Dear Sir

I am not quite sure that You have received my last letter in which I informed You, that I have received the Revise sheets, and some days afterwards, the clean sheets.— I asked Your opinion as to the propiety of adding at the end of the Book, on separate Plates, all the species and varieties of animals You mention in Your work, taken from Brehm’s Thierleben, all the casts of woodcuts from this work beeing in my possesion.—² I may inform You that at least I send yesterday the bear You have so kindly accepted and probably in two weeks You will receive it.³

The casts from the woodcuts of Your work arrived some five days ago,⁴ they are made very well, so that I have now only one very impatient desire to receive some more sheets of your work.— As the casts are all in my possetion, be so kind, my Dear Sir, if only possible, to send me revise sheets without awaiting clean ones. Your kindness spoilt me, and so I am growing importunous and wishing for more.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | W. Kowalewsky

P.S. If you put the revise sheets in ordinary letter-covers and send them without prepaying it will be the safest and shortest way to forward them.—