"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..."

"[...] 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..."