—The only difficulty about getting the whole emigration matter placed under your sole direction, is that you have let FitzGerald expect that you would help him as a helper. As long as he hopes that you may undertake the work under him or subject to his interference, he will not page 314give it quite up: but when he finds that you will not undertake less than the whole—power, responsibility and all—he will be glad to give up altogether: and this will be done to-morrow if you stand firm.