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[[MS 2750 2750/7/40]]
LW*1/AB*2
Miss Hope Mirrlees,
Shamley Wood, Shamley Green,
Guildford.
1st October, 1947
Dear Hope,
You may remember years ago we wrote to you about a request from Sheed & Ward in New York to include 'Avvakum' in an anthology for a fee of 75 dollars. We agreed to this and then nothing further happened until a few days ago. They now send me a copy of a letter of July 14th, which they say that was sent to us but which never arrived. I enclose a copy and you will see that they now ask permission to abridge the life and make some alterations. Would you let me know what you think of this? Shall I ask them to let us see the proposed changes?
Yours sincerely, | Dictated but not signed by Mr. Woolf
P.T.O
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P.S. Since writing the above, by an extraordinary coincidence, I have found among some old papers in the office, the original agreement with you and Jane for 'Avvakum.' According to the 6th clause, we have the right to sell or assign American rights and we have to pay you 75% of the receipts
Endnotes
*1 Leonard Woolf
*2 Aline Burch