I’m going to talk with George Warner about those lectures, as soon as he returns to town. We must have them, because then you & Mrs. Conway will have to come to Hartford, & so we’ll get a visit out of you—a thing we very much want—& I suppose I need the information that is in the lectures, too. I suppose we shall be in Elmira, N. Y., when your ship arrives, butⒶemendation no matter, we shall be in Hartford by the time the lecture-season opens.

Consound it, I am ever so sorry things didn’t turn out as Chatto wished, & as he had a right, no doubt, to expect, but dog’d if I know where the fault lies. I looked sharply after Bliss in the matter of the advance-sheets; & maybe I told him about the other things, & maybe I forgot it. Maybe I only tried to tell him, & failed; he never lets you get a word in edgeways. Dam business of all sorts!—that’s my only religious creed.