Item 23 - Letter from R. W. Chapman to R. B. McKerrow

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Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Discusses the price of the book and the size of the first printing.

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Transcript

The Clarendon Press, Oxford
23:7:27

My dear McKerrow

1. We will send the t.p.

2. I wrote to you some days ago about the price. {1} We can’t do 12/6, & I think we may as well go to 18/-. I don’t think the difference between 16/- (or even 15/-) & 18/- will deter many.

3. And how many shall we print? I think 1500 a minimum (we shd sell 500 quickly, 50 a year for a few years, & then 30?) and 2000 a maximum.

4. I don’t think you need get a second loan for the Strike. {2}

Yours sincerely {3}
R W Chapman

R. B. McKerrow Esq.

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At the head is the reference ‘3249’.

{1} See Add. MS. a. 355/3/21.

{2} The reading of this sentence is uncertain.

{3} This word is a mere scribble.