O, dear me! never will I have anything to do with a business matter again as long as I live. I made Bliss cable the price of the cuts, purposely that Chatto might cable back & stop the manufacture if dissatisfied. Now at this late day he writes & complains of the price.

Moreover, he talks about an “understanding” had with me that the cuts should cost be at about cost of casting them. I have no other understanding about other people’s affairs. I cannot dictate to Mr. Bliss what he shall charge for his own cuts. I Mr. Chatto sent a distinct order for those cuts, & he knew what they were to cost the very day they went into the electrotyper’s hands. He could have stopped the thing if he had wanted to. Bliss says that the engravings originally cost him (with artists’ work,) a large sum of money, & he does not see why he should give them to anybody at cost of casting.

I However, it seems to me I am writing a dam sight of letters on other folks’s business—so I’ll stop, & get a fan.