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for adequate representation of each portion of the Empire. Our present idea is to make nine sets of twelve pictures each.
(2) The right of publication of these pictures, with the exception of lantern slides, to be granted to us in consideration of the payment of a royalty of 10 per cent. on the published price.
(3) The published price of each picture to be about one shilling or one shilling and threepence and the size of plate approximately 27 inches by 20 inches.
(4) Proofs of the colour reproductions to be submitted to your Committee for approval, and the whole work to be done in the best possible style of colour printing consistent with the price to be obtained for each picture. We are prepared to reproduce one of the paintings as a specimen if your Committee care to make this stipulation.
We understand that your artist has made further studies of Empire subjects and shall be glad to have the opportunity of using these sketches as the basis for further pictures to be added to the series at a later date.
Our plan would be to employ the artist at our expense to make such alterations in the present pictures as would be necessary for reproduction for school purposes, and possibly to engage him at a future date to provide us with South African pictures in order to make the series as comprehensive as possible.
If these preliminary arrangements meet your wishes we shall be glad to go further into the matter at an early date.
I have, &c.,
For THOMAS NELSON AND SONS,
W. E. Noall, Esq.,
Secretary,
H. C.
Visual Instruction Committee.
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The English published price is to be 2s. 6d. net each picture unframed.
5. Should any touching-up of the originals by Mr. Fisher be required, the publisher is to bear the cost of such touching-up to the sum of £25 (twenty-five pounds) on the twelve selected pictures, but any sum beyond £25 (twenty-five pounds) shall be borne by the Committee.
6.
The Committee will use their best endeavours to promote the sale of the pictures in England and the Colonies, and to secure their introduction into schools, colleges, and institutions.
W. E. Noall, Esq.,
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Secretary,
We remain, &c.,
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.
Visual Instruction Committee.
No. 112.
VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to MESSRS. THOMAS NELSON &
GENTLEMEN,
SONS.
[Answered by No. 113.]
Downing Street, 10 May, 1911.
I HAVE to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th of May,* on the subject of colonial pictures, which will be laid before my Committee at their next meeting.
any other
repro-
With regard to the reproduction of a specimen picture, it must be distinctly understood that if the result is not satisfactory to my Committee, or if for reason they do not approve of its publication, the plates, or other means of duction, are to be destroyed, and the prints are not to be published.
Should you agree to this stipulation, I should be glad if your representatives would call here at 3 o'clock on any afternoon except Saturday, to select a suitable picture.
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No. 111.
I am, &c.,
W. E. NOALL, Secretary,
Visual Instruction Committee.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
21 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
MESSES. LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. to VISUAL INSTRUCTION
COMMITTEE.
(Received 10 May, 1911.)
DEAR SIR,
39, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., May 10th, 1911. In reference to Mr. J. W. Allen's interview with you, we write to say that we shall be happy to undertake the production of a series of twelve pictures from Mr. Fisher's originals. We understand that the terms on which the publication is offered to us are as stated below, and we shall be willing to pay the following royalties on copies sold, namely :—
10 (ten) per cent. on the English published price of the first thousand copies
of each picture sold, whether in England or elsewhere;
25 (twenty-five) per cent. on the English published price of the second
thousand copies of each picture sold; and
33 (thirty-three and one-third) per cent. on the English published price of
all copies sold beyond the first two thousand of each picture.
CONDITIONS OF TENDER.
1. The series in the first instance is to consist of twelve pictures, and the Com- mittee agrees that the firm that publishes these twelve shall also have the right to publish any others that the Committee and the publisher together may agree upon.
2. The pictures shall be lent for the purpose of reproduction to the publisher, but shall remain the property of the Committee, who will undertake, however, to keep the originals so that they may be available if at any future time it may be necessary for the publisher to make new blocks.
3. The Committee will give the publisher the sole right of reproducing these pictures on condition that they are paid a royalty that may be agreed upon.
4. The pictures vary in size, but the Committee think that an outside size for reproductions should be 24 inches by 18 inches.
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No. 113.
MESSRS. THOS. NELSON & SONS to VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE. (Received 11 May, 1911.)
DEAR SIR,
35 & 36, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., May 11th, 1911. PLEASE accept our best thanks for your letter of 10th instant.†
We quite agree to the stipulation you make in regard to the picture, and we shall take the opportunity of selecting the picture this afternoon, when Mr. Wilson and myself will be with you, between 3.30 and 4 p.m.
W. E. Noall, Esq.,
Secretary,
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Yours, &c.,
THOMAS NELSON & SONS,
per H. S.
Visual Instruction Committee.
No. 114.
MESSRS. CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, to VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
(Received 18 May, 1911.)
La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C., May 18th, 1911.
DEAR SIR,
WE have carefully considered your proposition to publish for the use of schools a series of Colonial pictures in colour, enlarged from the sketches by Mr. Hugh Fisher.
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