in question. But then, what are these numbers?