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best binders in New York. Every thing about the binding is "handwork", and the vol would be considered by connoisseurs as a first-class specimen of fine binding. Our binders here say they can match it, however, so I have given them my copy to pattern after.

  It will give me great pleasure to send you a copy of "Our Famous Women", and I have ordered one bound in same style as the "Indian" now in hand, and please accept the same when you get it, with my compliments.  I will send both books to you in about ten days.
  It is highly gratifying to me to learn that you are pleased with the success of the book.  I don't know that I shall ever be able to bring the sale up to 40,000 but I would really like to do it.  It goes slow now.  I have done the best - the very best - I could with it, and spared no expense either in getting the vol up or in crowding its sale.  It has "taken the cake"  from every other "Indian" book published the past 30 or 40 years.  "Berden, the White Chief" - issued in the years when everything was booming and when it was just as easy to sell 10,000 books to 1000 now, made only 21.000; and it sold at a much less price than ours, too.  Buffalo Bill's book, issued only three years or so ago, sold about three or four thousand, though I believe if I could have had his book & been allowed to shape it, I could have made a great success of it.