Part between pp. 94 and 95 - Letter from Paul Maas to W. W. Greg

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Letter from Paul Maas to W. W. Greg

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21 Beaumont Street, Oxford.—Comments on the second part of his review of Greg's Editorial Problem in Shakespeare.

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21 Beaumont St., Oxford, 22. 3. 44.

Dear Dr. Greg,

Our last letters are both of 25. 1., therefore they crossed. I delayed my answer, because I expected the revised proofs {1}. After having waited in vain for a month I cycled to Long Wittenham, only to hear that the revised proofs had been sent to the printer without my Imprimatur. I tried to get at least the obvious mistake ‘printer’ for ‘publisher’ in the last note rectified {2}. This too failed. I am now told that the correction will be executed in a second and more presentable set of offprints of part I + II of my review. Vedremmo.

Thus I must apologize for having exaggerated your agreement with Shaaber; I had confused ‘persuasively’ with ‘convincingly’. I am less sure that I was wrong in interpreting the colophon of F as a kind of signature. Cannot the difference between the colophon and the title page correspond to a change in the ownership? I have not seen any discussion of the subject posterior to 1924.

With many thanks for your kind remarks

Yours sincerely
P. Maas.

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{1} The proofs of the second part of Maas’s review of Greg’s Editorial Problem in Shakespeare for the Review of English Studies, printed in the January 1944 issue.

{2} Greg corrected the mistake in his own copy of the review. See GREG 2/2, p. 94.

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