Letter from The Garden City Press Ltd to The Hogarth Press (01/05/1940) [1]

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[[MS 2750/2/2/7]]

 

LS/VB

 

[pre-printed letterhead] THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD LETTERPRESS PRINTERS BOOKBINDERS STATIONERS LETCHWORTH : HERTS

 

The Hogarth Press, 
37 Mecklenburgh Square, 
LONDON, WC. 1.

 

1st May 1940

 

Dear Sirs,

 

re: ALI - "YET LIFE GOES ON"

 

With reference to the above MS. we would refer you to the following queries in the folios specified and would like your instructions thereon as the dialect is not uniform:-

 

Folio

1.         Mohallah (locality) - roman with cap. - translation in paragraphs.

2.         Kotha - italic - translation as footnote.

11.      Sherwani - italic with cap.

19.       Sherwani - roman and lower case.

259.    doli - roman and lower case.

260.    majzoob - italic and lower case.

  -         Sentences in dialect (page 260) - roman or italic?

 

Yours faithfully, | THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD. | LS. [signature

 

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Letter from The Garden City Press Ltd to The Hogarth Press (01/05/1940) [1]

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University of Reading, Special Collections

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The Garden City Press Ltd asks to confirm typesetting for certain words in Twilight in Delhi.

Typescript letter initialled by L.S [Unidentified signature]