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two, as well as the " New World," are over whelmed with contributions which cost nothing, and are worth no more. " The Knickerbocker " is too poor, and only "The Ladies Companion" 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 " Dial," 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 " Divine Po ems " as well as " Emblems " 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. " Miss Fuller " was Margaret, not yet resident in New York, whither she went to live in 1844.
