方宇兄:谢谢你的信。《野叟曝言》已收到了。便中当寄还。此书刻于常州,辛巳为光绪七年(1881),实是初刻初印本(此本似是活字本,但排的很好,不易证明为活字)。[编者按:此上有眉批云:“此本是活字本,已无可疑。适之。”]此本保存原稿残缺的情形,即“凡例”末条所谓“缺处仍依原本,注明‘下缺’,不敢妄增一字,贻笑大方”。 Fang Yu brother: Thank you for your letter. The wild boast has been received. Will be sent back. This book is carved in Changzhou, Sinbong seven years Guangxu (1881), it is the beginning of the first day of printing (this is a living letter, but the row is very good, not easy to prove that the movable type). [Editor’s note: There is eyebrows on this cloud: “This is a typeface, no doubt. Suitable. ”] This save the original incomplete situation, that According to the original, indicate ’under the missing’, can not jump words, I laughed generous .