LAURENCE MINOT, 
39 Court STREET, 
BOSTON. Dec. 27, 1902, 
Mr. William Brewster, 
145 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Mr. Brewster:- 
I saw my brother Charles Thursday and found out exactly what 
his views were about the third edition of Land and Game Birds of New 
England. In your letter to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Nov. 
24th, your suggestion as to the necessery corrections is as follows: 
"I understand,of course, that the reprint you are about to make 
will be from the sterectype plates and I should not in any case suggest 
changes that will affect the neighboring text or over or under run, 
put, if you are willing to let me substitute whole sentences (and in 
a few cases paragraphs even) in ten or a4 dogen cases in my foot notes 
or in the additions (my additions) in the anvendix, I can greatly 
improve the book by so doing." 
And in your letter of November 30th to Messre. Houghton, 
Mifflin & Co., you suggest that $100 would be a proper compensation 
for this work. 
My brother is willing that indispensable or necessary changes 
in the text or foot notes which do not over or under run should be 
made and that you should remodel your own appendix as you think best. 
He calls my attention, however, to the fact that when the last edition 
was published many changes were made in the text after your manuscript 
was out in the hands of the printer and the cost of the changes made 
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at this stage were such as to use up (and if I remember rightly to 
more than use up) our royalty from the book, To guard against the 
