:12:00
I'd like to think none of them would
countenance this Anglican Latin Bible...
:12:05
...if they knew it existed.
:12:06
As it happens,
they don't know Latin existed.
:12:16
I enclose $4 to cover the $3.88 due you.
:12:21
Buy yourself a cup of coffee
with the 12 cents.
:12:24
There's no post office near,
and I'm not running all the way...
:12:27
...to Rockefeller Plaza to stand in line
for a $3.88 money order.
:12:31
If I wait until I get down there
for something else, I won't have the $3.88.
:12:36
I have implicit faith in the U.S. Airmail
and His Majesty's Postal Service.
:12:43
Have you got a copy of Landor's
Imaginary Conversations?
:12:46
I think there are several volumes.
:12:48
I want the one
with the Greek conversations.
:12:51
If it contains a dialogue
between Aesop and Rhodope...
:12:54
...that will be the volume I want.
:12:56
That, I think, is the one we've got.
:13:00
Cecily...
:13:02
...Landor, Imaginary Conversations.
:13:04
Dig it out, would you?
:13:14
Dear Miss Hanff: Your $4 arrived safely...
:13:17
...and we have credited the 12 cents
to your account.
:13:22
We have in stock Volume 2 of The Works
and Life of Walter Savage Landor...
:13:27
...which contains the Greek dialogues
you mentioned...
:13:30
...as well as the Roman dialogues.
:13:33
It is an old edition published in 1876,
not very handsome, but well-bound...
:13:38
...and a good, clean copy.
:13:40
We are sending it off to you today
with invoice enclosed.
:13:45
I'm sorry we made the mistake
with the Latin Bible.
:13:48
We'll try to find a Vulgate for you.
:13:50
Not forgetting Leigh Hunt.
:13:55
Yours faithfully, FPD, for Marks & Co.