We would respectfully call the attention of the _Bay State Oologist_ to
the following:
Columbus, O., Nov. 17, 1888.
Webster & Mead,
_Gentlemen_:-- * * * * *
* * I have ---- copies left of the present edition (a copy of which I
send you by to-day's mail) which you may have at ---- per cent off.
* * *
Oliver Davie.
March 8, 1888.
Webster & Mead,
_Gentlemen_:-- * * * *
I note what Mr. Foote says in regard to my "Nests and Eggs." When I sent
you the ---- copies they were all I had in stock--at least I thought so,
for it was all I could find in the closet where I kept them. In turning
over a large number of ornithological books for reference, I found a
package of eight copies, one of which I sent Mr. Foote and quoted
prices, but he did not take them and I sent them to Mr. Lattin who was
entirely out of them and wanted them and 500 more if he could get them
at once. Mr. Foote has not _purchased a single copy of the work from me.
I now am entirely out until the third_ edition appears. I have notified
Mr. Foote to that effect. * * *
Yours truly,
Oliver Davie.
Mr. Foote's article, which you have probably all seen, was decidedly
ungentlemanly, to say the least.