_Revolution_
waits only for an Index which my man is now busy with. The
_Cromwell,_ Supplement and all, he has now got,--published two
days ago, after sorrowful delays. Your Copy will be ready _this
afternoon,_--too late, I fear, by just one day: it will lie, in
that case, for a fortnight, and then come. Wiley will find that
he has no resource but to reprint the Book; he will reprint the
Supplement too, in justice to former purchasers; but this is the
_final_ form of the Book, this second edition; and to this all
readers of it will come at last.
We expect the Daguerreotype by next Steamer; but you take good
care not to prepossess us on its behalf! In fact, I believe, the
only satisfactory course will be to get a Sketch done too; if
you have any Painter that can manage it tolerably, pray set about
that, as the true solution of the business--out of the two
together we shall make a likeness for ourselves that will do.
Let the Lady Wife be satisfied with it; then we shall pronounce
it genuine!--
I envy you your forest-work, your summer umbrages, and clear
silent lakes.
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