Autograph Letter Signed ('W Maccall') [to the publishers W. S. Sonnenschein & Co.].

4to, 1 page and 12mo, 2 pp (single 4to leaf, folded as to give two 12mo pp on one side). Thirty-seven lines of text. Maccall is 'willing to accept any proposal which is reasonable and just' concerning his 'Christian Legends' (published by Sonnenschein in 1882), and also 'to make sacrifices for the sake of obliging [...] As the one manuscript is about twice the length of the other - I speak from memory, - it might honestly claim better remuneration'. 'I should not like in my dealings with you to take the attitude of a hard bargainmaker: - but I should not wish the "Christmas Legends" to disappear from the scene altogether as it was from a sympathetic interest in the subject quite as much as with a view to profit that I was induced to translate the book'.