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23rd July 1924

Dear Woolf,

Everything about the book 'Letters of Stephen Reynolds" seems to me excellent. Unfortunately my daughter got hold of it before I knew and began to read it and cut some of the pages. Please let me know its cost and I will send it.

T. Jones telegraphed that I was to send him some of the mss of

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my book. I sent him five chapters. He writes that he is reading them and will write in two days. Unwin writes to explain that he made proposed 12/6 though from the size of the book it should be 16/- because he understood it was intended as a good deed in a naughty world, not as a commercial proposition. I have written to ask what difference, in his opinion,

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publication at 15/- would make to sales, and how he would propose to dispose of the extra half crown.

I now feel strongly in favour of your offer. But my wife is the kind of person who dislikes my always being in a minority and wants me to publish with someone of established position. Why shouldnt [sic] I help to establish your position? And why should not you, in

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return, show less capacity than publishers hardened to their trade?

Seriously, it all depends on T. Jones, as I promised Unwin I would follow his advice. But I am getting very impatient about the delay.

Yours | Norman Leys [signature]

It is cheering to know that Unwin obviously wants the job. He seems to think the book quite good which I understand is rare in a publisher.