Pray signify to him that he has done a thing agreeable to
me, and that it will be pleasant if I find it will not hurt
_him._ Profit to me out of it, except to keep his own soul clear
and sound (to his own sense, as it always will be to mine), is
perfectly indifferent; and on the whole I thank him heartily for
showing me a chivalrous human brother, instead of the usual
vulturous, malodorous, and much avoidable phenomenon, in
Transatlantic Bibliopoly! This is accurately true; and so far
as his publisher and he can extract encouragement from this, in
the face of vested interests which I cannot judge of, it is
theirs without reserve....
Adieu, my friend; I have not written so much in the Letter way,
not, I think, since you last heard of me. In my despair it often
seems as if I should never write more; but be sunk here, and
perish miserably in the most undoable, least worthy, most
disgusting and heart breaking of all the labors I ever had. But
perhaps also not, not quite. In which case--
Yours ever truly at any rate,
T.
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