From Thomas Longman   4 August 1857

Dear Sir

I am much obliged by your letter of the 2 ^nd on the subject of your volume in the Cabinet Cyclopedia.

The candid opinion you express would make it very desirable that the book should not be reprinted in its present form, and I shall be very much obliged by your informing me whether it would be agreeable to you to revise the work & on what terms.

The Cabinet Cyclopedia property has come into our hands more by the necessities of the case, than by choice, and encumbered with a very heavy debt. I mention this to explain to what may have appeared to you as unwillingness on our part to incur additional charges.

I remain, | Dear Sir, | very faithfully yours | Thomas Longman