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Madam, I shall have much pleasure in undertaking the publication of your new tale 'The Clever Woman of the Family' either on commission or otherwise. The terms for publishing on commission are I believe uniform among publishers. The whole of the publication expenses, such as printing, paper, binding, and advertsing are charged to the author; and a commission of 10 per cent on the sale is charged by the publisher when he renders his accounts. This ... continue reading
Sir,
I am obliged for your letter of the 9th. The MS of the Clever Woman of the Family is not sufficiently forward for the calculations for printing to be made yet. I have however a tale called 'the Trial' which has been coming out in the Monthly Packet, where it will be completed in the early spring when I should wish to bring it out, but it ought to be uniform with the 'Daisy Chain' ... continue reading
Sir, I have now heard from Messrs Longman, so that I can proceed in the matter on which I wrote to you some weeks since.
I should be obliged if you would let me know whether you would undertake my works hitherto in Messrs Parker’s hands, namely
the stock and stereotypes being transferred to you. All these have been hitherto on commission, ... continue reading
Dear Miss Yonge I am much obliged to you for so kindly undertaking the new work I hope when you are once in it you will find it not less pleasant than the others.
I propose paying you the same for that as I will for the Worthies. The amounts which will be due to you next half year & part or the whole we can pay you any time after August 1. are:-
Pupils £200 for copyright
Dear Mr Freeman , I waited to thank you for your kind note to see if there was any chance of so getting rid of the old edition of History of Christian Names, as to make it reasonable to put an abridgment much corrected in hand - But unluckily the book was printed in the anarchy of the J W Parker establishment and the edition was too large, so that I do not know how to ... continue reading