Again in the same spirit he writes to his editor and publisher:--

You ask in your last note for "Leasts and Mosts" for the "Atlantic."

You have made me so popular by your brilliant advertising and

arrangements (I will say, not knowing how to qualify your social

skill) that I am daily receiving invitations to read lectures far and

near, and some of these I accept, and must therefore keep the readable

lectures by me for a time, though I doubt not that this mite, like the

mountain, will fall into the "Atlantic" at last.

Ever your debtor, R. W. EMERSON.

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