Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story, to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.
It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two years' imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.
[The preface in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know if "to know" means "to let you know."
I'd like to know what "of less moment still" means here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
It would concern the reader little, perhaps, if he/she knew how sorrowfully ... of still less importance
— GPY
It would concern the reader little, perhaps, if he/she knew how sorrowfully ...
of still less importance
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