Autograph Letter Signed "J Weiss" to "Morse"[Sidney H. Morse, editor of "The Radical"]

Author: 
John Weiss (1818-1879), Unitarian Minister, author, "second generation transcendentalist"
Publication details: 
Watertown, [MA], 26 December 1865.
£150.00
SKU: 8258

Four pages, 8vo, grubby and with fold marks but text clear and complete. Weiss is writing about an untimate contribution to "The Radical" and another article. "I don't know that it is a matter of much consequence, but I rather want to have my "Dangers" [Dangers of Our Political Machinery, published in "The Radical", No.III, Feb. 1866, p.208ff] in hand, that I may put it in print in some form - newspaper perhaps - beause it explains and fills out my sermon, especially on that delicate point of suffrage. | I went to town after it this very morning and found Brown in a paek of trouble because Johnson had not yet returned his proof, and the whole work was thrown back in ocnsequence. Now, you cannot afford that - either in time or money . . . You will have to tell him that he must have only a day or two for his proof. 'Tis quite enough time: enough to write a fresh discourse. | I fixed up [?'s] verses and gave them to Brown. They will be more appropriate in the next No. than "Found". | Postpone my "Religion and Science" [later published in the volume "Freedom and Fellowship", Boston, 1875] as long as you please. | My "address" is 25cts a copy, $5.00 for 25 copies. | May another Christmas find you with a smashing Subscription List and a lightsome heart. [subscription & signature followed by PS] "Find $2.00 for "Miss Gabrielle Eddy . . . She is 21 and just earned the mony in drawing-lessons."