Nothing has occurred in other respects but what is agreeable....
"All my leisure (if that may be called leisure which employs nearly all my time) is devoted to perfecting the whole matter.

The invention of the correspondent, I think you will say, is a more essential improvement.

It has been my winter's labor, and, to avoid expense, I have been compelled to make it entirely with my own hands.

I can now give you its exact dimensions--twelve and a half inches long, six and a half wide, and six and a half deep.

It dispenses entirely with boxes of type (one set alone being necessary) and dispenses also with the rules, and with all machinery for moving the rules.