Specimen pages from Mrs Dalloway with handwritten notes by Leonard Woolf and John Lehmann (19/11/1941)

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[[MS 2750/564/19]]

 

THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD., LETCHWORTH

 

[*LSvo[?]

I have accepted this - it makes a nice page, and it's a great advantage to get it down to 256 pp.

If we sell 2000 copies us should make £20!! But there is £125 royalty.

J.L.*1[signature] 20.xi.41*]

 

[*Yes, this makes a good page.

LW*2 [signature] *]

 

MRS. DALLOWAY

 

Crown 8vo. [octavo] 256 pp., including 4 pp. prelims.

Set in 11 on 12 pt. Baskerville. Mono series 169.

Measure, 20 ems pica.

Depth of page, 31 lines text.

 

Specimen No. 6667 submitted on November 19th, 1941, to THE HOGARTH PRESS.

 

[*They have supplied quite a decent paper, though it doesn't bulk very thick - but that doesn't matter these days. In addition to that windfall, I have just bought 25 [1 word illeg.] 35x45 [1 word illeg.] art 120 lbs @ 7d per lb - a useful addition to our stock, I think, don't you? I didn't hesitate.

I enclose sample. J.L.*1 *]

 

[* I suppose one could use this for [1 word illeg.] book work? LW*2 22/11*]

 

[illeg. initials, bottom left]

 

[inside pages are printed specimen pages of Mrs Dalloway pages 180 and 181]

 

 

*Endnotes

 

1. John Lehmann.

2. Leonard Woolf.

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Source: MS 2750/564/19

Specimen pages from Mrs Dalloway with handwritten notes by Leonard Woolf and John Lehmann (19/11/1941)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

Archival Folder:

Specimen pages [referenced in letter MS 2750/18] containing correspondence between Lehmann and Woolf. Pages 180 and 181 included.

Typescript document with handwritten annotation belonging to Woolf and Lehmann