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Letter from Leonard Woolf to Alfred A. Knopf Inc (04/06/1947)
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Source: MS 2750/38/71
Letter from Leonard Woolf to Alfred A. Knopf Inc (04/06/1947)
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University of Reading, Special Collections
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Aline Burch
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Description
Woolf writes to Knopf on discovering that Knopf has sold the American rights of The Gentleman from San Francisco for $40 to Pocket Books Inc, he informs that these rights were originally sold to Seltzer by The Hogarth Press and that this agreement means they need 50% of the proceeds received by Knopf. He asks how they acquired these rights.
Typescript letter unsigned