I regret more than I can express the dissatisfaction of Mrs. Eddy with the Curriculum and Xian Scientist Association pamphlets. It is so rare a thing to have a customer complain, I cannot let it rest at that – as long as I have anythingAs Written:any thing to do with types I must give satisfaction, because I know I can. Please send me the plates by bearer, and meanwhile use what pamphlets you must. Say nothing to Mrs. Eddy about the reprint till I deliver a new lot to you. For at my own expense – and it will be considerable — I will print a new lot.
At the same time, I can say that the best was done for the time possible for anybody to do. The form was put to press Wednesday late in the afternoon. 300 copies were off the press by 1/2 past 4, and because you must have them they were bound by 6 o'clock. Impossible to make a good job as you would like in so short a time. The job complete was off the press by Friday I think about 10 o'clock a.m. Friday afternoon 4000 were ready at the Bindery for delivery to you. I understood the work was wanted in a great hurry.
But please return me the plates, and I will take the time necessary to press and make a good job of the pamphlet. And, as I say, meanwhile use what you need of the unpressed pamphlet.
P. S. I enclose the invoicesEditorial Note: These invoices are not extant. made out as directed. I have allowed for the inside paper for the 500 (the covers were all printed before the change in the order came) $2.50Editorial Note: $2.50 in 1886 is the equivalent of $71.88 in 2021.. The press-work was just the same; as I should have had to run the cancels alone if I had not worked the other 12pp with it. — W. K.