New York. Wednesday night. Burgess and Stringer are not promoting The Echo at all. The price is too high; believes $.25 is ample. Asks Griswold to send copies to various booksellers.

New York. Complains of the newspapers' neglect of his book [The Echo] in New York. Discusses some alterations for the next edition.

New York. Sends a corrected copy of some verses. Ridicules John Neal's contempt for Griswold.

New York. Approves of a book Griswold is planning [The Prose Writers of America?]. Suggests the inclusion of Professor [Levi] Frisbie, Bishop [John Henry] Hobart, Dr. [John] McVickar, and others, recommending various passages. Asks to see proofs of his poems [the fourth edition of The Vigil of Faith, New York 1845].

New York. Sunday night. Sends another "Song" [for The Vigil of Faith, fourth edition, New York 1845]. Asks Griswold to write something for the [New York Evening] Gazette. Mentions Griswold's coming [speech?] to the [New York] Historical Society.

N.p. Sends a list of copy still to be set up. Advises Griswold to come to Brooklyn to avoid the heat.

New York. Corrects an error on Philip Freneau, in The Poets of America.

New York. Mentions Griswold's "letters on Literature" in the [Washington Daily National?] Intelligencer. Comments amusingly on othe first meeting between [Edgar Allan] Poe and [Henry Theodore] Tuckerman. Teases Griswold about a lady.

New York. Criticizes Griswold's third letter to the [Washington Daily] National Intelligencer as "too oracularly positive." Condemns [Theodore?] Parker's Discourses [Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion, Boston 1842?]. Asks for proofs [of The Vigil of Faith?].

New York. Sends proofs [of The Vigil of Faith?]. Repeats Harper's offer to publish one of his books [probably the fourth edition of The Vigil of Faith, which Harper did publish shortly].

Harper's Publishing House. Asks Griswold to authorize Harper's to publish his poems [probably The Vigil of Faith] without delay.

N.p. Printed prospectus of Hewet's Excelsior, with marginal notes by Hoffman, announcing the publication of his book [The Vigil of Fatih].

New York. Asks Griswold to write an obituary notice on Maria Gowen Brooks. Discusses a further edition [of The Vigil of Faith?]. Criticizes Margaret Fuller's notice of [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow in the [New York] Tribune.

N.p. Saturday. Was disappointed not to see Griswold. Suggests details for binding The Vigil of Faith.

N.p. Encloses some ballads by Seba Smith and some poems of his own for his new edition [of The Vigil of Faith?].

New York. Discusses how he wrote "Tawasentha." Gives Griswold advice about his health.

New York. Monday morning. Reassures Griswold about his [Prose] Writers of Amerca [Philadelphia 1845], apparently attacked in the Literary World.

New York. Saturday. Mentions notices of a book [unidentified]. Promises to write "the generals" for Carey & Hart.