I have just received your note (dated tomorrow).

I am really sorry to hear of your disconnection with the C. & E. because it is so good a thing to have men of ability and cultivation, who can not [198] be made hacks, yet working as a part of the system of the newspaper. Your last gun was not only gratifying to my pride but happened most timely, the day of its publication being the day of debate on Mr. Dillon’s amendments in the Board & the Tribune & Herald having each an article in support of them & against my plan the same morning. Your article was more than once referred to and quoted from in the debate which resulted in a decided defeat of the amendments (& in Mr. Dillon; & Mr. Belmont; declining, in a huff, to act on any committees).

It will give [me] great pleasure to breakfast with you as you propose, and as I have several demands to be out of town Sunday, if equally convenient to yourself & to Curtis, I should prefer that you said Tuesday. Please let me know your conclusion as early as practicable.