AUTOGRAPH LETTER, signed, to his literary agent, W. M. Colles
A$4,500 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
dated Ap 30.99, headed by hand 'Wakefield Terrace Wakefield', asking about the fine points of a contract with the New York publishers Frederic A. Stokes: 'I understand the point of Messrs. Stoke communication to be thus: They can only get, from a Canadian publisher, 12 1/2 cents on each copy of The Town Traveller , & therefore feel unable to pay me as by agreement they should 15% on the Canadian published price of 50 cents. If I am right in thus understanding the matter, I hardly seem to
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