From Charles Layton   25 November 1869

Dear Sir

Your favour of yesterday is received—¹ If the type is still standing of new Editn Origin Species, Mess^rs Appletons would be glad if you would supply them with a set of Stereotype Plates, there would be such a great saving in cost, as composition is the heaviest item in making books, and but for this your later Editions would have been republished in America—²

The demand in America for books of this class is not nearly so great as in England and the Continent of Europe, but Mess^rs Appletons wish now to reproduce your book, and pay copyright on all copies sold and of course would pay for Stereotype Plates, but if it is impossible to have plates I have no doubt they will incur the extra expense and have it set up in New York, only in that case perhaps you could let them have a copy in advance to print from as I was told yesterday in Paternoster Row the new Editn was not yet ready—³

With regard to the new book whenever it is ready I suppose you would be able to let them have Stereo Plates, as Casts could be taken as the book is composed in London, and I shall be glad, if there is yet time to have the same done with New Editn Origin of Species—⁴

Besides not having the same large number of buyers for good Scientific Books in America as here, the New York Publishers cannot get the same high prices as M^r Murray and Mess^rs Longmans in London

Yours Respectfully | Charles Layton | Agent D. Appleton & Co