now comes your part of the affair; in which I
would fain have had your counsel; but must ask your help,
proceeding with my own light alone. After Fraser's fifteen
hundred are printed off, the types remain standing, and I for my
own behoof throw off five hundred more, designed for your market.
Whether five hundred are too many or too few, I can only guess;
if too many, we can retain them here and turn them to account;
if too few, there is no remedy. At all events, costing me only
the paper and press-work, there is surely no Pirate in the Union
that can _undersell_ us! Nay, it seems they have a drawback on
our taxed paper, sufficient or nearly so to land the cargo at
Boston without more charge. You see, therefore, how it is. Can
you find me a Bookseller, as for yourself; he and you can fix
what price the ware will carry when you see it. Meanwhile I must
have his Title-page; I must have his directions (if any be
needed); nay, for that matter, you might write a Preface if you
liked,--though I see not what you have to say, and recommend
silence rather! The book is to be in three volumes duodecimo,
and we will take care it be fit to show its face in your market.
A few errors of the press; and one correction (about the sinking
of the _Vengeur,_ which I find lately to be an indisputable
falsehood); these are all the changes. We are to have done
printing, Fraser predicts, "in two months";--say two and a half!
I suppose you decipher the matter out of this plastering and
smearing; and will do what is needful in it. "Great inquiry" is
made for the _Miscellanies,_ Fraser says; though he suspects it
may perhaps be but one or two men inquiring _often,_--the dog!

I am again upon the threshold of extempore lecturing: on "the
Revolutions of Modern Europe"; Protestantism, 2 lectures;
Puritanism, 2; French Revolution, 2. I almost regret that I had
undertaken the thing this year at all, for I am no longer driven
by Poverty as heretofore. Nay, I am richer than I have been for
ten years; and have a kind of prospect, for the first time this
great while, of being allowed to subsist in this world for the
future: a great blessing, perhaps the greatest, when it comes as
a novelty! However, I thought it right to keep this Lecture
business open, come what might. I care less about it than I did;
it is not agony and wretched trembling to the marrow of the bone,
as it was the last two times. I believe, in spite of all my