Item 36 - Postcard from J. G. Robertson to R. B. McKerrow

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90 Regent’s Park Road, N.W.1.—Suggests means of increasing the circulation of the Review.

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90 Regents Park Rd., N.W.1.
June 3 1925 {1}

Many thanks. I will do anything I can to help. There must be no question of failing to make good! {2} Could you not get at the English Association? I was disappointed to see that they referred to the R.E.S. in such a cold and colourless way in their last Bulletin. I should have thought it was their first business to give you all the support in their power. Boas might help you here. Would it not be worth the expense to send your circular to all the 6500 members? a goodly proportion of them ought to be among your subscribers. You have, no doubt, circularised all professors of English in the universities of the world; but it might be a good thing to send them—or the most promising of them—a dozen circulars and ask them to bring the journal to the notice of their staff and students. Chambers ought, for instance, to lay a number of the prospectuses on the table of the Engl. library at Univ. Coll. Perhaps he has done so; if not, I will suggest it to him.

Always yours sincerely
J.G.R.

[Direction:] Dr R. B. McKerrow | Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd | 3 Adam St | W.C.2.

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Postmarked at London, N.W.1, at 3.15 p.m. on 3 June 1925. There is also a postmark advertising the British Exhibition, May-October 1925.

{1} The first two figures of the year are printed. The printed address, ‘University College, London’, has been struck through.

{2} The reference is evidently to the financial difficulties mentioned in McKerrow’s circular letter of 1 April (MCKW A3/34).