Yes, make two sets of the plates & dies, & print 50,000 copies of the book. Bliss usually issued with upwards of 40,000 orders, & only 20,000 books to supply them with.

In proof-reading I shall cause you no delay—but I don’t answer for Mrs. Clemens, who has not edited the book yet, & will of course not let a line of the proof go from here till she has read it & possibly damned it. But she says she will put aside everything else, & give her entire time to the proofs.

No, I don’t want to read proof of the old Atlantic matter—but I want it read almighty carefully in Boston., & no improvements attempted.

We must give Webster all the thunder-&-lightning circulars & advertising enginery that is needful. We must sell 100,000 copies of the book in 12 months, & shan’t want him complaining that we are the parties in fault if the sale falls short of it.

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When you have decided what to condemn in the last batches, run down here with it——no, I’ll run up there; it might get lost in transitu.