—I take your letter to mean that you can't be ready by Saturday. So be it, if it must. But if you put off till the first February, I trust you will take real pains to improve the interval by organizing that facility of distribution which is all in all for a work of this sort. It should be as well known, and as easy to buy as a first number of one of Dickens's or Thackeray's periodical tales.

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In that case too, I think that it would be well to make the first number a double one, with a complete lot of information and a map of the Settlement, costing a shilling;.

But all this requires vigorous activity; and I wish it may suit you, but have doubts whether it is not too much out of your line.

I mentioned the double first number, in writing to Captain Bellairs last night.