Hurst & Orme.

He confessed that the correspondence was too harsh for him to support any longer; but, he added, "_if we must part, let us part like friends_." I am certain, from what Charles reported to me, that Mr.L.and I think Mr.R.[Rees] are hurt by this sudden disunion.
Recollect how serious every dispute becomes upon paper, when a man writes a thousand asperities merely to show or support his superior ability.

Things that would not have been spoken, or perhaps even thought of in conversation, are stated and horribly magnified _upon paper_.
Consider how many disputes have arisen in the world, in which both parties were so violent in what they believed to be the support of truth, and which to the public, and indeed to themselves a few years afterwards, appeared unwise, because the occasion or cause of it was not worth contending about.

Consider that you are, all of you, men who can depend upon each other's probity and honour, and where these essentials are not wanting, surely in mere matters of business the rest may be palliated by mutual bearance and forbearance.

Besides, you are so connected by various publications, your common property, and some of them such as will remain so until the termination of your lives, that you cannot effect an entire disunion, and must therefore be subject to eternal vexations and regrets which will embitter every transaction and settlement between you.
You know, moreover, that it is one of the misfortunes of our nature, that disputes are always the most bitter in proportion to former intimacy.