Item 7 - Letter from R. W. Chapman to R. B. McKerrow

Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Discusses the sizes of the type.

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Transcript

The Clarendon Press, Oxford
30:6:26

My dear McKerrow

Mitto secundas intentiones. Do you say that the chapter-titles shd now be taken down one size? Something depends on their average length.

In this Style, 360 pages, dont {2} 84 appendix. I dont know why I am so Macaronic this morning.

Yrs
R. W. Chapman

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At the head is the reference ‘3249’. There is a tick in the bottom right-hand corner.

{1} ‘I send our second attempt’ (Lat.), i.e. probably Add. MS. a. 355/3/6.

{2} ‘of which’ (Fr.).