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 ''that it is quite uncertain whether you will find it in any shop. I am not sure but authors must turn booksellers themselves. The price is'' $1.25. If you care enough for it to send me that sum by mail (stamps will do for change), I will forward you a copy by the same conveyance.

''As for the "more" that is to come, I cannot speak definitely at present, but I trust that the mine—be it silver or lead—is not yet exhausted. At any rate, I shall be encouraged by the fact that you are interested in its yield.'' Yours respectfully, Henry D. Thoreau.

["So poor a publisher," indeed. It was this same James Munroe that published Emerson's Nature; and it took him twelve years to sell an edition of five hundred copies. Verily,