| Description | 'We are in receipt of your letter of the 14th instant in which you offer to become an agent for the sale of W Herschel's Collected Papers on the terms that you will account for each copy that you sell at the published next price of £2.10.0, less 15 per cent, and an addition 5 per cent in cases where the sale is made through the trade.
On these terms the Committee of Publication are prepared to put your name on the title page as agents for sale, in the same manner as on the cover of the papers from the Philosophical Transactions [of the Royal Society].' |