clouds.

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* An article on Cromwell, in the _Dial_ for October, 1842.
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For the _Dial_ and its sins, I have no defence to set up. We
write as we can, and we know very little about it. If the
direction of these speculations is to be deplored, it is yet a
fact for literary history, that all the bright boys and girls in
New England, quite ignorant of each other, take the world so, and
come and make confession to fathers and mothers,--the boys that
they do not wish to go into trade, the girls that they do not
like morning calls and evening parties. They are all religious,
but hate the churches; they reject all the ways of living of
other men, but have none to offer in their stead. Perhaps, one
of these days, a great Yankee shall come, who will easily do the
unknown deed.

The booksellers have sent me accounts lately, but--I know not
why--no money. Little and Brown from January to July had sold
very few books. I inquired of them concerning the bill of
exchange on Fraser's Estate, which you mention, and they said it
had not been returned to them, but only some information, as I
think, demanded by Fraser's administrator, which they had sent,
and, as they heard nothing again, they suppose that it is allowed
and paid to you. Inform me on this matter.

Munroe & Co. allow some credits, but charge more debits for
binding, &c., and also allege few sales in the hard times. I