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if his advice had been followed
the work would not have been
completed in two years and at
a cost of $50.000

He wanted me to go to England
to get it executed as he did
not believe it could be done well
enough in America, but the
Governor wanted the whole work
done in his own country where
the experiments had been made.
Mr Stanford wishes copies
presented to His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, Profs [Tyndal?]
Huxley, Marcy of Paris, and
Massanet the artist.

I wish you would have the
copy for the Prince of Wales bound
specially as a specimen of the
best American binding.

I wish you to send me a set

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San Francisco Apt 10A/St

Jos. R. Osgood & Co

Dear Sir: I tel-
egraphed to you today at the
request of Gov Stanford when I
told him of what had been done
in the matter of the English City
eight of the [nine] in motion. I
was satisfied myself that the
City right in my name was
[may] and the ever should have
been corrected and could not be
corrected by commiting another.

The proprietorship is not in me
but in Gov. Stanford alone and
it should appear so in th
e book. In a suit at law this
may give rise to unpleasant
complications.

With regard to the claims
of Maybridge that the illustration

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if his advice had been followed the work would not have been completed in two years and at a cost of $50.000

He wanted me to go to England to get it executed as he did not believe it could be done well enough in America, but the Governorwanted the whole work done in his own country where the experiments had been made. Mr Stanford wishes copies presented to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, [Profs?] [Tyndal?] Huxley, Marcy of Paris, and Massanet the artist.

I wish you would have the copy for the Prince of Wales bound specially as a specimen of the best American binding.

I wish you to send me a set

[right side]

San Francisco Apt 10A/St

Jos. R. Osgood & Co

Dear Sir: I telegraphed to you today at the request of Gov Stanford when I told him of what had been done in the matter of the English City eight of the [nine] in motion. I was satisfied myself that the City right in my name was [may] and the ever should have been corrected and could not be corrected by commiting another.

The proprietorship is not in me but in Gov. Stanford alone and it should appear so in the book. In a suit at law this may give rise to unpleasant complications.

With regard to the claims of Maybridge that the illustration