I called at the Tribune Office with your note & enclosures & Greeley not being in left it with Dana for him. I have called several times since but [372] have not been able to see Greeley, nor has he apparently done anything in consequence of my request, though Dana says he intended to.

I have also seen Raymond who thinks “it is not our case” to make the most of the free-soil prospects in Kansas, because if you give people the impression that there are great probabilities of its being made free they will say, “Then what the devil are you making such a fuss about it for”—& go back to old parties.

To which I haven’t any quite satisfactory reply.

Have you?

I am writing now while I wait to have my ammunition boxed up. My shipment has been detained day after day till this time by the failure of contractors to furnish fuses for shells. I was determined not to pay them for anything until they gave me everything, lest they should be tricky. I believe it will go this afternoon—a 12 pound howitzer, 24 shell & 24 canister cartridges. After paying for everything I shall have a balance left of 30 or 40 dollars—which belongs to the military organization of Kansas, virtually.

I think I will send it to St. Louis to be expended for powder for them. I don’t like to send powder from here—& have had the cartridges packed without it.

I am exceedingly busy or I should have replied to your letter sooner. One of my partners is at the West. We are organizing a new Children’s Magazine—a Junior Put—and my book is slowly printing-to be published in December. The printer’s devils haunt me—tight market without & some shinning to be done, which is dreadful punishment to a contemplative man.

Please send your manuscript to “Dix & Edwards for the editor of Putnam’s Monthly.”