"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..."

"[...] I have also been looking through your proofs and one or two points have caught my eye. I quote the page numbers in the original numbering..."

"One other point. Your statement on p.130 (original numbering) about indulgences will, in its present wording, raise a storm from Catholic quarters, and perhaps from some others..."

"[...] I see that some difficulties over abbreviations have arisen in the index. If we spell these out in full in every case, or even in most cases, it will mean a great deal of reshuffling..."

"Many thanks for your letter. If I possibly could, I would certainly get Modern Peoples out before the middle of June, for I can quite see that you do not want it to clash with your novel..."

"I am glad to say that a reprint of your Book of Ancient Peoples will shortly be called for, and I write to ask you whether there are any corrections that you would like made..."

"A well known firm of Norwegian publishers, Fabritius and Sonners Forlag, have applied for the Norwegian rights of a Book of Ancient Peoples and A Book of Modern Peoples..."