The photograph comes dated 25 April, 1846,
and he writes, 'I am fifty years old."'
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I am heartily glad that you are in direct communication with
these really energetic booksellers, Wiley and Putnam. I
understood from Wiley's letter to me, weeks ago, that their
ambition was not less than to have a monopoly of your books. I
answered, it is very desirable for us too; saving always the
rights of Mr. Hart in Philadelphia.--I told him you had no
interest in Munroe's _Sartor,_ which from the first was his own
adventure, and Little and Brown had never reprinted _Past and
Present_ or _Chartism._ The _French Revolution, Past and
Present, Chartism,_ and the _Sartor,_ I see no reason why they
should not have. Munroe and L. & B. have no real claims, and I
will speak to them. But there is one good particular in Putnam's
proffer to you, which Wiley has not established in his (first and
last) agreement with me, namely, that you shall have an interest
in what is already sold of their first edition of _Cromwell._ By
all means close with Putnam of the good mind, exempting only
Hart's interest.
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