All right. I have written the Atlantic people to send to Chatto the magazines containing the Mississippi articles, ; to-day & also an article entitled “A Literary Nightmare.” To-day I will send him two other Atlantics, containing my “Tale of a Tramp” inserted in pencil: a Canvasser” and “Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut.” I will also ship to him the to-day the proofs of a story which is to appear in the March No of Atlantic, & which Chatto can also put into one of his magazines & also into the new book (or books.)

I am also writing the Routledges that you have sole power over there to make book contracts for me, & that when I last heard from you you were contemplating the issue of the Bermuda & MissippiⒶemendation articles. That is all I said to them.