C/O WM Bradford

42 East 14

New York June 19 1887

My dear Mr. Burk,During my absence from Philadelphia will you do me the favor of opening all letters addressed to me. Some will contain cheques [checks] and bills to be rectified, will you kindly make a memorandum of these and send both cheques and bills to mr Mr. [?], who has commited to attend to all business connected therewith. I have no [?] there [?]

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to others which I must give [?] and attention. If in your judgement any of these are of insufficient importance to require immediate attention, may I encroach on yoru [?] to mail me a [??] to the last address I may give you (which may or may not reach me, as my movements will be herewith erratic), I will [?] keep you [?] from time to time as to when any [?] communications may reach me.

Faithfully yours, Eadweard Muybrdige

Boston 10 July 1887

My Dear Mr. Burk,I Should you have opened any letters addressed to me which in your judgement require early attention, will you kindly include them in an envelope and forward them as a [?] letter to Newport, Rhode Island. I shall be there on Wednesday and probably remain two 2 days, perhaps three 3 or four 4 days,

Business is not very lively, I [am] having great difficulties in finding individuals, I have hence even added some first-class institutions to my [?]Faithfully Yours, Eadweard MuybridgeNewport, Rhode Island

Eadweard Muybridge

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA,

PHILADELPHIA U.S.A.

11th November, 18 87

MY DEAR SIR:

It affords me great' pleasure to inform you that the investigationof the consecutive phases of animal movements which for four years I

,have been conducting at the University of Pennsylvania is completed; theprinting plates are in the hands of the printer, and the work, under thetitle of Animal Locomotion, is in process of publication.

It is a source of much gratification to me that the value of theresults of my labors on this subject--to which more than fifteen yearshave been devoted--is so universally recognized, not only by the Art Con-noisseur, but by the Artist, and by the Scientist, to each of whom theyreveal necessary information, and in an original field of research.

For the student of Nature or of Art a knowledge of the methods bywhich animal locomotion is effected as demonstrated in this work--is in-dispensable, and the plates which illustrate those methods are interest-ing in a remarkable degree even to the general observer.

The great expense incurred, not only in the preparation of the il-lustrations, but also in the manufacture of the individual copies of thework, for the purpose of fully carrying out the objects and desires ofthe University, renders its publication through the ordinary channels ofthe book trade impossible; it will, therefore, be sent to the subscriberdirect from the printers

In magnitude, in the importance and general interest of its sub-ject, and in printing and manufacture, this is the peer of any work everpublished, either in America or in Europe; and a consideration of thefacts that the arrangements for its production originated, and the in-vestigations were made in Philadelphia through the generous encouragementof its citizens, and that its publication in so elaborate a manner isdue entirely to the University of Pennsylvania having taken the workunder its auspices, will, I think, entitle it to an especial interestfrom you, in addition to its artistic or its scientific value.

It is, therefore, with great confidence, as well ass with greatpleasure, that I invite your co-operation in its publication, and I wouldbe pleased to add your own to the many distinguished names already onthe subscription list.

Should you, before deciding on this action, desire to examine speci-men plates of the work, I will send you some for that puripose if you willkindly return me the enclosed card with a notice to that effect; or, ifyou so instruct, I will at once arrange for your making a personal se-lection of the plates, or I will make a selection for you in the mannerdescribed in the accompanying prospectus, to which I beg leave to directyour attention, and am

Yours faithfully, Eadwaerd Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

42 East 14New York 12 [January?] 1888

My Dear My Burk,On their shelf above the table in your old room up stairs you will find two cameras [?]. In the [?] of these are several paper portfolios in the top one of these latter, are the negatives [???]. Before delivering them please examine their condition, and take count their [?] and take

A receipt of them in perfect condition to be returned to you once immediately they are through with them. I think the photo gravure company can do the printing at least as good, and as cheap and any other house. Faithfully yours,Eadweard MuybridgeI have this day [???]

