dded. He threatens to charge me 20 percent commission. If, as
he computes from your hint of 2/7, the work costs you, say, 70
cents per copy, unbound; he reckons it at a dollar, when bound;
then 75 cents duty in Boston, $1.75. He thinks we cannot set a
higher price on it than $3.50, _because_ we sold our former
edition for $2.50. On that price, his commissions would be 70
cents; and $1.05 per copy will to you. If when we see the book,
we venture to put a higher price on it, your remainder shall be
more. I confess, when I set this forth on paper, it looks as bad
as your English trade,--this barefaced 20 percent; but their
plea is, We guarantee the sales; we advertise; we pay you when
it is sold, though we give our customers six months' credit. I
have made no final bargain with the man, and perhaps before the
books arrive I shall be better advised, and may get better terms
from him. Meantime, give me the best advice you can; and
despatch the books with all speed, and if you send six hundred, I
think, we will sell them.

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* In the first edition of this Correspondence a portion of this
letter was printed from a rough draft, such as Emerson was
accustomed to make of his letters to Carlyle. I owe the original
to the kindness of the editor of the _Athenaeum,_ in the pages
of which it was printed.
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I went to the _Athenaeum,_ and procured the _Frasers'_ and will
print the _Novelle_ and the _Mahrchen_ at the end of the Fourth
Volume, which has been loitering under one workman for a week or
two past, awaiting this arrival. Now we will finish at once.
_Cruthers and Jonson_ I read gladly. It is indispensable to such
as would see the fountains of Nile: but I incline to what seems
your opinion, that it will be better in the final edition of your
Works than in this present First Collection of them. I believe I
could find more matter now of yours if we should be pinched
again. The Cat-Raphael? and _Mirabeau_ and _Macaulay?_ Stearns
Wheeler is very faithful in his loving labor,--has taken a world
of pains with the sweetest smile. We are very fortunate in
having him to friend.--For the _Miscellanies_ once more, the two
boxes containing two hundred and sixty copies of the first series
went to sea in the "St. James," Captain Sebor, addressed to Mr.
Fraser. (I hope rightly addressed; yet I saw a memorandum at
Munroe's in which he was named _John_ Fraser.)

Arthur Buller has my hearty t