HOW’S THIS?
We would respectfully call the attention of the Bay State Oologist to the following:
Columbus, O., Nov. 17, 1888.
Webster & Mead,
Gentlemen:— * * * * *
* * I have —— copies left of the present edition (a copy of which I send you by to-day’s mail) which you may have at —— per cent off. * * *
Oliver Davie.
March 8, 1888.
Webster & Mead,
Gentlemen:— * * * *
I note what Mr. Foote says in regard to my “Nests and Eggs.” When I sent you the —— copies they were all I had in stock—at least I thought so, for it was all I could find in the closet where I kept them. In turning over a large number of ornithological books for reference, I found a package of eight copies, one of which I sent Mr. Foote and quoted prices, but he did not take them and I sent them to Mr. Lattin who was entirely out of them and wanted them and 500 more if he could get them at once. Mr. Foote has not purchased a single copy of the work from me. I now am entirely out until the third edition appears. I have notified Mr. Foote to that effect. * * *
Yours truly, Oliver Davie.
Mr. Foote’s article, which you have probably all seen, was decidedly ungentlemanly, to say the least.