I return the simultaning copy to you enveloped & stamped for transmission at the proper time. I wo I don’t know which No. of the Atlantic it is to appear in—that’s why I don’t transmit it myself—afraid it might get back here in the English mag. before it had appeared in the Atlantic. And then, again, if it is to be in your June No, I would not ship it to Chatto at all. I’m not particular about simultaning now-a-days, though I used to was—that is, I’m not at all particular if it must cost us any delay or inconvenience. I A squib like this is so likely to be thought of & done by somebody else, you see, while we fool around waiting on an English mag.

Just see how lucky a body is, sometimes! During four weeks Hartford hasn’t dared to quench its thirst with a drop of water, for the pipes deliver only a fearfully-stinking fluid which is thick with rotten fish—one has to hold his nose breath whilst he washes his face. I am not overstating it. Well, a fortnight ago we added a strip of 25 feet of ground to our south line, by purchase, & the very next day, just within the bounds of that strip, we struck a spring of cold, sweet, limpid & abundant water worth many millions of dollars! There’s enough of it for the cooking & drinking of a dozen families. Our other spring (just below the conservatory) was long ago destroyed by the plumbers in repairing a neighbor’s drain. May this one last abide! (Unberufen!)