he book is $2.50; the cost of a copy, $1.26;
the bookseller's commission, 50 cts.; so that T.C. only gains 74
cts. on each copy they sell. But we have two hundred
subscribers, and on each copy they buy you have $1.26, except in
cases where the distant residence of subscribers makes a cost of
freight. You ought to have three or four quarters of a dollar
more on each copy, but we put the lowest price on the book in
terror of the Philistines, and to secure its accessibleness to
the economical Public. We printed one thousand copies: of
these, five hundred are already sold, in six weeks; and Brown
the bookseller talks, as I think, much too modestly, of getting
rid of the whole edition in one year. I say six months. The
printing, &c. is to be paid and a settlement made in six months
from the day of publication; and I hope the settlement will be
the final one. And I confide in sending you seven hundred
dollars at least, as a certificate that you have so many readers
in the West. Yet, I own, I shake a little at the thought of the
bookseller's account. Whenever I have seen that species of
document, it was strange how the hopefulest ideal dwindled away
to a dwarfish actual. But you may be assured I shall on this
occasion summon to the bargain all the Yankee in my constitution,
and multiply and divide like a lion.

The book has the best success with the best. Young men say it is
the only history they have ever read. The middle-aged and the
old shake their heads, and cannot make anything of it. In short,
it has the success of a book which, as people have not fashioned,
has to fashion the people. It will take some time to win all,
but it wins and will win. I sent a notice of it to the
_Christian Examiner,_ but the editor sent it all back to me
except the first and last paragraphs; those he printed. And the
editor of the _North American_ declined giving a place to a paper
from another friend of yours. But we shall see. I am glad you
are to print your _Miscellanies;_ but--forgive our Transatlantic
effrontery--we are beforehand of you, and we are already
selecting a couple of volumes from the same, and shall print them
on the same plan as the _History,_ and hope so to turn a penny
for our friend again. I surely should not do this thing without
consulting you as to the selection but that I had no choice. If
I waited, the bookseller would have done it himself, and carried
off the profit. I sent you (to Kenne