Letter from John Lehmann to Moura Budberg (31/05/1944)

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[[MS 2750/483/4]]

 

601, Carrington House, Hertford Street, W.1.

 

Baroness Budberg, 
68, Ennismore Gardens, S.W.7.

 

31.5.[19]44

 

Dear Baroness Budberg*1,

 

I am so sorry to have been rather long in letting you know about the fee for the extract from Tchekhoff[sic] Notebooks. We suggest 15 guineas for the 10,000 words, and hope that the Penguin people will agree.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

* Endnote

 

1. Moura Budberg

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Source: MS 2750/483/4

Letter from John Lehmann to Moura Budberg (31/05/1944)

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University of Reading, Special Collections

Lehmann apologises for the delay and informs that Hogarth suggests a fee of 15 guineas for the 10,000 words of extracts from Tchekhov's Notebooks that she has requested.

Typescript letter unsigned