[Sends "something in a similar vein to that from wh(ich) I drew 'Washington's Watch'"; says he and [Julian or Nathaniel] Hawthorne once considered writing a series of children's tales; says he periodically feels like writing some of the plots he thought of and would be glad to place them in Harper's Bazar if she likes them; mentions possible trip to New York and bringing his wife Rose Hawthorne Lathrop to see her.]

[Regrets not being able to lecture before Renton's union; says he may be able to next winter if he doesn't got to Europe . ]

[Acknowledges receipt of the addressee's letters about Charles Follen McKim and William Rutherford Mead for the Cyclopeadia; says the matter is settled; says he would have been glad to assist, as he knows both men and could have spoken or written to them.]

[Asks him to send a copy of the paper which contained the letters for the Hebrew Charity Fair . ]

[Answers some questions from Johnson's India correspondent; says he doesn't know of an allusion to "parchment pennies" in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's works; suggests that the correspondent remembers "Pine-Tree Shillings" from Grandfather's Chair ; alludes to Le Sage's Dialogues, Serious and Comic, between Two Chimneys of Madrid , which is sometimes in the same volume as Devil on Two Sticks ; gives a brief synopsis of the latter; mentions Asmodeus, a character in Devil on Two Sticks . ]

[Mentions just returning from New York ; regrets not being able to participate in the Authors' Reading for John Boyle O'Reilly 's monument fund, as he'll be in New York at the time Roche wants him in Malden, Massachusetts ; says he may be able to help in some other way.]

[Encloses an addition to the Appendix (probably to A Story of Courage ); asks that the following line also be added to the Contents, under appendix: IV. Rev. James Curley , S. J.]

[Asks to meet with McClure or the editor of the magazine ( McClure's Magazine ?) the next day.]

[Says he returned the proof of [James] Bayard Taylor 's poem, probably "A Lover's Tests," with annotations by Thomas Bailry Aldrich , to Thomas Niles ; asks Wilson to take the enclosed note to Niles and to "ask him if, in the N[o] N[ame] Vol[ume] of poems, A Masque of Poets , he wishes poems run on to each other, instead of breaking pages"; says it would look better if they weren't run on.]

[Says that he fears she may not have received the note he sent to her at Century Magazine , perhaps because it was forwarded to New London ; asks if Walter [Learned ?] is in town and where he will be staying.]