Eadweard Muybridge 42 East 14UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

New York 7 February 1888

My Dear Mr. Burk,

I have accepted several invitations to lecture in New York and [?]; and by the [???] it is [???] to make use of the zoopraxiscope, which is now in the room under the stairs.I have no [?] fit to [?] it or my large lantern. If I made a hurried visit to Philadelphia, and explained [a name] how I want [?] made to transmit through

can you arrange to have the [?] made under his supervision, if I pay the cost of hiring an expert man, and of the materials. These lectures will not be paid for, but I consider it desirable to accept the invitations, as of indirect benefit to the university and Animal Locomotion.I have been asked by one of the [?]-committee of the Union League Club if I will lecture before the members, and I expect an invitation in a day or two. Please let me hear from you.Faithfully Yours, Eadweard Muybridge

My Dear Mr. Burk,I sent you a [?] yesterday, informing you that there had been sent toyour address a box containing a number of packages, including in each one a more [?] of Animal Locomotion for those gentlemen who executed athletic feats for photographic investigation.I do not know the adresses of a number of these gentlement, I and I thought that perhaps the best way to inform them would be the editor of the Pennsylvanian to [?] a [?] to to the effect that [???] are at the university awaiting the

[??] by these gentlement to who they were [?], and apologizing for the unacceptable delay in sending them. I enclose a list of names of these gentlement whose addresses I do not know. It may be as well to the [?] to keep a list of the packages delivered, and to who. Business is very slow. I hope it will be [?] after my lectures at the Union Leage Club and the Century Club.

Faithfully Yours, Eadweard Muybridge

42 East 14, New York6 March 1888My Dear Mr. Burk,May I tresspass on your good nature to [?] from the upstairs store room two of the lenses marked "no 2.A." -- the serial numbers of whichshould be consecutive; they being sold as a "pair."See that the frames, caps, and [?] are all right, the numbers of the latter corresponding with the serial numbers of the lenses.If you will then ask Otto to have them carefully rewrappped in paper, and afterwards put inside a bo with two inches of [?] or "[?]" around each lens, and send them by express to me at your earliest convenienve, I shall be very much obliged.I enclose you a check for $23, which also will you kindly give to Otto, to pay enclosed bill and for [?] magic lantern etc, tthe balance he [?] invest in postage stamps for forwarding my letters.Faithrfully yours, Eadweard Muybridge

[From " THE NATION, " (New York) January 19, 1888.]

ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. eye by their strangeness; but follow the whole action,..

through its various phases, and you will find it freeAninzal Locomotion, : An Electro-photographic In-

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superb.ments By Eadweard Muybridge. Published theseosomeofposturethethcopyneedoneNo 'under the auspices of the University of Pennsyl-vania. photographs, or imagine that because a phase ofvan action is proved to exist it is therefore fit for im-

THE result of years of labor and of large expenditure mediate reproduction of art. The use of these rec-

of money is at last laid before the public in this ords of transient phases of motion is to show how

magnificent work. The 'result is one of which Mr. the body passes from an earlier to a later phase,

Muvbridge and the University of Pennsylvania, as through what changes it passes from rest up to the

well as all those concerned either in the actual in- culminating moment of action and back again to

vestigations or in the supply of funds for carrying rest. And the artist's true method of study is to mas-

them on, may well be proud, and the work should ter the whole movement, and then to select for rep-

belong to every scientific and artistic institution in resentation the one or two phases that most nearly .the country and in the world. convey the sense of this movement as a whole. He

The words of the title must be taken in the widest may even do well to throw away his photographs

sense. By far the greater number of plates are de- altogether, the action once understood, and express

voted to the human " animal," while the " locomo- it by a pose not actually found in any one of them,

tion" illustrated includes almost every action of but conveying better than any of them, taken sepa-

which bones and muscles are capable. It is well rately, the total result of the series. For the end of

known that Mr. Muybridge's investigations began art is not record but expression.

