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'Rah! I have yours of yesterday. It is just delightful to know you have a
publisher, or rather publishers, though I have felt sure from the turn things have
taken within two or
Rees, Welsh & Co. promise well. Only be sure your contracts are in form. Will it
be advisable to have a long contract? You may have a better offer yet.
life. If they take advantage of the present uproar, and
advertise you on the crest of this wave, they may secure a great sale. A publisher
with money, ardently believing in your book, "fresh, vehement and true," as Thomas
Davis says the
qui vive to turn everything to swell the fame of his
venture, might effect a sale which would be tremendous.
I am delighted at your prospect.
I earnestly hope
Dr. Channing wrote me from Providence a fortnight ago, in great indignation at
After long cogitation, I have concluded, from internal evidence, and feel that I can't
be mistaken, that "Sigma" is simply Stoddard, and I am going to answer him now and
give him hell. The way I shall manage it, I think you will approve.
rationale
of his infamous communication, is to give a
basis through the vilest calumniation, to the tottering action of Oliver Stevens
and Marston. I mean to point out this fact, and exterminate his effort, announcing
that I do so simply as preliminary
Also Tobey, the Boston postmaster. He shall have
a sample of the Day of Judgment. When I heard that George
I'll keep you posted. Pretty soon, I will have a petition started in Boston for the
Depend upon it, we are going to have music. I hope I shall see everything the press
has. I saw the Boston Sunday Herald, with your rendition poem printed with splendid
effect. Shall watch the Boston papers. Charley was going up to Boston, and would
have made me an exhaustive report on the roots of the matter, but unluckily has been
ordered to Memphis. Too bad!