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[[MS 2750/220/23]]

[pre-printed letterhead] The Hogarth Press Leonard Wolf 40-42 William IV Street, London, W. C. 2

23/10/47

Dear Ian,

I return Higham's letter. I imagine we could get Kitchin back if we wanted him as he must have been a complete failure. Crime at Christmas and Death of my Aunt would probably both be worth reprinting if we could afford paper. We did very well with these two books: Death of my Aunt was published 1929 and sold 2800 in first 6 months and the other published 1934 sold about 2200 in first 6 months. Death of my Aunt is referred to as a detective "classic". But I dont [sic] imagine that we can reprint this side of 1949 and he will never do any thing [sic] good again, so that rather reluctantly I suppose we must abandon the books.

I enclose letter from Rosinski. I think we can now well disengage ourselves from him?

Yours | LW [signature]

[handwritten annotation by Ian Parsons] [*Yes, Ian P to return letter to L.W. by hand on 25.10. | Ian P [signature] | 24/10.*]