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was in the way Of business and have got more thar
he worth OF my money.
On the 9TH of Nav he adds.

hava cancellations Of procuring It a place In o
vnc1 ~ Ger so much for il as Carlyle but hope TO
gel $50 n YOU are satisfied TO take the 80 Tor your
Maine woods" say 40. and will send on the money
bt dont want to Jew, buying your articles at
half price to speculate upon II yon choose to et 20
that way e shall be So but would sooner do my pest
for you and send you the money
On the 18th of October. 1s4s. he writes:
Threak silence Of duration to inform you that
hopc on aca NJ and fbe Maine %oods xhcS
bongnf ~ You at Jews bargain and sold TIE Union
~ erJ,er Won al such rate shall insist inclosing
Won 25 more this letter. which viii still leave me $50
sof1ng your articles and getting paid for them-the
latter by far difficult portion of the business
In the letter of April II, 1913, Mr.. Greeley had
further said:
II You will write me or three articles IN the
Of the summer think can dispose OF them for your
nenedt Lat write NOT more than half as long your
a,cs ns sent me for hat il too long for The mara
Mai about your book the Weekrl Il aEythng going
about Il nowi Why did not Emerson try II ~ Lns-
land think thu HowItts could get it favorably before
British public. II You suggest any way wherein
put 1t forward do not hesitate but command me
In the letter of May Il he reiterates the advice to
be brief
when IN the spirit about half the length Of this. can
sell readily and simultaneously. The length 81 your
papers Is the only impedment to their apPrecAl9h uh
the magazines Give me- one or two shorter ana Will
try 20 com them speedily.
Nay % he returns 10 the charge when sending the
last $2J for the Maine Woods"
Write me something shorter when the spirit moves
never write . line Otherwise FOR the hack writer Is
sayis1 beast, know and will sell II fol you soon
quo these long articles cannot De aud leg the pub
nc know something OF your way OF thnsng 4n9 seeing;
vonr thought in az essay The Literary Lief You
need moi Inakc personal alusion. but KNOW yOn
write article worth reading en- that theme when you
are ID tie vein.
After a SIX months interval November 49, 154Sl
Greeley resumes IL similar strain:
FRiESD THoREAU: Yours Of the l7th received Say
AZ
have tued 10 serve you ana taVe teeu fuy 'iu Ior
my disbursements and trouble IL The premises 90
think You Will do well to send ne some passages
from one or J0h o. Your new works 10 dispose C 70 INC
maeaznes THIS Will be tue beef kind o. advertiser mt,
whether for publisher or for readers You MAJ wfie
with an Anglers PEN YET your writings naFe 20 heI an
Tile money value iii you ar known and talked u rs n
author Mr.. Emerson would have been twice as much
little just 10 let common PEG e know OF us ~ -te9ce
Graham OF me Union viii add many 10 the readers OF
the volume wuen issued Here is tie reason why British
cause they are thoroughly advertised through the
British reviews, magazines, ana journals ~nch crc1'
II you choose send OF your manuscripts viii
get published. hui cannot promise o. any consider
vii be better Your writings IN aiyance ~ thc gen
erai mind here Boston IS nearer tner standard
never saw you speak o. Wunt you send them
weeks Kind 10 EmersJ IN. II - doubtful about
Lay Seems you TINS season
Here the letter ceases for a time. " Monroe did
it,'-that Is. Boston BOOKSELLER puoiisHe1
when
By George Ripley ID IHE TRIBUNE, D4 Lower IL
he Massachusetts Quarterly anu by others else
U.e.c: but BOOK ClG Lot SCI, ana involved -
author in debt for its printing. To meet this lie
took I'D surveying rs q business, and after a time,
when some payments must &c iAduc, ne asAoc Us
friend Greeley loT ioan IL the interval MAJ sAEet
Fuller had written from Europe those rem 4rt"ple
letters tor The tribune, had married il ltalN,
sailed for home IN 1870, ana died on tie shore OF
Ere Island near Newly ORR, whittier Ih0ie4u Went
th her iIcDds &c learn her fatc, GIp recover ire
loved remains. This Ia July, lSOO, and De 10
doubt saw Mr.. Greeley there. year AID a hI.i
atcI when he was seeking opportunities 10 lecture.
ne wrote TO Nh. Greeley again, II February, DO
offering himself 10 lecture IN course 81 Ne"-1 OK,
| which He tribune Editor had some interest IL.
| The reply vas Jhls:
NEW YORK. February a, 1852.
My FRIEND THoREAU Thank you Tor your remen-
brance, though The MOTTO you suggest y
Tue Peoples Course Is iGii OI 'ue ,eAeoI 4ii Sn - -
we're not your would probably rot pass because
II Is not merely necessary b4t esch iecLuref sneS e
! MAJ beforehand. Whatever draws loss than fifteen
hundred DAMAGES the nutuces oil the movement
40 low Is tie admission and larse Inc expense But
Tuoreau YOU better speaker than many, but lar
notes Sid for dcIars yea and son vii sell
NJ articles. shorter, you please nan iDe iSl l
/ VIII W - WIZ HORAcK G4RELEY.
| T1oreau responded at once With some manuscripts
March 81, and was thus add5eSse'.' NJ trcl - py
sh4l get yoa soae money for lie articles YOU cen:
me though not Immediately A. 20 your i"n< tc'ot oI
a CaupiI-L tour doot Know 1t iooaS u-iu4hsSelnle
can't you IL INTO tnree or four ano "int al Aat re-
laLrs t. timel Toe ciIes described 10 d~otb, uut
m Won are al nole VIII Mature ssd jA4t she r4reiy
AID slowly changes b-eaA 1913 W, 4 !o1 Co., "1d
| 10 have 49, swallowed ana d-Stst-c
, rrcol later he sert a Latter f.q.,, the rcb-
| - Sartair occentIng ris artiries for a
| low uri,e and adds: il yJu buak up
! your Excursion 10 Canada mo three q four az
| flrI.r have no do ht could get - published
LII terusv Apr,l I-Jy bs return, to a forni-
| er proposition, tLat IhOreau shall write about
| Emtrson a. ne diG ears before Oh Carlyle.
| ... - - $780,. , 800
tEIENp 4hOIthAL "ihh % ~ ~ ~ IA a. i "
Lap W .'le - a. ~ It. .t.ef ite ttis ~
" oo t f 7r.,ivg of ni. ,yri,Ig but 10 give
$40 lJea If me Poet the Genius the Aa,itA some
! III. T',.f,rd 81. rcrv aud home influence