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Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Madan has praised McKerrow’s book, and he himself has been recommending it in America.

(With an envelope.)

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The Clarendon Press, Oxford
1 November 1927

My dear McKerrow

Madan writes: ‘a really first-rate book: never runs away from difficulties’. I have just come back from America, where I impressed upon various people that the book ought to get into a fair number of American libraries, where they are apt to have departments of bibliography.

Yours sincerely
R W Chapman

R. B. McKerrow Esq.

[Direction on envelope:] R. B. McKerrow Esq. | c/o Sidgwick and Jackson | 44 Museum St | W.C.

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Typed, except the signature. At the head is the reference ‘3249’. The envelope was postmarked at Oxford at 8.30 p.m. on 1 November 1927.

Add.MS.b/60/184 is signed as sent by Parker 'for Mr Madan'

Brasenose College, Oxford.—Comments in detail on An Introduction to Bibliography.

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Brasenose College | Oxford
Jan. 7. 1928

Dear Mr McKerrow,

I bought your Introduction to Bibliography directly it came out, of course, but have been a good deal delayed in reading it, by other calls on my time.

The book is a standard work from the day of publication, and is very well arranged and clearly written. I had always valued your former Notes on Bibliographical Evidence, from the fact that you, like Reusens in his Paléographie {1}, never run away from a difficulty, but face it, successfully or not.

I have put down a few notes, since sooner or later new editions will come out, and you may like the impressions, on matters of detail only, of an independent reader.

I am
Very truly yours
F. Madan.

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{1} Edmond Reusens, Eléments de paléographie (Leuven, 1899).

(Place of writing not indicated.)—‘McKerrow’s book is awfully good, really.’