Woolmer, J. Howard, 1929-

"I hate to write to you with bad news, but I've had to reduce the price for the manuscript material that you sent to me. When I first gave you a price of $3,800 I had only made an estimate of the number of pages involved..."

"The Word Woman manuscript material sold to the Berg Collection consisted of the original typscript, 116 pages, with corrections in your hand. Pages 88 and 89 plus one third of page 87 were missing."

"This is just a note to acknowledge the receipt of the Leaves and the Civilita delle machine."

"I had a telephone call this morning from Dr. Lola Szladits at the Berg Collection. She said that she had recommended purchase of the manuscript material that I had offered to her."

"This is just a note to let you know that I had confirmation from the Berg Collection this afternoon that they will purchase the collection of manuscript material."

"I am in such anguish over this that it is hard for me to report it to you, but it seems that the post office has lost the carton of manuscripts that we sold to the Berg Collection. It was sent to Dr. Szladits on October 17."

"Believe me, Dr. Szladits' telephone call reporting the delivery of the manuscripts was a tremendous relief. Apparently what happened was that the envelope with the label on the outside and the invoice inside (this was well taped on the outside of the package) was torn off by the machinery..."

"On my return I found a letter from Dr. Laura Monti telling me that she wished to purchase the two 'Leaves' at $400. Unfortunately, the Boston Public Library, or her department at least, has no funds and I agreed to hold them for her until May."

"Further to my letter of 3 March, I've just received payment from the NYPL. I'm enclosing my cheque for $2,762.50..."

"I have written to Dr. Monti this week to remind her of her request that I hold the Two Leaves for her until May. As for manuscripts, however, I am not optimistic that the Boston Public Library will be able to raise funds for these, and feel that to offer them is probably a waste of time, but I will mention them to Dr. Monti..."