LETTER: 15th April, 1834



To the Rev. J. Jowett
(ENDORSED: recd, May 16th, 1834)
GALERNOY ULITZA, ST. PETERSBURG,
15TH APRIL (old style) 1834.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR, - Upon the receipt of your letter of the [21st]
ult. [date omitted], I lost no time in endeavouring to obtain the
necessary information upon the points to which you directed my
attention; and I have some hope that what I am about to communicate
will not be altogether unsatisfactory; but I must first of all
state that it was not acquired in a day, and that I have been
obliged to go to many people and many places, which will account
for my not having sooner returned an answer.

First, respecting the most important point, the expense of printing
the New Testament in Mandchou. I was quite terrified at the
enormous sums which some of the printers to whom I made application
required for the work. At length our friend Dr. Schmidt
recommended me to the University Press, and I having spoken to the
directors of the establishment, they sent me in the course of a
week an estimate which neither Dr. Schmidt nor myself considered to
be unreasonable, and of this estimate I here subjoin a translation: