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9 Heathcote St 
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Dec[ember] 7th 1933

Dear Mr Woolf,

I regret extremely that the Hogarth Press has had to write to me so often about the account.

I was sent to this country to study law but with my own mind set on literature and politics. I asked for the money to publish the pamphlet and got it in as much as you had accepted the manuscript. But I received no encouragement to be allowed to live in London and try to write. In April I received one or two offers of articles for about W[est]. I[ndies]. cricket team; and realising that perhaps here was a chance to avoid the law, which I dislike intensely, I took the risk and came into London on my own with the £16, . I know I should have paid, but it was my only way out. I have not been unsuccessful. I have supported myself and have promises of work next Summer from the Manchester Guardian. But

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the winter has been rather a blank. I am sure, however, I shall raise the money  before the end of the month; but it is comparatively speaking, a large sum and it will take me a little time. That is why I wished to see you a few days ago. I would not wish you to think that, the book being published, I neglected the matter.

yours sincerely | C.L.R. James.