Item 65 - [Draft?] letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Michael Sadler

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Has now consulted most of the contributors [to the "Annual of New Poetry"] about the draft agreement. There is no objection to Trevelyan being the contributors' representative, and this will 'certainly simplify matters'. The main difficulty seems that the agreement currently considers the "Annual" 'more as a book than as an annual magazine', with the implication that if it were not sold out, or if a new edition were published, the copyright for contributions would never revert to the authors. The contributors expected a contract 'more in the nature of a licence to publish [their] poems in this form for a certain period', and could only agree to something of this kind; they also feel that the proposed length of time before payment is too long. In addition, when [Lascelles] Abercrombie first discussed the scheme last year, the suggested division of profits was sixty per cent to the contributors, forty to the publishers; all the contributors have joined on that understanding, and the proposed allocation of fifty-five per cent to the authors cannot be agreed to.