Take good care of the enclosed photograph; don’t let it get injured, as I have no duplicate. Ask Mr. Bierstadt where to find this artotype company; then go & see if they can reproduce this picture of Jean (without the or negative to do it from); & what they will charge me for a hundred copies. Osgood says he will heliotype a hundred for me at 5 cents apiece, if I will send the negative. Well, as our photograph bill reaches $80 a year, I should simply meet with a refusal if I tried to buy or borrow the negative. If the artotype company can reproduce without the original negative, at a cheap rate, I shall want them to duplicate several more of our nega photos for us. Don’t lost lose the P. O. Artotype—I want it back.

Type-founders keep on hand a variety of cuts suitable for mercantile advertisements in country newspapers, which they duplicate & sell at low rates. Why should not you do likewise? Your artists could get up a list of such designs which would be more artistic & striking than the sterile inventions of the type-founders; & 25 or 50 of them, printed on a circular might bring you a lot of trade which would be nine-tenths f profit. Good way for the artists to put in idle time.