THE MEANING OF 'IMPRESSION' AND 'ISSUE'

Mr Allen T. Hazen reminds me that a large paper copy of my no. 1 6, the Nicholls copy, is now in the possession of Mr W. S. Lewis at Farmington; and he suggests, from his own examination of the book, that the conjugate pair 2P2.3 is a cancel. Mr John Cook Wyllie of the University of Virginia has found a cancel that I missed in my no. 8, the leaf B8. I have looked back through most of the copies that I originally saw, but have found no cancellandum B8. Dr William B. Todd notices that the variant titles of my no. 1 indicate, not states, but separate editions, undifferentiated but for a few literal correct tions. He has discovered, at Harvard and at the Library of Congress, copies of my no. 5 with the 'cancel' title (i.e. the one with the plate printed the right way up) conjugate with A4, which means that my argument in explanation of the printing arrangements of this difficult book must be reconsidered. Finally he tells me that the copy of my no. 6 in the New York Public Library was revised in MS. by Mason himself, possibly with a view to the publication of no. 19. Philip Gaskell