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5 Acacia R[oa]d 
St John's Wood 
N.W.8

December 11

Doporior*¹ Leona[r]d

I enclosed the letters, and two M[anu]s[cript[s]. with corrections on separate pieces of paper.

I think Tolstoi's letters are very good indeed. As to Biryukov's^*2 "Autobiographical Elements" I think they are quite useful for general reasons, and quite worth publishing.

Don't you think it is worth while trying "John o' London*³" for the*⁴ Biryukov article? Then the question of money will be settled quite satisfactorily.

I am awaiting to hear from you as regards to the Gorkie and the Dostoevsky M[anu]s[cript]s.

Yours | SSK*⁵ [signature]

*Endnote

*1   Russian for Dear.

*2 possibly referring to Vladimir Biryukov

*3 This was a Weekly Literary magazine.

*4 When writing the word 'the', the 'h' is sometimes omitted.

*5 Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky