Here is a photograph from the bust. How would it do to heliotype it (reducing it to half the present size), & make a frontispiece of it for Huck Finn, with

Mark Twain

from the bust by Karl Gerhardt

printed under it.

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Would the whole thing (binding into the book included), cost more than 2 cents? Otherwise we couldn’t afford it. And could we delay the canvassing copies & put it in them? I suppose it would help sell the book.

If you think well of the idea, you might write the heliotype people & ask their terms for 3 20,000 copies (and as many more as we may in future require,) mounted & ready for binding.

If the terms were favorable you’d have to go to Boston & give minute directions & draw a contract requiring delivery of the things on or before a certain date, with penalty for failure.