in the attempt to demonstrate the falsity of some So studied, the most interesting revelation that

commonly accepted and traditional methods of de- the camera has given us is not, perhaps, that art has

picting the gaits of the horse. To show how far his been occasionally wrong, but rather that it has been

work has outgrown this narrow aim, it is only neces- so generally right. In turning over these plates, one

sary to state that, out of the 781 plates he has now is constantly struck with the recurrence of attitudes

published, only 95 are devoted to the horse, and only made famous in immortal sculpture or paint-

124 to other animals and to birds, while the other ing. Here is John of Bologna's Mercury; here is a

562 are devoted to men, women and children, nude, fragment from the Parthenon; here is a figure of

semi-nude and draped, walking, running, dancing, Michael Angelo's or Raphael's or Tintoret's—until

getting up and lying down, wrestling, boxing, leap- one is filled with wonder at the power of the eye or

ing and playing at athletic games—in short, acting brain that saw or divined actions and movements

before our eyes the animal life of man. that have waited until now for proof of their verity.

Here we have' the naked, absolute fact: here, for Even in the representation of the lower animals,

the first time, human eyes may see just how the hu- always less carefully observed, this is true. The

man body moves in the performance of its functions, full-spread gallop of the horse in sporting prints is

how backs bend and hips balance and muscles strain gone, but the dog has it; the canter of the horses of

and swell. This is not art, but it is a mine of facts the Parthenon is true; and in the first equestrian

of nature that no artist can afford to neglect. How statue modelled in modern times Donatello has ren-

would Signorelli, that enthusiast of movement and dered the walk with an accuracy unsurpassable. It

anatomy, who drew his dead son naked, or Michael is only the moderns and the weaklings that suffer.

Angelo or Benvenuto, who thought the crupper " a The Greeks and the great masters of the Renaissance

beautiful bone," have revelled in such volumes as saw truly and well.

these! How splendid nature is! Here are dancing There is not space, nor is there any need, to go

girls graceful enough to delight the soul of Raphael; into detail. Least has been done in the investiga-

athletes with heroic movement that would fire the tion of the flight of birds, where the difficulties were

spirit of Buonarotti ; foreshortenings and flowing peculiarly great; what has been done shows the mar-

contours to satisfy Tintoret; and all with the indis- vellous observative faculties of the Japanese, who

putable stamp of fact, painted for us by the same have rendered bird-flight more truly than the art-

sun that illumined these glowing chests and cut ists of all other races. But the presentation of

sharp shadows under the edges of swelling muscles. human and quadrupedal action is bewilderingly.

Thus to see the natural man in his own motion un- abundant and complete, and we cannot more fit-

der natures's light is a lesson to humanity of its own tingly conclude our review than by repeating our

glory that the Puritan and the ascetic, the con- recommendation to all artistic and scientific bodies,

temner of the nude and the ignorer of art, would do and indeed to all private persons who can afford to2) well to study.

For, any impression to the contrary notwithstand-

do so, to subscribe at least for the one hundredplates that make up a " copy " of the work, and for

ing, these plates are beautiful. There are certainphases of movement that seem awkward, certain

7)71ep transient movements when the limbs assume pose-as many more as they can compass the means for.Communications may be addressed to Mr. EadweardMuybridge, in care of the University of Pennsyl-

• tions which none has ever seen, and which strike the vania.

Rev J.Y. Burk,Please Deliver to the [?] of this [??] the two 4 [?] remaining in your

NOTHING BUT THE ADDFiESSTO BE ONTHIS SIDE,

- - _

MILWAUKEE, June 19th, 1888,

You are respectfully invited to attend a lecture by Mr. EADWEARDMUYBRIDGE, on

ANIMAL LOCOMOTIONIN ITS RELATION TO ART,

Illustrated with Illuminated Photographs of the consecutive phases of move-ments of Horses and other animals, Birds, Men, Women and Children, beingthe result of an investigation made under the auspices of the University ofPennsylvania,

---AT THE

HALL OF THE MILWAUKEE COLLEGE,

Thursday Evening, June 21st, 1888 at eight o'clock

COMMITTEE: -C. S. FARRAR. MRS. S. S. FRACKELTON. E. C. ELDRIDGE.

