I want to try that Artotype experiment. Let them do Jean for me. If 50 copies are cheaper than 100, take the 50—if not, take the 100.

Don’t ask me what design to use in brass—use any you want to—only, rush it through.

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boxed in upper margin: Jan. 12 1 th

Yes, I would wait a little & let Page reduce the terms if he will. (I am convinced that that machine can be made perfect & thoroughly satisfactory— so we will hang along, & not drop it.)

There is a suspicious difference between Bliss’s last check & this one. Yes, tell me your idea of getting book-estimates in N. Y. is sound. You r Run up here, whenever you are ready, & make a search here & at Perkins’s, for all the documents A. & G. will need. Meantime, order Bliss to send you cloth copies of my books & tell him to charge them to me. That will set him to suspecting something’s brewing—but we shan’t mind that.

I’ve found here in the house, great big fraudulent regular scrap-books of Slote’s, made years ago, under a double patent—& he doubtless paid no royalty to me. My name is not mentioned on them.