There is to be a "Supplement
to the First Edition," containing all the new matter that is
_separable:_ of this too the Wileys shall have their due Copy to
reprint: it is what I could do to keep my faith with purchasers
of the First Edition here; but, on the whole, there will be no
emulating of the Second Edition except by a reprint of the whole
of it; changes great and small have had to introduce themselves
everywhere, as these new Letters were woven in.--I hope before
May 3d I shall have ascertained whether it will not be the
simplest way (as with my present light it clearly appears) to
give the sheets direct to the Wiley and Putnam here, and let
_them_ send them? In any case, the cargo shall come one way
or other.
Furthermore,--Yes, you shall have that sun-shadow, a
Daguerreotype likeness, as the sun shall please to paint it:
there has often been talk of getting me to that establishment,
but I never yet could go. If it be possible, we will have this
also ready for the 3d of May. _Provided_ you, as you promise, go
and do likewise! A strange moment that, when I look upon your
dead shadow again; instead of the living face, which remains
unchanged within me, enveloped in beautiful clouds, and emerging
now and then into strange clearness! Has your head grown
grayish? On me are "gray hairs here and there,"--and I do "know
it.
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