[James Sully, pioneer psychologist.] Three Autograph Letters Signed to the publishers W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., regarding his editing of a translation of Bernard Perez's 'First three Years of Childhood'.

The three items in good condition, on aged paper. The second letter is addressed to 'Messrs Sonnenschein & Co', and from the context the other two are clearly to the same recipients.ONE: 2pp., 12mo. He states that he would be 'willing to edit Perez's work provided that the translation is well done & that only a general revision of it is necessary', and that he 'could not undertake to correct a faulty piece of work'. He asks the publishers to send him the manuscript, 'so that I may judge, together with a copy of the original', and asks for their terms. 'Perez's work is an interesting one in many ways, & a good translation ought, I should say, to sell well.' TWO: 1p., 16mo. He 'read carefully through, & marked for my own purposes, the sheets of M. Perez's volume, The first three years of Childhood', which the publishers sent him. Wishing to have them bound, he asks for 'a clean copy of the title-page & also of the index, if there is one, so that I make my copy quite complete'. THREE: 1p., 12mo. He thanks them for their letter and the copies of the book, 'also for the clean sheet', and is 'glad the volume meets with success'. Perez's 'The first three Years of Childhood', edited and translated by Alice M.Christie, with an introduction by Sully, was published by Sonnenscheins in 1885.