Letter from Leonard Woolf to Edward Thompson (06/06/1926)

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[[MS 2750/487/21/]]

 

Edward Thompson, Esq.,

Scar Top, Boar's Hill,

Oxford.

 

June 6th. 1926

 

Dear Thompson:

 

Many thanks for letting me see the enclosed cutting which I return. I think you may claim to have had a hand in the good work.

 

We have now sold nearly 820 copies of "The Other Side of the Medal" and we have about 180 copies left. It is still selling fairly steadily at something like 40 or 50 copies a month. If this rate of sale continues within the next six months the first edition will be sold out. I do not know what you feel about the advisability of keeping the book in print if this happens. My own impression is that it is the kind of book which will drop to a sale of about 5 or 6 copies a month but go on for quite a time at that. That, of course, means that we should probably lose something by reprinting. But I should be influenced considerably by your own wishes on the subject.

 

Yours sincerely, | Leonard Woolf [signature]

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Source: MS 2750/487/21

Letter from Leonard Woolf to Edward Thompson (06/06/1926)

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Leonard Woolf returns a cutting Edward Thompson had sent him and discusses a potential reprint of The Other Side of the Medal.

Typescript letter signed by Woolf