s 
there (L.S.), and no one cared to make any in- 
quiry. I wrote to the person in charge of the 
mailing at Pittsburg, and today (I wrote the 
23 #uly) rac'd word that she would write Dr.J. 
Meanwhile, the Intelligencer had sent me dupli¬ 
cate page proofs, and I have corrected the ob¬ 
vious errors, and have sent the whole thing b 
back with orders to PRINT. PDQ. 
On Sept, Howe first sent his MSS late, 
then had a lot of errors, and finally said that 
he had omitted a key, "which he would supply 
in galley". I held up the whole thing, and 
sent the MSS back, with the request that he 
correct it in shape, as we could not afford (b 
pay for galley correctings that wern't needed . 
I wasn't quite so blunt as that, but it meant 
the same. SO, if you hear a loud noise, 
and a sound of very pointed profanity from the 
east, it's me, not the war in Europe. 
By the way, you remember taking some 
pictures here la3t summer, of the trees on 
