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New York, May 18, '39
My Dear Sir:
Permit me to inquire, if you directed your clerk
at Auburn to forward the [rest ?] of your [progress ?]
as mentioned in your last, some weeks since? It has
not yet reached us; and as there is but one number
more, of the thirteen the volumes, to be prepared for the
press, I am exceedingly anxious to include it in that
issue; having "filed a declamation against you,"
to this effect, in a notice to our readers, a month
or two ago.
You will be gratified, I am sure, to learn, that,
wide as was our circulation, it is rapidly increasing,
at home and abroad. We have added a thousand
copies to our edition, since the accession of Mr. Irving,
who, as I gather from a recent letter from our Lon-
don publishers, is equally popular in England,
(over)