you.

I remain, Rev. and dear Sir, most sincerely yours,

G. BORROW.

To the Rev. J. Jowett

(_Endorsed_: recd, May 16th, 1834)
GALERNOY ULITZA, ST. PETERSBURG,
15_th_ _April_ (old style) 1834.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--Upon the receipt of your letter of the [21st] ult.
[date omitted], I lost no time in endeavouring to obtain the necessary
information upon the points to which you directed my attention; and I
have some hope that what I am about to communicate will not be altogether
unsatisfactory; but I must first of all state that it was not acquired in
a day, and that I have been obliged to go to many people and many places,
which will account for my not having sooner returned an answer.

First, respecting the most important point, the expense of printing the
New Testament in Mandchou. I was quite terrified at the enormous sums
which some of the printers to whom I made application required for the
work. At length our friend Dr. Schmidt recommended me to the University
Press, and I having spoken to the directors of the establishment, they
sent me in the course of a week an estimate which neither Dr. Schmidt nor
myself considered to be unreasonable, and of this estimate I here subjoin
a translation:

To Mr. Borrow.

'After much consultation with the compositor, I have come to the
following result concerning the Mandchou business about which you
consulted me. If the work be printed on as thin paper as that of the
original, it can only be printed on one side. Now supposing that the
size is to be folio like that of the original, two sides will make a
sheet, and the price of composition will be 26 roubles, 20
copecks--that is to say; 12R. to the compositor, wages 2R. 50c.,
percentage to the printing office 11R. 60c., making 26R. 20c. The
printing of 1000 on one side 2R. 50c., percentage 2R., making 4R.
50c. Thus for composition and printing 30R. 60c. for 1000; for 2000,
35R. 10c.; for 3000, 39R. 60c.--

Your very obedient servant,

KORLER.'

In the meantime I had become acquainted with two German printers, Schultz
and Beneze, who being young men and just entered into business are very
eager to obtain the printing of a work of such importance, which they
hope wil