When Cooper permitted "Imagination" and "Heart" to be reprinted in 1841, he was again conferring a favor on a publisher. Towards the close of 1840 George Roberts, publisher and proprietor of the _Boston Notion_, subtitled without exaggeration "The Mammoth Sheet of the World," sent Cooper a circular letter in the hand of a clerk to request a short contribution suitable for his new publication, _Roberts' Semi-Monthly Magazine_. Normally, Cooper refused all such requests: but he was under the erroneous impression that Roberts had forwarded to him some Danish translations of his works which Longfellow had sent to America for him a few years before. Remembering these early stories, he replied to Roberts on 2 January 1841: "Some fifteen or twenty years since my publisher became embarrassed, and I wrote two short tales to aid him. He printed them, under the title of _Tales for Fifteen_, by Jane Morgan. One of these stories, rather a feeble one I fear, was called Heart--the other Imagination. This tale was written one rainy day, half asleep and half awake, but I retain rather a favorable impression of it. If you can find a copy of the book, you might think Imagination worth reprinting, and I suppose there can _now_ be no objection to it. It would have the freshness of novelty, and would be American enough, Heaven knows. It would fill three or four of your columns." Cooper owned no copy of _Tales for Fifteen_; but the resourceful publisher found a copy in New York, and "Imagination" filled almost the whole of the front page (approximately 60 by 34-1/2 inches) of the _Boston Notion_ on 30 January 1841. It was reprinted in what was apparently a second edition of _Roberts' Semi-Monthly Magazine_ for 1 and 15 February 1841 and in London in William Hazlitt's _Romanticist and Novelist's Library_. A subsequent request brought permission for the reprinting of "Heart," which appeared in the _Boston Notion_ for 13 and 20 March 1841 and in _Roberts' Semi-Monthly Magazine_ for 1 and 15 April 1841. Roberts expressed his gratitude by defending Cooper in his paper from the charge of aristocratic bias which some New York journalists had brought against _Home As Found_. Doubtless the publisher would have been pleased to find other American writers sufficiently democratic to provide free copy.