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know anything of the sale of the
book except from you and that
has not been much. I expected
a reporta report from you on
the 1st of June according to the
agreement made with Mr osgood
as the book was announced for sale in
the papers on the 28th of February.
So far as responsibility is concerned
for the sale of the book, I am
quite sure it cannot be placed
on me so far as it has not been
placed on the market in California.
The terms on which it was placed
in your hands for sale were gone
over. I received your letter accom-
panied with Bancroft's and answered
it sending the answer to Gov. Stanford
for his approval with a request to
forward it to you. It seemed too
late in the day to advance the
price of the book and as to giving

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Mr Bancroft the exclusive sale I
did not approve and it seemed a
great imposition to Mr Stanford to
reduce the price to him, but as
the case now stands on your
statement of the slow sales, and
the chief expense of a second
edition being incurred I would
advise that the reduction which
you recommend in your last letter be made to $6.00.
I was in-
formed when in San Francisco that
Gov Stanford had rec'd two boxes of
books to be distributed as presents.
The volume intended for the Prince
of Wales was to have been accomp-
anied with a note. As the Governor
has now returned to California I
will write him about it and
send you the note of [recommendation]

Truly Yours

J D B Stillman