THE PLANKINTON.

C. W. WHITE, MANAGER.

Milwaukee, 22 June 1888

My dear Mr. Burk,Your letter forward from Chicago was handed to me last night, as I was preparing to enlighten a Wisconsin audience on the methods of attaining a true appreciation of Animal Locomotion. I enclose you a card thereof; thanks to the lecturer to the University of Pennsylvania was voiced by a large and appreciative audience. I did pretty well in Chicago, fourteen [14] $100 subscribers, and two [??] $600 su and expect some more when I return, after the convention. During the [??? I expect to [?] Madison, Wisconsin.

St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Denver, probably also Cincinatti, it is of no use visiting St. Louis until later in the Fall.With regards to the lenses I shall be pleased to [?] any of my lenses at the [?] of the Babylonian expedition and one of the 5/8 Cameras, [?] I should strongly recommend the commission to take a more [?] camera, say a 4x5, and to [?] a good one with at least a dozen dry plate holders, and a hundred dozen plates, and to be very careful about [?][?] both cameras plate holders are well [?] from [?][?] when at work. To always carry the plate holders in a black bag, and to take them out of the bag only under the the focusing cloth, which should be tied together at the bottom, so as to exclude light reflected from the ground.

Express my reregrets , at this mishap, with my hope and expectation that they will soon be all right again. I think they were, both, honorable men, and I [?] with them in their trouble.I will enclose with this a P.O. [?] in Philadelphia for five pounds, which you say will cover expenses, of [?] and [?]. Where have you [?] the [?]? Are there any large or heavy ones?I have not decided what I will do with the 1000 shots [?]. Do you think, if you went to open the case, and offer them to [?] you could sell the lot in quantities to give at seventy-five cents each, retaining 33/3 for per [?] for your troubles?With regards to the portfolios I do not think Lippincott would make any more [?] six or seven dollars each. When Dr. Pepper purchased the 30,000 [?] of Animal Locomotion, it was for the [?] of the Philadelphia Museum donating them to various institutions of science, and education, and they were accepted by the Museum for that purpose, and no other. Do you know what has been doen with them, now, if the museums [?][?] to carry all their [?] they [?][?] to[???] and see him to make an offer for them, if you cannot do better

accept four dollars ($4) each for the lot, and retain 25% for your trouble. With regards to my two new books, "Animals in Motion" has been published, and last fall I [?][?][?] containing a review of it. Did you get it? "The Human Figure in Motion" is now in the hands of the [?] and every day or two I am getting galley proofs for approval and correction. The books will probably be out this coming autumn or fall. They are [?][?] in this country -- when it is out -- I [?] coming over with a [?] of each to see what I can do with it in the US and Canada. Now my dear [?], I have written rather a longish letter but I hope not too long for you [?] give enough of your [?] time to read, as there are a few matters I thought it best not to be too brief about. I forget your number, and you do not remind me of it in your letter, however I will register this, so that it will [?] come to hand all right [?] remember me to Mrs. [spouse of letter recipient] and explain the help that Elizabeth is [?] only all the more than theFaithfully Yours, Eadweard Muybridge

I very much [want?] to own the plates, copyrights, etc of the new book If I decline, and the [?] decline to have it, I shall either raise the money from some of my friends on this side, and publish it myself, or put it in the hands of a publisher, which latter [?] I am anxious to avoid. Whichever alternative [?][?] if it is agreeable to the trustees, publish it under the auspices of the University, wihtout any liability on its [?]. I consider myself under an obligation to the University to do all in my power to promote its fame, if I cannot add to its material a noted [?]. This latter [?] lead me to think of the very [?] and [?] aid of [?][?] (Dr. Pepper's magnificent gift of $50,000, [?] perhaps all things considered were [?][?] than my having a half million, but for the purposes and advantages of the University in the latter, of [?] is the most acceptable. I have no doubt Mr. [?] will make an admirable provost, he has not the [?] or the genius of Dr. Pepper but he is a good [?] man, and therefore [?] has g

