Even $2 is much too low for the bed-clamp.—If I go into it eventually, it must be at $2.25 each for small size, & $3 for the large. There is no money in the thing at any cheaper rate. YouⒶemendation didn’t give me the main item: What do the annual receipts at present reach?

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I want nothing to do with business myself, just & so I do not wish to lend money which I must keep track of; but I’d just as soon write J Langdon & Co to lend you $4,500 on those securities asⒶemendation not. They will do it. Shall I write them? Or, shall I buy $4,500-worth of the house at the price you paid, & thus own that proportion of the property myself? If that suits you, draw that amount from C L Webster & Co and make out & send to Livy the necessary papers—for I should want my share of the house to be in her name.

If you should come across another dog-cheap house, I will buy with you—but I don’t wish to buy alone.

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Make Osgood furnish us his Jan statement. On that & other data you will know how to offer him little enough for the Library & my other books. We can strike up a trade with him yet, I guess.

Osgood has only 12,000 Mississippi’s left? Then 6,000 have been sold since our last settlement I judge.

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If we can only get a twist on the Am Pub Co!

As to terms, you & I will go & call on Bliss when I return, & see if he will lie to me as he has done to you.

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I ought to have staid at home & written another book. It pays better than the platform.