Letter from Norman Leys to Leonard Woolf (16/12/1925)

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[[MS 2750/255/92]]

 

16th Dec. 1925

 

Dear Woolf,

 

Wonders will never cease. Please send the enclosed to the unknown benefactor.

 

I wish he would let some of the money be spent on advertising the cheap edition. But as it is I concur with your advice to spend the money early in Jan[uary]. and would suggest that one large advertisement in each of the three papers would be the most

 

 

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effective way.

 

I have sent the mss [manuscript]. of my sixpenny pamphlet to the Fabian Soc. If they turn it down I shall offer it to the I[ndependent].L[abour].P[arty]. If they do I shall offer it to you. If you turn it down I shall get it printed somehow.

 

Yours sincerely | Norman Leys [signature]
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Letter from Norman Leys to Leonard Woolf (16/12/1925)

Author:

Norman Leys

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

Archival Folder:

MS 2750/255_Kenya

Related To:

Kenya

Norman Leys asks Woolf to send an enclosure on his behalf to an anonymous benefactor, he wishes some of the money donated could be spent on advertising the cheap edition of Kenya. He also speaks of a pamphlet he has sent to the Fabian society that he will send to The Hogarth Press should they turn it down.

 

Handwritten letter signed by Leys