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[[MS 2750/317/3]]

Oct. 22. 1924

Dear Woolf,

Your[?] letter of Oct. 21.

(1) I should not require extra special paper.

(2) On second thoughts I think 50 copies would be better than 100. I quite realise that this diminution of the number would not really affect the price. I am quite prepared to pay £15 to £20 for the 50 copies.

(3) It is rather a blow about you being full up. I wanted the thing as a Christmas present. On the other hand I should prefer to have it done [1 word struck through] by the Hogarth Press. It would give it a cachet which it will otherwise lack sadly.

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(4) I fear I can’t put it into shape for ^a public edition. The only point is a certain intimacy about it. That would be lost if it were publicly issued.

Therefore:-

I    If you could do 50 copies by December 15 at £15 - 20 I will send you the typescript

II  If not, don’t bother any more, as I shall get[?] it done by Constable or someone.

Are you, and your terrifying wife^*1, amused by the Press [?] of Vita’s Seducers?’’ I am, “The scene of Miss V.S.W’s^*2  new novel is laid in Ecuador’’, is really a very engaging notice[?].

Sincerely [?] | Harold Nicolson [signature]

[written at the top of page 1 as a postscript note]

This is meant to be a polite, [3 words illeg.] letter. On reading it over it seems curt, thankless and confused. So Sorry! Yours

*Endnotes

1 Virginia Woolf

2 Vita Sackville-West