Dear Sir

The same day when my lamentable letter was send to You I received the 5 proof sheets You had the goodness to send me on the 2 May. But still I have been patient enough and waited ten long days after the receipt of Your letter, it was impossible for me to bear this longer and so I wrote You my letter (even registered it) which You no doubt received yesterday.¹

I thank You dear Sir most cordially for all the kindness You show to me, believe me I shall always remember it.

For the future I shall beg You to put the sheets in letter covers and send them on my adress without prepaying (non affranchie) it is the safest way,— prepaid letters are often lost but unprepaid always reach in Russia their destination

Believe me | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | W. Kowalewsky

May 3/15 1867.²

P.S. I am also the editor of the large and beautiful work of Brehm Thierleben, I translated the two big volumes myself and am now translating the III vol. Birds, as You certainly are aware in this work nearly all the varieties of Dogs & Cats etc you mention in Your work are represented by very good & true woodcuts, as I have the tsereotypes of Brehm’s work, I think to print them on separate sheets & put them at the end of the volume. So the reader will have the woodcuts of all the varieties & species You mention in Your work, and the striking facts You mention in your book will be much better understood and appreciated, I dont think that such a Plan can be objected to, because, as the woodcuts shall be printed separately from the text, every one is at liberty if wishing to conserve the book in the form of the original, has only to tear the additional sheets and to trow them away. I shoul like very much Your opinion on the subject, but in case You have not seen the work I mention, I pray You to do so.— it is: Brehm Illustrirtes Thierleben 1863–1868.³