This they refused.

I read the correspondence at the time.
"Our aim," they said, "in making the engagement, had reference to our own circulation in the United States, which exceeds twenty-seven thousand weekly." I suggested to Artemus that he enter his book, "Artemus Ward in London," in advance, and he did write to Oakey Hall, his New York lawyer, to that effect.

Before he received an answer from Hall he got Carleton's advertisement announcing the book.

Considering this a piratical design on the part of Carleton, he addressed that enterprising publisher a savage letter, but the matter was ultimately cleared up to his satisfaction, for he said just before we parted: "It was all a mistake about Carleton.

I did him an injustice and mean to ask his pardon.
He has behaved very handsomely to me." Then the letters reappeared in Punch.
V Whatever may be thought of them on this side of the Atlantic, their success in England was undeniable.