If you are to be absent from New York any more than 48 hours, don’t go to Fredonia. S Have somebody up do the packing under Annie’s supervision. After all our efforts & all our hopes we are going to have a brief canvass at last. Your canvassers are not all secured yet—yet we have but 5 or 6 weeks left before publication. Bliss never issued an octavo for me with less than 43,000 subscribers. I was expecting to beat Bliss this time. Our main harvest has got to come before the issue of the book; so I strongly advise against the Fredonia trip. Your personal presence in New York is worth that of a dozen Marshes or other subordinates at this most important time.

Your aunt Livy is not getting along fast; is very weak, & wasted to a shadow. Gains a trifle of strength in the daytime, & loses it again at night through loss of sleep.

At the TS T. S. meeting there were about 60 stockholders. They ga conferred full powers on the Directors to raise capital, &c. Page was brought to book—that is, made to stand up & distinctly say he knew the machine to be now flawless. A capital of $1,000,000 was proposed to be raised. I get these details from Whitmore, who was present.