New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-22

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eIslly do the right hing. | believed him AMI acted
onihai belief but the discovery OF your conduct re-
spectig ,be extracts from my journal contributed q
vour magazine made me r.er.t having any dealings
with You. There were tlreo articles n..sing =
rar,s For popular interest and orignA ~ yoa ad-
II ited they were equa 20 anything received; snd in
payirg me for them you gave expressly d under
stand that az g page receIN 81 The in proe. Pre-
Stunning N nv guoTance OF the subject OF literary
penssiion y"u proposed 20 deduct number of pages
equal 10 the spaces occupied by the cuts. To this
ss,eutci II such tbeclstop. though the drawings
cost ne as | told you, ten uh,s more man the text
You Cil not deduct them, but You piiG me- as SUD-
querty learned and from Mr. Losing, TOO, esf tGJ
Prioe thercby Withholding from me s1me Wv NoT
shall forget your smi'e OF IN iltatlon "Hen
iaued the matter 90 youss Il Yum success N over
reaching a smart thir =, aud TIE achievement
oue 20 be proud ~ | know not the uatnrc o! the
rtmmlscevce> most pleasing 10 Won, bnt II they ale
derived from scis Ike tins I cav, yYu ,hcm not.
NJ Your snggesii' n, not mite, ana hosting CUT tho
IDEA Hat should make solie,lu. handsome by the
operation You proposed TO pub ia ny journal % an
octave volume. | cohseuied lou have pnbishedt,
put the accumulated profits for ,so years in your
pocket; snd, without paying me one cent, have rem
dered an account in which ys' make me your debtor
for S79 ~.
Nor 30 you stop here. Yon cause yonr employees,
Lcssire y Bautt, ~ sue me for $50 Tor engraving
wood cuts i,r the book, though yon wei know 1
ordered uoue-tha. | had nothing 10 do with thcm--
and that when YOU AZ frs: asked me, IN hal,-jokhg
manner, 20 or'er some a, my cost; saying, you
Often said, that was rich gh aud did NC, want "a
~ that would not give as much a. % ceRts toward
cuts anything else.
AT the same time told You sha, had some thirty
cuts prepared seven eight years beturs when |
thought Of publishing the work IA self and that yon
couli have the use OF them, yon already had had
the Use Of a few for the magazine thai | wanted No
more, lr in my opinion they were sufficient, a. they
contained 800 distinct figures, but that, whether you
thought SO Or not under no circumstances would lie
responsible for shilling.
NON maid me between two and three hundred dollars
for 81 pages in the magazine, willie for go pages n
the ho, YOU bring me- IN your debtor. For heavens
sake was enough 10 take from me, without COM
pen aton the fruit of year travel and OF travelling
expenses o say nothing OF several visits nom WASH
Ing ton to and the volume through the press Under
what impulse have yod been led 20 charge ne FOR cuts
which never oriered and did not want, and this after
realizing some 81 1000 on the sale OF my book
Were you Influenced by my readiness to reposc con-
idence in you from LOSING report or by per-
suason thnt had become believer ia your banter
that ought not To make money cut of the book, AMI
be satisfied with my name IN tue uue-page II you
act ON this priI cipe whenever ncSpereuco in literary
merchandising suggests - application, why stop
where you do Why not charge me with money paid
to your stereotypers printers and binders, a. well As
to your eDgraNers
/ NAV be mistaken, bnt remember no act charged
upon rapacous publishers of the last century, whom
the writers of England have consigned TO perpetual
uiany, that compare with this attempt Of yours
aud have 10 learn that any respectable American
publisher has made approach 70 Il. do not meas
IRE responsibility by success ia trade nor intcgu,y
aud honor by religious pretenslons. | have even
doubts of your having equaed IT, before or since TINS
case of mine What recent author of travels have
YOU thus treated Yea have, however. done tor one
Of them what was probably never done before. You
have actually taken my illustrations, and at least one
OF the original blocks had prepared for my journal,
and unblushingly used them, without asking my
sent to illustrate Mr.. Holtons volume On Ncw.Grana-
da which y0u published soon after mine. For what
other works they have or have not been used know
not.
Your charging me full instead of the cost prices for
the few copies have had IL in character with the
other features of the account rendered.
Nou dee net 300 copies sent To editors. A. ieheNe
did not see two dozen notices ~ your scrap book ut
such cole ctions will thank you to iurnsh me with
the names and addresses OF those 300 gentlemen.
A. for your deducng copyr gbt on the nrst thousand
sold wish YOU 10 understand that agree 10 such
thing. Iexpect full and liberal return as the GUS
tom of respectable publishers justies under the cir
cumstances OF the case. This is what you promised
me- ard hold you to your promise. IL ~ true that
after the work begun You mentioned at various
times 10 per ceLtl0 per cent after the first thousand
10 per cent after 900 sud and I'D per cent after
$500 were disposed of. This ! attributed for some
time TO your Indulgence in dry humor, but yoar con-
tnuing to ring these changes on the subject OF my
compensation at length convlned me OF your purpos"
ioI WIRE Icing my P,se IN Stsf loJ hHe San
be carried out. Inc account you have sent me gives
the conclusion You arrived at.
The whole affair is small aud contemptble c0nsid-
ering the wealth of your house, and the rfng addi
ton which the profits OF any single volume can make
to it, but wealth refined the souls of the sori1
and suppose there will ever be those who, for the
Joy set before them in the shape of gain despse the
shame of dishonOraby acquiring II.
A. for Mr.. Lossng-wlth whom have been on
terms OF friendship for several years, who knows my
caution in mourning obligations, ana who an sure,
believes me incapable OF avoiding the payment OF any
Just debt caim-hc has his private library and
editorial room in your establishment, and justly
ceives from yon large yearly income for writing and
engraving. lie is well known Ia be Of constitution
which mesmorisis describe as very impressibe,
while your organization, Mr.. Fletcher Harper, Is the
very reverse. On this ground only can account for
one who has virtue to be ashamed Of a dshOnorable
act conseLtng, after eighteen months dclbera-
ton to be used as an Instrument Tor prosecuting me
for your benefit and Ia tine face OF his knowledge OF
all Il circumstances Of the ease. admit Che DELI
cacy of his position and the desrbeness % not haz
ardng his professional connection with YOU but i
hopco, ana had rig h to hope better things ot hm,
and believe however successful he may be IN sup
pro ssing for the present the higher impulses OF his
nature and let tie result of the law suits BE- what II
may, he never can recall his share in the business
without pain.
As il has always been my conviction that two
honestly disposed parties need ever appeal to the Law
to Obtain their rights off red eighteen months ago,
10 Mr. Losing to leave the question between Losing
and Bantt and me 10 any conscientious and dsinter-
estod gentleman. III Z declined; and kindred prOpo-
s.lon was recently made 70 bis lawyer with the same
result. | shall therefore, meet You IA a court o. law
with the conviction OF having suffered gross wrong at
your hands not you NJ minetur you have got every
hing and nothng-and at the bar of public opinion,
before which laseG never permanently PTsyassT
Tie following ac' cunt is referred to in the above
letter:
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