for the Draft at the top of this leaf. One Colman,* a
kind of Agricultural Missionary, much in vogue here at present,
has given it me; it is Emerson's, the net produce hitherto (all
but two cents) of _Emerson's Essays._ I enclose farther the
Bookseller's hieroglyph papers; unintelligible as all such are;
but sent over to you for scrutiny by the expert. I gather only
that there are some Five Hundred and odd of the dear-priced
edition sold, some Two Hundred and odd still to sell, which the
Bookseller says are (in spite of pirates) slowly selling; and
that the half profit upon the whole adventure up to this date has
been L24 15s. 11d. sterling,--equal, as I am taught, at $4.88 per
pound sterling, to $121.02, for which, all but the cents, here is
a draft on Boston, payable at sight. Pray have yourself
straightway _paid;_ that if there be any mistake or delay I may
rectify it while time yet is.--I add, for the intelligence of the
Bookseller-Papers, that Fraser, with whom the bargain originally
stood, was succeeded by Nickerson; these are the names of the
parties. And so, dear Friend; accept this munificent sum of
Money; and expect a blessing with it if good wishes from the
heart of man can give one. So much for that.

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* The Reverend Henry Colman.
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Did you receive a Dumfries Newspaper with a criticism in it? The
author is one Gilfillan, a young Dissenting Minister in Dundee;
a person of great talent, ingenuousness, enthusiasm, and other
virtues; whose position as a Preacher of bare old Calvinism
under penalty of death sometimes makes me tremble for him. He
has written in that same Newspaper about all the notablest men of
his time; Godwin, Corn-law Elliott and I know not all whom: if
he publish the Book, I will take care to send it you.* I saw the
man for the first time last autumn, at Dumfries; as I said, his
being a Calvinist Dissenting Minister, economically fixed, and
spiritually with such germinations in him, forces me to be very
reserved to him.

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* The sketches were published the next year in a volume under
the title of _The Gallery of Literary Portraits._
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John Sterling's _Dial_ shall be forwarded to Ventnor in the Isle
of Wight, whenever it arrives. He was here, as probably I told
you, about two months ago, the old unresting brilliantly
radiating man. He is now much richer in money than he was, and
poorer by the loss of a good Mother and good W