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Telegraphic address: "Moralitas, London." Telephone: 2701 City.

National Council of Public Morals.

President, 1911-12: The Bishop of Durham, D.D.

Chairman: The Archdeacon of London, D.D.

Vice Chairman: The Rev. F. B. Meyer, B.A.

Director and Secretary: Rev. James Marchant.³

Holborn Hall,

[London] W.C.

15th June, 1911.

Dr. A. Russel Wallace, O.M., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S,

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne, DORSET.

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged by your letter of this morning. With reference to the time, I find that the MS. would not be required until November. With reference to the right of republication and expansion, I think we should be quite agreeable to that if you would give Messrs. Cassell & Co. the option of publishing your volume.⁴ This raises the question of remuneration. The pamphlets are being issued at the popular price of 6d., which means that they are sold to the trade for 3d., and out of that has to come printing, advertisements, and expenses of publishing and of writing, so that we have to sell 5,000 copies of the pamphlet before clearing the actual initial expenses. Would you be willing to make your Tract say 10,000 to 12,000 words, and what would be the lowest price you could accept for the MS.? The amount I named in my previous letter is that offered to the other writers. I should be much obliged by your kind early response.

Yours faithfully, | James Marchant⁵ [signature]