"[...] I have talked over this question of the type again with one of our overseas managers, and I am clear that we must stick to the same size of type as before..."

"I have heard from our reader, who has no objections to his name being given to you. He is Mr. H.A. Davies, Headmaster of the Secondary School at Treharris, Glam..."

"Many thanks for your letter. I am off for three weeks holiday next week, so I shall not personally be able to do anything more on your book until the end of August..."

"[...] I think your suggestion for maps are excellent. If you will give us instructions about each I should like to put the drawing in hand at once..."

"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..."