"Thank you for your letter of 12 May. Luckily I met Professor Myres today, and he was asking about your book, so I took the opportunity of telling him your difficulties about length..."

"I am at present getting the Printer to estimate what length your book will make in type. The Printer, by the way, is the Mr. Johnson with whom you corresponded five years ago..."

"The Holiday shuts down on us tomorrow, but I must get a letter off to you first. I have just had a report from the Printer, which shows that your book works out, when the technical expert takes it in hand..."

"I think you will like to see a specimen of the type we are using for your book. I think it is pretty easy to read and it is, in fact, the type we have used for quite a number of junior schoolbooks..."

"I entirely agree with you, and though I fear the difficulties may prove insurmountable, I am asking the Printer to see whether we cannot use the bolder type, and still satisfy the demands of economy..."

"Do you like the attached specimen better than the last one I sent you? It is the same fount[sic] of type as we used for Mrs. Hamilton's Greece, but one size smaller..."

"My idea was that the 5 full page maps should take the place of the sketch maps that you suggest, or rather, I simply meant that I thought the equivalent of about 5 pages might be devoted to maps..."

"Many thanks for your letter. I must say that I should like the larger type, and am in favour, therefore, of omitting the Chapters of Summary. Not counting the Epilogue there are three of these..."

"I am very sorry not to have written you before about Chapter XXVI on the Coming of Christianity. [...] While I was away Mr. Collins, whom you will remember meeting at Amen House, consulted no less than three advisors, whom we can trust as unprejudiced, about the chapter..."

"[...] I have been reading your chapter again myself, I have studied the options of our three advisors, and I have talked the matter over again with Mr. Collins. Apart from one or two very minor details, the difficulties are concentrated in the beginning of the second sentence..."