"[...] I am very glad you have mentioned again the plan that you first put to us in March, for a companion Book of Modern Peoples..."

"Our educational people all have views about your proposal for A Book of Modern Peoples, and those views are on the whole decidedly favourable..."

"Thank you very much for your letter and for the corrected proofs. I am much pleased and honoured by your very friendly reference to me in your preface, and the new paragraph seems to be quite in order..."

"Thank you for your letter of 6 October. I think it would be best for you to compile the Index. We hope to publish in January 1931."

"Thank you for your letter. As a matter of fact I had already received from the Printer proofs of pages 1-128 with some queries in them, and as these queries were of a trifling matter, I had settled them myself..."

"Thank you for your letter. It is very odd about the proofs, for I had pages 1-128 in my hands as I wrote my letter to you, and the dispatch clerk is convinced that they were all included in the envelope..."

"Many thanks for your letter and enclosures. Your Index looks excellent, and you shall have proofs as soon as possible. The usual arrangement about the Index is that the author is expected to do it..."

"I am afraid your Index is too long for the space available. There are only 4 pages, and as it stands at present it will make 6 pages, in a smaller type than the Index to Hamilton's Greece..."

"Thank you for your letter. I meant you to have seen our corrected version of the Index before it was set up, and I am sorry that this was not done..."

"I was very happy when I read your letter of appreciation and learnt that you are pleased with the book..."