University of Virginia Library

Letter 6

You see by this I have changed my abode for the Season. Jack Frost gives us carte blanche (almost literally) and we are once more among the "woods and braes of bonny" Edisto. Perhaps, this change has Somewhat delayed the progress of your proofsheet; the first part of which only reached me last evening. I have corrected it and return it by this day's mail. You refer to Some portions of your last which I left unanswered. The omission was surely accidental. Indisposition & the singular pressure of my literary

tasks, may have rendered me more than usually obtuse and unobserving. May I trespass upon you so far as to request that you will readvise me of any topic which I have failed to notice, — as just now amidst the confusion by which I am Surrounded, it will not be easy for me to lay hands upon the letter to which you allude. Your last letter dated Oct. 2 did not reach me until Nov. It is Endorsed, as brought by private hand, but at the Same time postmarked at Macon, Oct. 20.(?) Did I mention to you that one or two of your previous letters, Sent by private hand, were postmarked to me, a month after, from N. York? I see favorable notices of your work in Several of the Northern papers. I have no Sort of doubt that you will make a work highly deserving of both praise & profit. May they always go together. I give the rest of my letter to Mr. Griffin.