"It is quite long since Mr. Woolmer proposed to me the idea of a limited edition of that manuscript material. Publication was scheduled for for The Sping. November was suggested as I remember, as a delivery date of my introduction. 25000 words was given me by how as, roughly, the size of introduction he thought could be commercialy handled for that size of book. I had counted pages, and lines (I mean, indicated about how many lines there were for a page)."

"I think I should answer your last letter because it was I who originally suggested the possibility of publishing the manuscripts that Mr. Woolmer sold for you to the Berg Collection. I saw them briefly as they passed through here, and I liked the bit that I read. But it was after they were gone that we began to discuss the idea of publication--and we then no longer had access to the material."