Item 38 - Letter from Kenneth Sisam to R. B. McKerrow

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Add. MS a/355/3/38

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Letter from Kenneth Sisam to R. B. McKerrow

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  • 21 June 1928 (Creation)

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McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees (1872-1940), bibliographer and literary scholar
(1872-1940)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Suggests arrangements for managing American demand in advance of a new impression.

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The Clarendon Press, Oxford
21st June, 1928.

Dear Mr. McKerrow,

Many thanks for your letter of 18th June. We shall easily manage the additional corrections, and adjust the prefatory note.

This is the position:—

We have about 300 copies of the first impression left; but we have just had an order from our New York Branch for 250, being their estimated autumn demand. I have suggested cutting down to 150, so that we shall not have American buyers complaining that a later form is on sale in England. In that case we could tide over till October, and I should have the new impression ready for issue on 1 September, but should hold it until booksellers were safely cleared. We should print in July.

Does this meet your views?

Yours sincerely,
Kenneth Sisam

R. B. McKerrow Esq.,
Enderley,
Little Kingshill,
Great Missenden,
Bucks.

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Typed, except the signature. At the head are the reference ‘L.B. 5889/K.S.’ and, elsewhere, the letter ‘C.’

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