Letter from Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky to Leonard Woolf (20/03/1923)

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[[MS 2750/38/11]]

 

5 Acacia Rd

St. John's Wood

S. W. 8

 

March [19]20

 

Doporon*1 Leonard

 

I enclose Mountsier's letter which please return. - His suggestion as regards to "Stavrogin [sic] Confession" to be supplemented by the "[1 word illeg.]' revision, I believe, is correct, for American publishers generally like 'thick' books.

 

To the regard to the Goldenweiser material I think, that besides the material (about 6 or 8 thousand words) which Virginia mentioned sending to the Mercury, some ten thousand words should be sent to Cassell's Weekly. They are quite likely to publish it.

 

I also think that the Goldenweiser material ought to be submitted to the Century Magazine or Hearst's Magazine simultaneously with its submission to American publishers. I, at least, am very much interested in making some money of this book.

 

When is "Tolstoi Letters" to appear in John’ London [sic]?

 

Please return me the Russian Goldenweiser before you go away.

 

Yours | SS Koteliansky.

 

 

* Endnotes

 

1. Transliteration of the Russian 'дорогой' meaning 'dear'.

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Letter from Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky to Leonard Woolf (20/03/1923)

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Koteliansky writes to enclose a letter from Mountsier which relates to 'Stavrogin's Confession'. He believes American publishers like thicker books. He also mentions the Goldenweiser material being sent to 'Cassells weekly' and 'the Mercury', suggesting magazines where the Goldenweiser material could also be sent. He enquires when the 'Tolstoi letters' will appear in 'John O'London's' weekly magazine and requests the return of the Russian Goldenweiser material before Woolf leaves.

 

Manuscript letter signed by Koteliansky