Letter from Henry Norman Hudson to G. P. Putnam & Co.

Boston, Oct. 18, 1852 G. P. Putnam & Co., Gentlemen: I received a few days since the circular which you did me the honour to send, soliciting my hand to the new Magazine which you have in purpose to establish. I have long thought that the national metropolis ought by all means to furnish the nation with a standard literary organ. Towards such a mark I can do but little, at least for the present; and what little I can do will be, I fear, of little worth: however, such and so much aid as I can render shall be forthcoming, provided the editorial management be such as my infirmities will suffer me to work smoothly with. So far as I can judge of your plan, it seems a good one. Mr. Irving and Mr. Bryant are good men, none better, both for counsel and for execution. Very truly yours [ ?] H. N. Hudson.