Unidad documental simple 62 - Letter from Lauro de Bosis to Lady Frazer

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Rome, Via Due Macelli 66 - Is humiliated to have to keep writing excuses and ask pardon over and over, he has been busy lecturing, occasionally knocked out by an artistic temperament which is 'the only thing that shows the artist in me', has crossed the ocean 3 times in a month; the publisher [Alberto Stock] is a deplorable man and has suffered a health breakdown, which is probably a punishment sent 'by the Gods of the Bough'; the first edition is of 1000 copies, the price is superior to what they thought, has enclosed a royalty check of £10, but asks for what she expects; would like to do an Italian ed. of 'The Origin of Kingship' with another publisher; has begun to work on a book to which he has 'consecrated the next 20 or 25 years of his life: The History of Italian Civilization'.