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[[MS 2750/152/22]]

Raymond Savage Limited 
25 Haymarket 
S.W.1

18 May, 1932

Dear Mr Savage,

Hampson: O Providence

I have been abroad and have only just seen the correspondence with Knopf regarding this book.  I enclose a copy of a letter which I have written to them.  As you will see, their agreement with us for Saturday Night specifically gave them an option on O Providence provided that we exercised our option on that book.  It gave them no option on any other or subsequent book.  I had the agreement drawn up in that way, because of course we ourselves had no option on any book except O Providence and therefore had no legal power to deal with anything but an option upon that book.  There has been no muddle of any kind in the matter and if Knopf had taken the trouble to refer to the signed agreement, they would have seen that no rights of any kind were given to them except the option (which they have refused to exercise) upon O Providence.

Yours truly | Leonard Woolf [signature]