Robert J. Belford an Ernst Haeckel, Los Angeles, 14. Juni 1912
TYPEWRITER SILENCER MFRS.
(INVENTORS AND SOLE OWNERS)
June
fourtenth
Nineteen
twelve.
Ernst Haeckel
Jena, Germany
My dear Sir:
I am pleased to get your postal card, dated Jena, 31st. May 1912, but regret exceedingly that your two letters addressed to me at New York were returned by the Post Office authorities here. I have re-read to you -- having kept a copy of it -- to find that probably I am fault for not making clearer that the firm of Belford, Clarke Co. is not in existence now. I merely wished to inform you of my past experience in the publishing business when I state, my first was Belford, Clarke & Co. However, I hasten -- your card recieved but five minutes ago -- to ask you to forward to me here the letters that you got back from New York, or, should you prefer re-write any thing you desire to say in re the publication proposition of a set of your books for this country. But no doubt you have retained the returned letters, and I don’t desire that you should be toa any extra or unnessary labor.
The man that will financier the publication of your books is now in New York and he writes me every week, to know if there is any reply from you. I will write him straightaway of the contents of your postal.
I can only repeat that I feel confident that the set would prove higly profitable and what is better successful in many ways besides.
Hoping b to hear from you soon again and with kindest regards & good wishes for your health, I remain, dear Sir, hastly but
Sincerly,
Robert J. Belford
Not dictated.
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