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 128 YEARS OF DISCIPLINE. [1843,

two, as well as the &quot; New World,&quot; are over whelmed with contributions which cost nothing, and are worth no more. &quot; The Knickerbocker &quot; is too poor, and only &quot;The Ladies Companion&quot; pays. O Sullivan is printing the manuscript I sent him some time ago, having objected only to my want of sympathy with the Committee.

I doubt if you have made more corrections in my manuscript than I should have done ere this, though they may be better ; but I am glad you have taken any pains with it. I have not pre pared any translations for the &quot; Dial,&quot; supposing there would be no room, though it is the only place for them.

I have been seeing men during these days, and trying experiments upon trees ; have in serted three or four hundred buds (quite a Buddhist, one might say). Books I have access to through your brother and Mr. McKean, and have read a good deal. Quarles s &quot; Divine Po ems &quot; as well as &quot; Emblems &quot; are quite a discov ery.

I am very sorry Mrs. Emerson is so sick. Re member me to her and to your mother. I like to think of your living on the banks of the Mill-

World by Park Benjamin, formerly of Boston, whose distinc tion it is to have first named Hawthorne as a writer of genius. &quot; Miss Fuller &quot; was Margaret, not yet resident in New York, whither she went to live in 1844.