Soloman, I cannot say I thought Mr. Lo[?] equalled either of them, although there is no doubt of his having done a good deal in Columbia. I have had a very good notion to wait to Mr. [?] explains my very humble [?] to his [?], but I am in much doubt whether he will [?][?] it. Had "Animal Locomotion" [?] and a spendid [?] in addition to a brilliant [?] success, I thought undoubtedly had don so, but I am apprehensive that I am merely high in favor [?] any of my [?] and [?] shall not be until they have [?] the thousand dollars or so they are each of them [???] as [?] to this [???]. I have done by best, and if I did not succeed in making the work pay for itself, I cannot bring myself to believe that I am to blame. The only favor that I can [?] for them to [?] is to take the plates now at the University, pay off the few hundred dollars due on them, and either dispose of them, or present them to the University for [?] distribution. If I hda the money I would do it myself. I have already been anxious for the unive

Faithfully Yours, Eadweard Muybridge

My Dear Mr. Burk, I yesterday sent , via Addams Express, a box addressed to you, which I shall feel greatly obliged if you will cause to be put in the room under Dr. Barker's lecture room.I paid the freight, but it has since occurred to me that there may possibly be some local charge for transporting tthe box to West Philadelphia. I therefore enclose you 50 in stamps to cover such expense, if any. If the money paid in New York [?] the expenses to the remaining [?], it will be hardly worthwhile to return the money, but do me the favor of putting the equivalent amount in the box in at the next collection taken in your chuch, to which

I wish every prosperity.Faithfully yours,Eadweard Muybridge

Address C/O J.B. Lippincott

10 Henrietta StCovent GardenLondonBerlin, 15 July 1891My Dear Mr. Burk,It is so long since I wrote to you that -- I really [?] -- from whence my love-letter [?][?] -- but - beeing [?][?] antedated my expedition to Italy. I will give you a brief account of my happenings from the time I left Berlin in teh Spring. I have send you newspapers containing a [?] of my lectures, thinking it probable that after reading them you might be good enough to hand them over to your brother and in due course of time a paragraph mightappear in the "Ledger." (I would like very much to see an occasional Ledger but they are attained this part of the world with rare difficulty). You will have seen the [?] of the reception accorded me (or, rather to the Animal Locomotion of the University of Pennsylvania of which [?] I invariably [?] to be merely teh humble agent in Berlin. By the [?] and by

the same kind of [?] in Munich. From the latter city I went direct to Rome, where to my surprise I found but few painters of any great [?] but [?] the French academy and the [??] of [?]. Being in Rome on a Sunday, I deemed it the proper thing to go to St. Peters and reverentially kiss the [???] toe, as is the custom of all true believers of his papal descendance. From Rome to Naples is not a very difficult journey, and there on presentation of letters of introduction had [???] on the ??] explain both the [?] of the University and the Royal Academy of Art. I decided at Naples that as I had not devoted much time to pleasure since I left the US, to have two days holiday. I duly ascended to the summit of Vesuvius and examined the workings of the the craters interior, and also wandered through the [???] of Pompeii, it is not worthwhile for me to trouble you with my own experiences of each of these, or indeed of any other place, where [?] brought me, they were probably the same as those of more [?] and have thence

