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[[MS 2750/72/10]] 

5, Acacia Road 
St John’s Wood, NW8

Jan  30, [19]48

Dear Miss Burch,

[*Ack by pc*]

Thank you very much for your cheque for £53. 17.6 received this morning.

Will you kindly clear up the following points:

1) You say that Lear of New York paid £25 for permission to use "Stavrogin's Confession" in an Anthology. Miss Newman the other day showed me an American book, entitled "Stavrogin's Confession, published by Lear publications, with [?] names of [?] the translators, and containing ^only one article by S. Read. It is, therefore, a [illeg.] book, and Lear Publications ought to pay [illeg.] that £25; something like a royalty on copies sold.

2) The first item in your account says: "By 80% of royalties paid for Penguins rights in Gorky;s "Reminiscences." Does this mean that Penguin that Penguin books are to publish ^Gorky as a Penguin book, or is it a different arrangement. If it were to be a Penguin Book, then it would be [illeg.] £22.10-, but this is four times as much. [illeg.] you kindly explain your arrangement [illeg.] Penguin books.

3) Point two and three in your account says: By "75%, for Tcheckhov's Noteboos, and " G. [orky's] Reminicenses" for broadcasting. What is this exactly, and why 75%: also "Talks with Tolstoy"- ditto.

Don't you think, in future, it would save you expense and trouble, if you directed those [illeg] are interested in the Russian translations straight to me, seeing that all the copyrights in those translations have reverted to me?

Yours sincerely | S. S. Kotelianskly [signature]

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