Letter from Aline Burch to Martin Melsted (23/09/1948)

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[[MS 2750/561/9]]

 

AB*1

 

Martin Melsted, Esq., 
75 South Hill Park, 
N.W.3.

 

23rd September,1948.

 

Dear Sir,

 

With reference to your call at this office, I have discussed with Mr. Woolf the question of your arranging for LETTER TO A YOUNG POET by Virginia Woolf to be published in Danish. We are willing for you to do this but should like to know whether you propose to publish it in a journal or whether you have a publisher interested in bringing it out in book form. If the latter, we should, of course, have to have an agreement with the publisher and our charge would be a 10% royalty with an advance of Ten Guineas. If, on the other hand, you wish to publish it in a journal, we should charge a fee of Seven Guineas. Perhaps you would be good enough to let me know what you proposed [sic].

 

Yours faithfully, | for The Hogarth Press Ltd.

 

 

*Endnotes

 

1. Aline Burch.

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Source: MS 2750/561/9

Letter from Aline Burch to Martin Melsted (23/09/1948)

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University of Reading, Special Collections

Burch writes regarding the publication of Letter to a Young Poet in Danish and asks whether it would be published in a journal or in a book form, with note about the cost of each option.

Typescript letter unsigned