Letter from Calvin Ellis Stowe to Messrs Sampson Low & Son

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line 1: Andover, Massachusetts. U.S.A.
line 2: July 14th 1856
line 3: Messrs S Low & Son
line 4: I send you to
line 5: day another parcel of copy for
line 6: Dred. It is now pretty certain
line 7: that the whole work will
line 8: not occupy more than 595
line 9: or 600 pages of this size. In
line 10: that case the first volume
line 11: ought not to be more than
line 12: 300 pages. Would it not be
line 13: best to put the whole into
line 14: one volume? On that note
line 15: just please exercise your
line 16: own tact & taste as an ex-
line 17: perienced book maker, I have
line 18: made the division in the
line 19: proof as was first contemplated
line 20: here; but we shall not adhere
line 21: to it. We shall either have fewer

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line 1: pages in the first volume,
line 2: or make but one volume
line 3: of the work.
line 4: Mrs Stowe, her sister Mrs
line 5: Perkins, and our pair of two daughters
line 6: have taken passage in the
line 7: Niagara, which sails from
line 8: Boston on the 30th inst. My
line 9: duties at the ?? detain
line 10: me longer, & I shall sail,
line 11: probably from N. York, about
line 12: the 6th of August, I hope
line 13: to be in London about the
line 14: 20th. I am anxiously looking
line 15: out for the remittance of
line 16: £200 for which we wrote.
line 17: You will see by the in-
line 18: closed that Mr Tauchnitz of
line 19: Leipzig wishes advanced sheets
line 20: for the purpose of publishing an
line 21: English edition of Dred in Germany.

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line 1: I suppose that would not
line 2: interfere at all with your edi-
line 3: tion in England. He is an
line 4: honorable, upright, generous
line 5: man, and did handsomely by
line 6: us with Uncle Tom; and we
line 7: wish him to be gratified if
line 8: possible. Can you not
line 9: send him your proofs as they
line 10: issue from the press? We
line 11: shall write today & refer
line 12: him to you.
line 13: Miss Heine of Dresden,
line 14: who has a brother in our Naval
line 15: service, is translating the book
line 16: into German, and received, for
line 17: that purpose, proof sheets
line 18: from Boston. A lady here
line 19: is translating it into French.
line 20: Please act in the ??
line 21: according to your best judgement
line 22: and accommodate Mr Tauchnitz
line 23: if you can.
line 24: Truly yours C.E.Stowe