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Richmond, Aug. 16, 1836.
My Dear Sir,
If it be not too late, I should like to have you refer, in your preliminary remarks, to the mass of reading there is in the Messenger - and to speak also of the untiring industry and the immense expence it must cost the Publisher to collect together such a [deleted]mass[/deleted] quantity of good matter monthly. Pay the mechanical department of [my?] Magazine whatever compliment you may believe it entitled to.
It may not be amiss to let you know that the two jeu d'esprits, "A [Cue?]," &c. and the "Polite Struggle" are from the pen of your townsman Paulding - and are as good [hits?] at wit as ever emanated from his pen. Suppose, in attending to them, you say that they would do credit either to Paulding or Irving. It will not do for [underline]you[/underline] to assert that P. is the writer of them.
Mr. Snowden has written to me recommending the Carvills instead of himself to take the agency of the Messenger in N. York? Will you ascertain either from L. or themselves, whether they accept or not, - and if they do, it would be as well to admit to that fact at the close of your Review.
So soon as I can purchase a set of the 1st volume, it shall be forthcoming.
Truly your friend,
T. W. White.
N.B. Along with this I send you the last sheet.
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Mr. William Scott, Office of the 'Weekly [Messenger?]," New York. Paid. }
