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[[MS 2750/2/1/1]]

LSW*1: [illeg. handwritten annotation]

I think you should read this book by Ahmed Ali. I am in agreement with Morgan's*2 alleged statements, but feel also:

(1) The book is very wandering and would need some cutting [*He would*]

(2) The plot even so would remain very weak

(3) The style would need revision in general [*He would*]

(4) The business of Indian 'names' would have to be radically attacked. [*He agrees*]

Ahmed Ali is an extremely nice character. He has contributed to N.W.*3

[*He thinks 2-300 [1 word illeg.] sold very <easily>*]

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The editor of New Writing apologises for the unavoidable delay in communicating with you caused by holidays and the crisis, and regrets that in the present war situation it will be impossible to consider any MSS [manuscripts]. for publication until further notice. He therefore returns your MS [manuscript]. to you herewith.

*Endnotes

1. Leonard Sidney Woolf.

2. E. M. Forster.

3. New Writing.