L[ydia] Maria Child ALS to James Munroe and Co[mpany], May 16, 1843

like The Neighbors, or as a bound volume?
Please answer this letter as son as you can. Ellis
Gray Loring, State St sends a package to me
every Wednesday Morning. A line left with him
in season, would reach me by the package. Mr.
Loring knows the merits of the Letters better than
any one else. Perhaps you would like to talk with
him about them. Charles Sumner of Boston, too,
has read most of those that have been published.
He is a stranger to me, and I do not know his
opinion of them; but you can ask it.

The Letters are of very various character, sometimes
playful, sometimes mystical, sometimes mere anecdote
and description, but generally of a poetic and
imaginiative cast.

Please answer as soon as convenient, for I have
spoken to some publishers here, and I wish to decide
who will publish them.

Yrs respectfully,

L. Maria Child.

P.S. I do not know where Mr Hendee now is. Will you
have the goodness to send the enclosed to him, if he is in