of distinguished [?],to who I gave a discourse, as, of course, a man cannot travel without reaching some knowledge of the language. I am happy to say that I now speak Italian, German, and French with equal fluency. Professor Mo[?]o however very kindly rendered my remarks to the audience in his own admirable style, as I was not quite familiar with the [?] dialect. To sum up, the universities now on the subscription list are teh following: Oxford, Berlin, Paris, Munich, Naples, Leipzig, Rome, Bologna, [?], Bern, Tubingen, Wuzburg, Geneva, Freiburg, Basel, [?], [?], Gottingen, Bonn, Strausberg, Vienna, Heidelberg, [?], Genoa, Zurich, Pisa, [?], Budapest, Florence, Padua. Genoa and Florence however are call "high schools" and although important centers of education have not attained the dignity of name which [?] to "university." In addition to these, the Royal and other Academies or all -- of Paris, Berlin, Munich, Rome, Naples, Florence, [?], Venice, Milan, Genoa, [?], Budapest, Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, Leipzig, [

filling up the subscription book. Now, in regard to what I will candidly confess is the principle object of this letter, to ask a favor of you. It will be necessary for me to send to each subscriber a "Catalogue of the Plates." In the room upstairs where the glass plates are stored, are a few hundred of each. Will you kindly have packed in one a [?], four hundred (400) of these catalogues, and deliver them to Lippincott with the request that they be enclosed in the first consignment of goods to their London house. Will you kindly have the package addresed "J. B. Lippincott, London, to be sent with first consignment" and if not too much trouble will you see Mr. Thomas, or Bertie Lippincott, ask them to forward them, and I will pay Mr. [?] whatever freight may be charged. Should there not be 400 catalogues at the University, I think it probable that there may be some at Lippincott's. Hope you are well, and will enjoy your vacation to return to return with renewed vigor to your post.I am faithfully yours, Eadweard Muybridge

[?] [?].I cannot ascertain anything about the microscopic [?] lenses. When I get to England I will write to Dr. Reicherd asking if he has seen them in his laboratory. As I mentioned to you, the duration of my visit is somewhat indefinate, as it seems now; it will be dependent upon circumstances; if I canbe of any servi ce to you or to the University while I am abroad, I shall be only too glad. With all good [?],Faithfully Yours,Eadweard Muybridge

Hampton Wick, Middlesex, England1894My Dear Mr. Burk, I hoped to have had the pleasure of seeing you before I sailed, as I wanted to personally ask of you the favor of taking charge of any lletters which may arrive for me, during my absence. Should there be any foreign or California letters, will you kindly re-address them to the address quoted above. I shall

Feel obliged if you will open all other letters and if amogn them there are any from the Photo-Gravure Company of New York, or on business committed with that company, will you immediately send them to Mr. [??] at the Academy of Fine Arts. I expect to have some legal desputes with that company and I will ask Mr. [?] to look after them in the interests of the guarantors and of myself. All of domestic letters please exercise your own judgement as to whether it l

Worth while to send them on to me, or to put them in the waste paper basket, and I shall be content with your discretion. I do not think there will be many worth sending on, but whatever you do send I will from time to time send you postage stamps.I thought it [?] that you might in some of your photographic work, make use of a 5x8 camera of the [??] I left one in your [??] without your name on it. It of [???] accept it, I do not know where all the plate holders have gone, but think some of them were left at the

August 5th, 1895My Dear Mr. Burk,As I was desirous ofimmediately replying to your kind letter of 20 July, I had no time to commune when several photographs which I should otherwise have [?] I regret very much to hear that the [?] has [?]when you hand [?] back, that you do not feel like [?], now, I am [?] to make a supposition -- not in view however of expectation with that you should [?] away more of your valuable time in writing to me, than you [?] is in my interests -- [?] and when important matters. In your letter, why do you write any more than your name? [?] the university out to be [???] not only with a machine, but

also with a steographic typewriter. I have often wondered how you manage to see through all your [??], and think it almost time for you to make a change in your method. I am [??] in your opening all my letters, and giving them more attention as they require. With [?] and to the book from the [??], will you kindly open it and see if it contains "Amimal Locomotion" in any way -- such as [?] of horses as [?] animals, which will be [?] in the book I am now publishing, "The motion of the horse and other animals in nature and in art." I hope in this to have a great many [???] of the manner in which animal movements have been depicted by arists of all natures, and of every age, from the time of

