"I was delighted to get your letter on the corrected Chapter, which I have now had time to show once more to our Educational Department. We are glad that the matter is now settled to our satisfaction, and, I hope, to yours..."

"We shall begin sending you proofs next Friday."

"I have been wondering whether it would be a good thing to put in two or three pages of excercises, test questions, or the like, at the end of your book?..."

"[...] There will be room in the Preliminaries for a Foreword of not more than one page. Your proposal for a companion Book of Modern Peoples is a most interesting one, and we should certainly be very glad to consider it..."

"Many thanks for your letter. I think, in view of what you say, that we had better keep the Epilogue and drop the idea of exercises."

"[...] I will have a look at the extracts from Rawlinson etc. Unless they are pretty long, I don't think there is any need to do more that acknowledge the source."

"I attach a proof of your title page. I should be glad if you would let us know what honorifics or descriptions we may put after your name..."

"Many thanks for your letter. I am changing the imprint of your book to Clarendon Press, in view of what you say, and in order to bring it into line with the majority of our other schoolbooks on Ancient History..."

"One question. Would you prefer your Time Charts to go at the end or at the beginning of the respective Parts?..."

"I should like you to see the pictures in paste-up, in case you have any comments to make, so I am sending you herewith the first 48 pages..."