To the BARON DE BOOK-WORMS, Vermoulen Lodge.
From the Baron de Book-Worms to A. Sophte Soper, Esq.
DEAB SIR,—Thanks. I quite appreciate your appreciation. My terms for an article in a Magazine, are twenty guineas the first hour, ten guineas the second, and so on. For dinner-table anecdotes, the property in which once made public is lost for ever to the originator, special terms. As to photographs, I will sign every copy, and take twopence on every copy. I'm a little pressed for time now, so if you can manage it, we will defer the visit for a week or two, and then I'm your man.
Yours truly,
BARON DE BOOK-WORMS.
Mr. A. Sophte Soper to the Baron de Book-Worms.
MY DEAR BARON,—I'm afraid I didn't quite make myself understood. I did not ask you to write the article, being commissioned by the firm to do it myself. The photographs will not be sold apart from the Magazine. Awaiting your favourable response,—
I am, Sir, Yours,
A. SOPHTE SOPER.