Glad to be rid of Osgood.

I am not able to see that anything can save Huck Finn from being another defeat, unless you are expecting to do it by tumbling books into the trade, & I suppose you are not calculating upon any sale there worth speaking of, since you are not binding much of an edition of the book.

As to notices, I suggest this plan: Send immediately, copies (bound & unbound) to the Evening Post, Sun, World, & the Nation; the Hartford Courant, Post & Times; & the principal Boston dailies; Baltimore American. (Never send any to N. Y. Graphic.)

Keep a sharp lookout, & if the general tone of the resulting notices is favorable, then send out your 300Ⓐemendation press copies over the land, for that may possibly float a further canvass & at least create a bookstore demand. No use to wait for the magazines—how in hell we overlooked that unspeakably important detail, utterly beats my time. We have not even arranged to get English notices from Chatto & shove them into the papers ahead of our publication.