
          Bangor April 6th 1848

My dear Sir

Yours of the 3rd ult. [ultimate] was received
this morning and I now hasten to answer.

Dr. Gray expressed the same surprise as yourself at
the remarkable cheapness of my work. I will now
make a brief statement of the expenses attending its
publication and the preparation of the volumes.

Promissing that one thousand sheets will complete
a single copy, which (considering the size of the
smaller plants) will do it quite well, I can estimate
the cost for 25 copies pretty correctly.

50 reams paper contain 960 sheets, thus requiring
exactly (with the waste) 2 reams & 2 quires, which at 6½
dollars, amount to $13.67 for the paper for one copy.
I can then have them printed at a price varing [varying]
from 50 cts [cents] to 75 cts per sheet, and have 25 or 50
impressions for the same price. Allowing this to be
75 cts, (which is large) the cost for [crossed out: the] printing the
complete [added: work] will be $750.00.

The covers cost me $40.00 per hundred (in
cloth), the specimen you have with a morocco
back, can be afforded at $65.00 per hundred, but
all cloth is much prettier and equally as durable.

The expense of binding is about 37 cts per volume,
which added to 40 cts for the case is 77 cts per
volume. We then have the following statement,

        