WCP5156

[1]

6 May [190]4

Dear Sir

Mess^rs Geo. Routledge & Sons have offered to travel "The Wonderful Century Reader" through their educational travellers who visit all the principal Primary & Secondary Schools in the United Kingdom if we can see our way to let them purchase copies from us at half the published price (i.e. ³1/-) twenty five as twenty four = 11^d 1/2 —

With experience to clause (C) of para[graph] 2 of one experiment would you be prepared to accept a 1/2 Royalty on such scales instead of 3^d?

[2] We think it is probable that it may introduce the book to circles which it has never yet reached and that the sales may be considerably increased.

To pay a 3^d Royalty on such sales would leave us a scarcely appreciable margin of profit.

Yours truly | [illeg. signature]

D^r. Alfred Russel Wallace