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The Italian Castanhedath – 5 – 6
& 7th books – I had been obliged to purchase a duplicate for the sake of the preceding volume with the three
first books, & this was the reason why yours was returned. My own copy is a remarkably fine one, curiously half bound in
xx embossed vellum with the date 1580 on the covers, & the name of some former possessor (a German), xxxx
stamped in gold letters. Still I want the three last books of Castanheda. Of the first I have as you know the modern edition in two
vol.th century).xxxxx cannot be worth purchasing even at half its preposterous price, – or half the half, – for the original may be had any
day at Lisbon for a quartinho. We still want three books.
Edith desires me to thank my
Aunt for her offer, which is very gladly accepted. – The christening will take place as soon as xx <Edith> can be present at it. she is going on as well as we could wish, & the
young Katharine also.
The Registerx very handsome note
within the cover to express his “respect for Mr S’s superior talents & honourable principles.”
th
I have a letter this evening from Ballantyne in which he tells
me that the Proprietors of the Register, attributing much of its success to me, offer me 1/12 share in it. The outlay on each twelfth
has been £209 – the profit for this vol. £80 – nearly 40 per cent, to be paid immediately by bills at a year. The outlay remains to go
on with the succeeding volumes, as stock, & when any proprietor chuses to retire his share is purchased by the remaining partners
at the original £209. – Nature never meant me to have anything to do with financial accounts, either of my own or the publics. I see
plainly enough that the interest is not quite so great as is here represented, – but it is also true that the sale of a second edition
would make it much greater. xx I have £150 in Ballantyne hands, – it
will put me to my shifts to do without it for the next six months, but so I can shift, – xxxxx <it> seems an
opportunity of advantage which ought not to be let slip. This may perhaps make me postpone my intended visit to London till
spring March or April next, – it will leave me aground & there I must remain till spring-tide.
The Blackburnes
I wish much for the Santuario Marianno,