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[[MS 2750/72/17]]

AB^*1

S.S.Koteliansky, Esq., 
5 Acacia Road, 
St.John's Wood, N.W.8.

5th December, 1951.

Dear Mr. Koteliansky,

I have now had the opportunity of looking into the matter of STAVROGIN'S CONFESSION about which you 'phoned me. I'm sorry I said that I did not know the publisher, but it all happened so long ago, back in 1947 in fact, that I'm afraid I had forgotten. The gist of the matter is this: Lear cabled us in July 1947 offering 100 dollars for the use of STAVROGIN'S CONFESSION "in a collection of Dostoevsky material", and we accepted their offer. We explained about it to you in a letter of the 29th January 1948 and, at the same time, sent you a cheque for £25, the sterling equivalent of the 100 dollars which we had received on that day. We have since seen a copy of the book which also includes an essay by Freud on Dostoevsky and an Introduction to the unpublished chapter of THE POSSESSED by V. Komarovich.

Yours sincerely, | for The Hogarth Press Ltd.

^*Endnotes

1. Aline Burch.