To all which I could only answer,
that such conduct was that of men of honor, and would, in all
manner of respects, be satisfactory to me. Wherefore the new
Sheets of _Cromwell_ should now go by _his_ Package direct to New
York, and the other little Parcel for you he could send to
Munroe:--that as one consequence? "Yes, surely," intimated he;
but there were other consequences, of more moment, behind that.
Namely, that they wanted (the Wiley & Putnam house did) to
publish certain other Books of mine, the List of which I do not
now recollect; under similar conditions: viz. that I was to
certify, in a line or two prefixable to each Book, that I had
read it over in preparation for their Printer, and did authorize
them to print and sell it;--in return for which Ten percent on
the sale-price (and all manner of facilities, volunteered to
convince even Clark of Boston, the Lynx-eyed Friend now busy for
me looking through millstones, that all was straight, and said
Ten percent actually paid on every copy sold); This was Putnam's
Offer, stated with all transparency, and in a way not to be
misunderstood by either of us.
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