Malden,Mass.,May 25,1905 
Dear Mr.Collins, 
I am very much obliged to you for the trouble you have 
taken about the Holden books. I had made out a rough list before your 
letter came,but shall change a few of the figures. On one book I neglected 
to ask your judgement; Sul livant's leones Muscorum; In Weigel I find this 
priced at 14Q marks; I asked Femald in a note what they held it at at 
Cambridge,but his price was so much less than Weigel's,that it seems to 
me he must have meant the book without the supplement,or the supplement 
without the book. My plan with the list has been to put books of some 
importance about 20 per cent below Weigel's pricesjwhich would make this 
about 30.00,at which I set it. I may be wrong,however,in which case 
I can correct it better than if I put it too low at first. 
I enclose a copy of the list;of there is anything you want,or that 
that the University wants,I shall be glad to mark it off for you;I shall 
probably be able to send the books in about a week. The Austin paper I 
will have sent with the first books that go out;you shall have the first 
chance at it. Lesquereux & James I set at 4*00;if nobody wants it at that, 
your bid will have the next chance. 
It does not pay to print a catalogue of this kind,and it is quite a 
job to write copies;so when you are through with this,will you kindly 
return it. 
It is really returning evil for good,after what you have done, to ask 
anything more of youjbut I will venture it. The last of the older members 
of my family passed away last winter;my aunt, Mrs.Shipley;you may remember 
meeting her at Foxcroft,at the Jossetyn meeting. The family,in the earlier 
half of the last century,were all good baptists,and at the same time 
reading people;they accumulated quitfc a library of religious works,which 
now are of little or no actual value;still,such things have a use in the 
