To Mr. Borrow.

'After much consultation with the compositor, I have come to the
following result concerning the Mandchou business about which you
consulted me. If the work be printed on as thin paper as that of
the original, it can only be printed on one side. Now supposing
that the size is to be folio like that of the original, two sides
will make a sheet, and the price of composition will be 26 roubles,
20 copecks - that is to say; 12R. to the compositor, wages 2R.
50c., percentage to the printing office 11R. 60c., making 26R. 20c.
The printing of 1000 on one side 2R. 50c., percentage 2R., making
4R. 50c. Thus for composition and printing 30R. 60c. for 1000; for
2000, 35R. 10c.; for 3000, 39R. 60c. -

Your very obedient servant,
KORLER.'


In the meantime I had become acquainted with two German printers,
Schultz and Beneze, who being young men and just entered into
business are very eager to obtain the printing of a work of such
importance, which they hope will serve to bring them into notice,
as well as being advantageous to them in a pecuniary view. The
difference, as to the expense of printing, in the estimate made by
these gentlemen and that of the University Press, will doubtless as
much surprise you, as it did me. Here it follows:


'In respect to the printing of the New Testament in the Manchou
language, the undersigned oblige themselves to undertake the