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under date April 19, to the vestry of Grace church, and of Trinity church, 

 and to the firm of Alexander Stewart &. Co., for plates of Grace church. 

 Trinity church, and Stewart's new marble store, I have to state that the 

 Grace church vestry have liberally agreed to pay one hundred dollars for 

 a plate, of iheir church, on the terms of our resolution. The Trinity 

 vestry have not yet come to a final decision. Mr. Stewart was not seen, 

 though twice called on ; but one of his partners informed Mr. Renwick that 

 they would probably furnish an engraving of their building, as it is to be 

 ultimately completed. 



By the terms of our resolution, the engraving of Grace church must be 

 executed on steel or copper ; and as it is a much less elaborate engraving 

 than that of the Smithsonian building, Mr. Drayton thinks we can have 

 it executed on steel for a hundred dollars. 



Even if we decide to let all the other illustrations be cut on wood, it will, 

 I think, be impossible to execute those already embraced in our resolu- 

 tions, (see page 120,) and such as are indispensable to a due explanation of 

 the text to the general reader, for the sum of $1,UU0, to which the appro- 

 priation is at present limited. Nor do I believe that the treatise itself, in- 

 cluding the appendix, can be advantap-eously condensed into a hundred 

 and fifty pages of letter-press, as by the agreement with Wiley & Put- 

 nam (page 115) it was stipulated it should. I deemed it proper then to 

 seek to obtain from these publishers a conditional supplement to that agree- 

 ment, based on the contingency that the Board of Regents might vote an 

 additional appropriation. They agreed to the proposal I made to them, 

 and signed the following 



Supj)lement to the agreement of April 3, 1847. 



Whereas, by an agreement made the third day of April, 1847, between 

 Wiley &. Putnam, publishers of New York, and Robert Dale Owen, on 

 behalf of the building committee of the Smithsonian Institution, re- 

 gardino^ the publication of a treatise, to be entitled " Hints on Public 

 Architecture," it was stipulated that the illustrations of the said treatise 

 (that is to say, its engravings and wood-cuts) should cost not less than 

 one thousand dollars, and that the number of pages of said treatise should 

 not exceed one hundred and fifty pages of letterpress : Now, therefore, 

 it is further agreed, that in case the said building committee should see fit 

 to incre'ase the value of the said illustrations, then the said Wiley & 

 Putnam agree that the number of pages of letter-press may be propor- 

 tionably increased ; as, if five hundred dollars additional be expended for 

 the illustrations, then one half of one hundred and fifty pages — say seventy- 

 five pages— may be added to the letter-press ; and so of any larger or 

 smaller sum : Provided, hoioever, that the entire number of pages of letter- 

 press shall not, in any case, exceed two hundred and fifty. 



Witness our hands and seals this 22d of November, 1847. 



WILEY & PUTNAM, [l. s ] 



In presence of Thos. B. Graves, 

 as to W^iley tfc Putnam. 



ROBERT DALE OWEN, 



on behalf of the Building CommUtee 



of the Smithsonian Institution. 



