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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS PUBLISHERS 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE BETWEEN 2IST AND 22ND STREETS NEW-YORK June 1,1911. My dear
Mr. Muir: I intended to write yesterday about the manuscript but could not get around to it. My morning of Decoration Day
was given to it and it added very much to the pleasure of the holiday. We should be delighted to publish it for you and if
properly issued with an inviting title, I should think it would prove a decided success. Some such title as My Boyhood on
the Frontier would be a good one. I suppose you hope to continue the autobiography at some time but in that case another title
could be selected for the next volume. There is always an objection to the numbering of volumes (like Volume I 05031 and
Volume II) unless they appear simultaneously. We do not often quote terms in competition, thinking that an author should
select his publisher on more general grounds than a slight difference in royalty, but I fear you may be under obligations
to allow other publishers to read the manuscript, so I suppose we must now submit to ordeal, though I should much prefer to
have you offer terms to us or discuss with you what would be suitable terms, without having the book placed in competition.
Our own proposal would be to pay you a royalty of fifteen per cent, on the retail price, increasing to twenty after the sale
of three thousand copies in America. If you wish any more information or if there is anything that I can properly do to make
our proposal or services more acceptable to in margin: Scribner on Auto.