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MCKW/A/5/25 · Item · 24 June 1937
Part of Papers of R. B. McKerrow

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 44 Museum Street, London, W.C.1.—David Thomas has identified F. Avis of the Camberwell school of printing as ‘the right man for the estimating book’. Avis wishes to write under a pseudonym. Discusses the terms of his contract. The RES goes out on the 28th, as soon as Stacey comes back. Discusses the progress of ‘Drinkwater’ [the third volume of his Collected Poems].

(With envelope.)

MCKW/A/5/26 · Item · 28 June 1937
Part of Papers of R. B. McKerrow

[Alpengasthof, Obernbergersee, Gries am Brenner, Tirol.]—Has no objection to Avis’s book being issued pseudonymously, but would prefer not to mention the fact in the agreement. Hopes RES has gone out today. Asks whether they have received anything from [Lascelles] Abercrombie, and whether Drinkwater’s signature was put on his portrait to Mrs Drinkwater’s satisfaction. They will be leaving on Monday next for Munich. Discusses arrangements for corresponding.

(Letter-head of Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.)