亚瑟·卡赛特(Arthur Cassot)致孙中山函 (1912年1月4日)

(原文)

THE MANHATTAN PRESS CLIPPING BUREAN

Arthur Cassot, PROPRIETOR

NEW YORK, Jan.4, 1912

Hon.Sun Yat Sen,Nanking,China.

My Dear Sir:

As we wrote you before we are desirous of suppling you with our most efficient service of press clippings covering the entire country and as we read over 12,000 papers and periodicals weekly, and as our service is known as “the best and most thoroughly done,” we would be glad to enter your order at the low cost of $35 per thousand clippings, and as we make a specialty of arranging this material into a handsome Memorial Album make up of special gilt edged cards (150 pages), bound in the best style of full black seal, at the low cost of $70 in addition to the clippings, and we would be glad to hear from you by return mail or telegram.

 Yours sincerely,

Arthur Cassot

(译文)

纽约,1912年1月4日

致尊敬的孙逸仙先生,中国南京。

尊敬的先生:

如上封信所述,我们希望为您提供最有效的报刊剪辑服务,剪辑内容覆盖全美国。我们每周浏览12000份报刊,服务以“最好最全”著称。如果您订阅,每千份只需35美元的优惠价。我们还会特别安排剪贴资料,装订成一本漂亮的纪念册,蓝色封面,款式漂亮。每页都是一张金边卡片,共150页。剪辑价格外加收70美元,高质低价。我们期待收到你的来信或电报。

亚瑟·卡赛特 谨上