Letter from Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids, London, to William Angus Knight, 1899 November 12 : autograph manuscript signed.

Asking if he has heard anything from Murray about the sale of the George Croom Robertson manuals; saying that she knows of only one publisher, Putnam, that sends a royalty statement twice yearly, whether or not there have been any sales; describing an instance where a friend of her husband T. W. Rhys Davids discovered that a publisher ("a large London one") owed Davids £25 in royalties that had been accumulating over the course of several years, "and it wd. still be owing had he not, unknown to us, got the debt attended to;" listing the royalty she believed she was due to receive for the manuals and her understanding of the expenses of the project and the prospects for sales; writing "Yet it is now 3 years since the manuals were published, & I think Murray might at least have sent me a statement of account? Or does he not know after all that I have a royalty? Or, again, has he told you how the sales have gone, & that there is nothing over for me? Would you spare 5 mintues to send me a line?"; describing the books on Buddhist subjects that she and her husband have recently published; adding "My husband is about to visit the Holy Land of the Buddhists in NE India for 3 months taken by an old friend. But my little children are a great comfort."