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[[MS 2750/153/4]]

[pre-printed sender’s address] Four Ashes, Dorridge, Birmingham.

5-6-[19]30

Dear Sir

two year [sic] ago you were kind enough to be interested in a book I wrote.  Being one of those queer people who do not study what publishers want, I am still struggling on, hoping that they will take what I offer.

The three enclosed letters are almost self-explanatory.

(1) 'Go seek a stranger' dealt with homosexuals.

(2) 'Saturday night at the Greyhound' is 'too short'.

(3) 'O Providence' deals with the life of a boy, ending during his fourteenth year.  It is very long (92000 words.)

[A large handwritten tick covers the centre of the letter.]

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With all al my cards face up on the table, I am asking if you would care to conside [sic] the M S of the third book.

I should be glad to have the enclosed letters back.  They are a reward of labour and my encouragement to keep on

Yours sincerely | John Hampson Simpson [signature]