January 18 Saturday – Elisha Bliss wrote to Sam, anxious to secure promise that IA would be published by American Publishing, at future agreed upon term. [MTP].

…we will make liberal terms with you for it, in some shape most satisfactory to you. We think a fair copyright will pay you best. Suppose we leave it just this way for the present. You give us the refusal of your book, that is to say, you agree to give us the first opportunity for an arrangement with you & let it be understood between us that you are to get up one end & we are to publish it, terms to be agreed upon after this, when we can meet & talk together [MTP]. Note: the words “fair copyright” were underlined in ink on this typed letter, perhaps by Clemens.