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I turned the check for $4,309.45 over to Mr. Langdon yesterday—I shall not use the money for a month yet, & he will pay me f Ⓐemendation interest. I expected to want it peremptorily in February, but didn’t.1explanatory note

A first-class New York magazine wants me to edit a humorous department in it. They want ten pages a month. They offer twenty-four hundred dollars a year for the service, & then they want a publishing house there to have the privilege of issue ing the matter in book form at the end of the year in a $1.50 book (250 pp. 12mo,) & pay me a royalty of 20 per cents on each copy sold. I have just written them that you would have to have a bid in the matter.2explanatory note I also wrote that I would do the editing for $2,000 a year editing for a little trifle editing only on condition that I own the matter after use in the magazine & have the privilege of doing just what I please with it. All this had better be kept still for the present.

No—shan’t go east for a long time.

I have a sort of vague half-notion of spending the summer in England. I could write a telling book. But who we don’t like to leave our delightful nest even for a day. When Have you heard yet what the possibilities are in the matter of selling our book there?3explanatory note