Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York to James F. Edwards, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1887 November 5

Clarke's delay in answering Edwards' letters was due to the hope that Clarke could tell when the third volume of the Lives of the Bishops would be issued. He is not now able to answer the question. He received two propositions, one from Kehoe and the other from Benzigers, but both proposed to take all the profit. Clarke concluded to publish it himself and also issue the three volumes together as a set. The third volume will cost $3 and the set $7.50 net. Clarke thought of issuing a circular to Bishops, clergy, colleges and universities, and Catholic laymen. He thinks he will propose to the Authors' Club of New York to organize an Authors' Protective Company. The work is now complete and ready for publication. Clarke has some duplicates of the Freeman's Journal and Shea's Series. He also has Bancroft's History of the Pacific States which he wishes to dispose of at the original price of $5.50 per volume. Although the work is justly liable to criticism, there is much of value in it.