I have not read
again Sterling's letters, which I keep as good Lares in a special
niche, but I have no recollection of anything that would be
valuable to you. For the American Public for the Book, I think
it important that you should take the precise step of sending
Phillips and Sampson the early copy, and at the earliest. I saw
them, and also E.P. Clark, and put them in communication, and
Clark is to write you at once.
Having got so far in my writing to you, I do not know but I shall
gain heart, and write more letters over sea. You will think my
sloth suicidal enough. So many men as I learned to value in your
country,--so many as offered me opportunities of intercourse,--
and I lose them all by silence. Arthur Helps is a chief
benefactor of mine. I wrote him a letter by Ward,--who brought
the letter back. I ought to thank John Carlyle, not only for me,
but for a multitude of good men and women here who read his
_Inferno_ duly. W.E. Forster sent me his Penn Pamphlet; I sent
it to Bancroft, who liked it well, only he thought Forster might
have made a still stronger case.
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