Item 30 - Postcard from L. F. Powell to R. B. McKerrow

(Oxford.)—Is glad that McKerrow is planning a second edition already, and points out an error in the first. Is doubtful about setting up from dictation.

(Undated. Postmarked 24 Apr. 1928.)

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Transcript

There are no corrections in Mod. Phil. The notice is entirely descriptive.

I am glad to hear that you are preparing a second edition already. I expect you have noticed that on p. 38 you give 1520 as the date of Badius’s later device & on p. 39 as 1530. I don’t remember any other misprints.

I am very doubtful about setting-up from dictation. I think that ‘within a Parenthesis’ is certainly a marginal direction. Quite recently I marked a word to be printed in italics by writing (it) {1}—the form I use—in the margin. The compositor set up it.

Yrs
L.F.P.

Similarly I have seen ‘over’ in the text, etc. etc.

[Direction:] Dr R. B. McKerrow. | R.E.S. | 44 Museum Str. | W.C.1

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Postmarked at Oxford at 6.15 a.m. on 24 April 1928.

{1} ‘it’ is ringed in the MS.