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way. He dislikes New York very much. The Mercantile Library, that is, its Librarian, pre sented me with a stranger s ticket, for a month, and I was glad to read the " Re views " there, and Carlyle s last article. I have bought some pantaloons ; stockings show no holes yet. These pantaloons cost $2.25 ready made. In haste.
TO B. W. EMERSON (AT CONCORD).
STATEN ISLAND, September 14, 1843.
DEAR FRIEND, Miss Fuller will tell you the news from these parts, so I will only devote these few moments to what she does n t know as well. I was absent only one day and night from the island, the family expecting me back imme diately. I was to earn a certain sum before winter, and thought it worth the while to try various experiments. I carried " The Agricul turist" about the city, and up as far as Manhat- tanville, and called at the Croton Reservoir, where, indeed, they did not want any " Agricul turists," but paid well enough in their way.
Literature comes to a poor market here ; and even the little that I write is more than will sell. I have tried "The Dem. Review," "The New Mirror," and " Brother Jonathan." l The last
1 It may need to be said that these were New York week lies the Mirror, edited in part by N. P. Willis, and the New
