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that they could be concealed between the glass
and the rim of spectacles and in other places as
inconspicuous.

October 263 1885. Up to date 320,000 sets of Gen.
Grant's book have been subscribed for—that is to say
640,000 single volumes.

Got twelve more presses to work; this makes twenty
that are going night and day. If we could get 27 we could
print a complete volume every second, but it is impossible
to get them.

We have seven binderies at work—all large ones. One
of them turns out 1500 volumes per day. This one occu-
pies three large floors, and works upon nothing but this
book. The building was rented, the machinery bought
new and the hands brought from Philadelphia—all for
this book. We are being well scolded by the other pub-
lishers, for they have to send their printing and binding
to other cities.

November 19. Called on President Cleveland at the
White House, by appointment through Johnson of the
Century Magazine and George Walton Green, Chief of
the Authors' League. By little and little I wandered into
a speech, having got speedily warmed up by the first re-
mark or two made on International Copyright—which
remark or two I made myself without intending to say
anything further. Then there was a four-cornered talk of
an hour. The President showed great interest in our sub-
ject and will do it as good a turn as he can in his Message.
I ventured to urge him to make LC, the child of his ad-
ministration, and nurse it and raise it.

December n, 1885. Howells says "I am reading Grant's
book with a delight I fail to find in novels." And again—
"I think he is one of the most natural—that Is, best—

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