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Heruvimov is going to bring out this work as a contribution to

the woman question; I am translating it; he will expand these two

and a half signatures into six, we shall make up a gorgeous title

half a page long and bring it out at half a rouble. It will do!

He pays me six roubles the signature, it works out to about

fifteen roubles for the job, and I've had six already in advance.

When we have finished this, we are going to begin a translation

about whales, and then some of the dullest scandals out of the

second part of Les Confessions we have marked for translation;

somebody has told Heruvimov, that Rousseau was a kind of

Radishchev. You may be sure I don't contradict him, hang him!

Well, would you like to do the second signature of '_Is woman a

human being?_' If you would, take the German and pens and

paper--all those are provided, and take three roubles; for as I

have had six roubles in advance on the whole thing, three roubles

come to you for your share.