Trubner & Co., in London. They had consented to look at it to
his settlement in London, had been forced to listen to some of it. They
at half profits, if I could get some Americanhouse to take five.html">five hundred
do this that I asked the Trubners if I might, without losing their offer,
almost joyously; and I began to take my manuscript about. At most places
The house promptest in refusing to consider it afterwards pirated one of
never paid me anything for it; though I believe the English still think.html">think
old buccaneering times. I was glad to goback to the Trubners with my
agreed to take those five hundred copies. This was Mr. M. M. Hurd, of
Cambridge. We played ring-toss and shuffleboard together, and became of
later, when I saw him in New York, that he consented to publish my book.html">book.
trying to justify himself in an imprudence, that it was not a great
truth I had not much myself. But the book had an instant success, and it
interest of a not wholly generous surprise at American things among the
caught the fancy of our cousins, and I think it was to this mood of
long and cordial reviews in all the great London journals, which I used
other people, I could not understand their coldness concerning them.
At Boston, where we landed on our return home.html">home, there was a moment when it
city which later became my home. I ran into the office of the Advertiser
paper.html">paper, and the managing editor made me promise not to take a place
hear from him, and when I returned to Boston a fortnight later, I found
the paper. They even gave me back half a dozen unprinted letters.
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