the Cave dwellers, I have consulted many artists, scientific men, and librarians [?], they are think it will be popular and [?]. I have offered my drawings and manuscripts to Mr. [?] in the [?]; providing they will pay the expenses of publication. A well known publisher in London has offered to publish it, and allowed 25% of sales this January not [?] until the [?] for [?] will perhaps cost two-hundred and fifty [pounds?] -- and the cost of printing and binding 1000 [?] alone another hundred [pounds?]. The book to sell for one [?]. That is a guineau a volume when [?] and 10/6 for a [?] volume in when in good [?]. The [?] either of 1000 copies,, he tells me he delivers, ie, until a second edition of at least 500 copies. Whenever it does, I shall

make very little out of it. Whereas if I publish it myself and deliver it by subscription a I did "Animal Locomotion" there will be a profit of six [?] on an eidition of 1000 copies, I believe I can sell that number myself without half the trouble or time it took to [?] the 300 or 400 [?] for the $100 copies of "Animal Locomotion." I [?], I [?][?][?] to give either the university or the [?] the drawings and [?] if the would publish it, and that I would go round and sell it on their [?]; - and attend to all matters commercial therewith, on an equivalent [?], say about one thing at 40%. As the university both [?][?][?][?] under its [?], I should [?]

CONFIDENTIAL

THE CHESTNUTS.KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.7 August 1895

my dear Mr. Burk,I thank you for fordwarding the letter enclosed -- "please forward."

I have this day written to Mr. [?] to the effect, that, [?] he was somewhat tired of the applause which is a natural corollary of his munificient donation to the University, I would content myself by simpyl congratulating the university

[and its trustees in having obtained his [?] to accept the [?] to [?] and to [?][?] by his industrious and progressive [?].

[I have also written at some length to Mr. Samuel [?] about the fraudulent designs of the [?] Compant of New York, and [?] him to see if he could not get the mis-[?][?] I could come back and attend to it. If it goes by default, I do not see how the [?] can be [?]. I [?] [?] my letter to Mr. Dickson with: "It is advisable for the [?]

[to permit this [?] or for the University to allow such a disastrous termination of a work which is recognized as the standard authority on teh [?] and known the world over as being published under its auspices." I did not care to mix this matter up in my letter to Mr. [?], but I am very anxious that Mr. Dickson should communicate the contents of my letter to him as early as possible. Would there be any [?] in your calling on Mr. Dickson, explaining to him

[that I had written to you upon the subject, and asking him to converse with Mr. [?]. You might do this -- if you think it advisable -- as a disintered actor you [?][?], to the anxiety I had expressed in my letter to you.Faithfully Yours, Eadweard Muybridgenever mind above [?] to me of the [?]; those [?] of it, in [?] of time from mr.

16 June 1899My Dear Faber, You are aware that before I left Philadelphia I had arranged with J.B. Colt and Company of 3,5,7 West 29 Ave, New York, for the use of my negatives to print lantern slides therefrom, the time mentioned in the agreement having expired we have mutually agreed not to continue it, and I am desirous of having the negatives sent over here, I have therefore instructed [?] Colt to ship them to [?] Wilson and Company, Aberdeen, in "[?]" to Glasgow. It was my intention to have returned to America, the [?], attended to the packing and shipping myself, to endeavor to sell the 1000 plates of "Animal Locomotion" (given to me by Dr. Pepper, when I transferred to him the remainder of the [?] old plates)

and to [?] the [?] - the two new books "Animals in Motion" and "the Human Figure in Motion," the first which, after huge delay, has just been finished, and of which I last week sent you a prospectus. The publishing company with which I made the contract, in violation of agreement, have not [?] the record book ready, and it [?] not [?][?] before Christmas, and so my presence here is necessary to attend to it, and I thought it inadvised to come back with one book only, I decided to postpone my return. Under these circumstances I have written to Colt to shop the negatives, and they [?] [?] immediately after you recieve this. When I left New York, Colt was good enough to allow me to leave with them 4 boxes containing the 1000 plates, before [?] and a number of new [?], these boxes can be comfortably handled by two men. I have been considering what to do with them in teh meanwhile. I have instructed

