I am favoured with your letter of the 8th, and as you
wish for a more explicit declaration of terms, I hereby agree to give you three
hundred pounds, British, for the copyright of your work, entitled the Wild Irish
Girl, on condition that it make three large volumes in
duodecimo. With respect to a farther consideration, I would not advise you to
look for it—in my own experience I have not had an instance,
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