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[embossed letterhead] BRAILSFORD. NR DERBY.
12th July 1924
Dear Woolf,
Will you be so very kind as to advise me about this? I am utterly ignorant of the whole subject. I only know that the book must be published, whatever the cost to me, and presume it is too late to send the mss.[manuscripts] to any other publisher in time for the autumn season.
On the points the letter raises I
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may add, first, that I hope to make cuts totalling 5000 words but cannot do more, second, that as an aunt of mine died last year and left me my first legacy of £600, the first alternative in the letter is not out of the question.
In view of the first appointed Royal Commission the book ought to have a fair chance of success. Please return attached.
Yours sincerely | Norman Leys [signature]
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P.S. I have written to A. & U. (to whom Gilbert Murray sent me) asking what price they propose the book should be sold at, the date they propose for publication, and other particulars.
I realise I am laying a heavy burden on you and if you would rather not have the responsibility of advising any particular course first return the enclosures in this envelope. I had hoped that if the book was a success and I made,
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say, £200, I could spend these profits in bringing out a cheap edition for use by W. E.A. I.L.P rc.[?] But neither of these offers of A. & U. give any hope of profit, it appears.
Norman Keys [signature]