"I notice that in your new book you have given a title to each of your 4 parts. To print these titles in the text at the beginning of each part would waste space, as it seems to me..."

"Thank you for your letter and for the excellent sketches. We will now get to work."

"Many thanks for your letter of 11 November. Let us certainly have a double-page summary of events in time-chart form as you suggest."

"Many thanks for your letter and for the proofs. We shall set up the chart in type and let you see a proof..."

"Your endpaper is rather a puzzle. I thought it could best be done in type, and delivered it over to the compositors to see what they would make of it..."

"Thank you for your letter. We will reset the time charts and I hope to let you have a proof in about a week's time. They take a good deal of time to make..."

"I am now sending you proofs of the illustrations for A Book of Modern Peoples. There are two or three for which I have not yet succeeded in getting photographs..."

"[...] You are quite right about that Indian Mutiny picture. I shall cut it out as you suggest and substitute something else. I could no doubt get a photograph of the Nile Barrage..."

"Then we will certainly choose the Indian scene. I entirely agree with you about portraits in general..."

"[...] I propose a page showing at the top an early 19th century semaphore station and at the bottom a big wireless station (Leafield or Daventry), to point the contrast..."