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HOUG/D/D/20/15/encl. No, 4
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Letter from Alexander Macmillan to James Maclehose
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- 22 Aug. 1865 (Creation)
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On printed notepaper, Macmillan and Co... 16 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, W.C., London. - Buchanan cannot publish [David Gray's poems] without Mrs Gray's consent. Macmillan could offer her say £50 for the rights and a royalty per copy sold; no great profits anticipated, but David Gray could be dissociated from Buchanan's mediocrity. The late father's alleged authorisation might be a problem; asks if it is worth wrangling over; perhaps Buchan could edit the poems under supervision to curb his vulgarity. Possible purchase of copyright by David Gray's Glasgow friends. Postscript: might call with [W. Aldis] Wright; 'We are going to walk down from London to Glasgow & beg our way'.
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- Macmillan, Alexander (1818-1896) publisher (Subject)
- MacLehose, James (1811-1885), publisher and bookseller (Subject)
- Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901), poet and novelist (Subject)
- Gray, David (1838-1861), poet (Subject)
- Gray, Ann (b 1812), née Cloggie, mother of poet David Gray (Subject)
- Gray, David (b c 1806), hand-loom weaver, father of poet David Gray (Subject)
- Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar (Subject)