[C olt to hold them, subject to your order, and I think it will be advisable to get them away. Will it be convenient for you to put them in your office and let them remain there, until I return, or otherwise dispose of them, and if so will you write to J.B. Colt requesting them to send them to you by Pennsylvanian Railroad. Colt & Co also have in their [?] a lot of negatives made from thd drawings which you and I made of elongated animals, arrayed in a circle for the Zoopraxiscopic Lantern. These I should like to be [?] utterly destroyed, that no remnants of them will remain. I do not care for any lantern discs ever to be made from them, and I do not think it advisable that they should by any longer existent. If you will be going on to New York some time this summer, will you do me the favor of calling at Colt and personally smash the into very many pieces.I have instructed the Colts that they are at your disposal, so that you will not need any special order from me, you had however perhaps as well show them this letter as your identification, as well as for your authority to dispose of them as I suggest. To save [?] of packing and shipping to Philadelphia the colts, I have no doubt, will allow you to break them up at their store. I now much regret ever having [?] made them, as they are not calculated to enhance my reputation, the original [?] photographed [?] side, are those I prefer to leave behind me, and I shall feel more comfortable when you write me of your having completely destroyed them. I think there are some forty of them all together. I think my dear Faber this is all I have to say of any [?] of a business nature, I hope Mrs. Faber, your father, mother, and brothers are all well and as happy and energetic as when I last had hte [?][?][?] Yours Faithfully, Eadweard Muybridge

11 March 1901My Dear Faber,I recieved your kind letter on Saturday too late for the steamer which sails from Liverpool the same day. As I see it is dated 25 february tehre must have been some delay in its [?]. Before we proceed to business allow me to offer you my sincere congratulations to you and to Mrs. Faber upon the advent of a [?][?][?] [?] and cheer your evenings, especially if she is not too much [?][?] where [?][?]

[now with regards to the affairs of J.B. Colt and Company, you need [?][?] I appreciate the [?][?] and with their [?][?] as bound to make money for [?][?][?] you they months ago, shipped the negatives of Animal Locomotion to [?][?][?] and company, photographers, of Aberdeen. The more important of the good I asked them to send to you and wrote to ask you to take care of [?][?] were three (3) boxes containing about 1000 photo negatives and about 20 [?]. The [?] as I told you were given to me by Dr. Pepper, when I sold him the 30,00 remaining

[These I hope were about 22 inches square and 12 inches deep, marked with my name and contents, and if I read your letter correctly, are now in your possession, together with a volume (bound in [?]) of my original photographs, published in California, and [?] in 1881.I have not been to Aberdeen to see whether Colt shipped the whole of the negatives to Wilsons, and therefore hardly know what the remaining seven boxes (ten in all you say) contain. I sold to Colt, as I think you know, all of the rest of Trans-Panamerica (mounted on large [?] of glass) from which the large gelatin negatives for joining were made, also [?] [$20 or $30,000 plain, imperfect Zoopraxographic cards, and some few hundred of the colored perforated discs ready for use as a scientific toy (if I recollect right, you have a complete set of each -- 50 of the former in a portfolio, and a dozen of the latter, kindly let me know what quantities of these, respectively, you suppose have been sent to you). If there are any additional quantities of them they have been send to you in error, and I will write to Colt and [?] them at their disposal , and paying the expenses. I will by this mail write to an old friend of mine (Dr. O.G. Mason the scientific photographer of Bellevue [?] New York,