"I'm sorry that I overlooked answering your query before; please do give my name to the person who is collecting your books."

"I'm not really surprised at Harper's Row remaindering The Telling. This seems to be the general practice now."

"What would you think of signing and numbering 100 copies of The Telling? This would be rather unusual; sort of a limited, signed edition after the fact, but we should be able to sell quite a few..."

"I'm afraid that signing labels won't do. Book collectors frown on this practice."

"The manuscripts are on offer to a University Library, but a decision has not yet been made. The reason for the delay is funds."

"I'm afraid I have bad news about the manuscripts. The University Library that wanted to buy them couldn't find a donor."

"I've decided not to list The Telling in my catalogue of lady writers of the 20th century. The reason is that if we are succesful in selling the signed editions..."

"I delayed answering because I had already made arrangements to see Lola Szladits on another matter and had planned to bring the typescripts to her attention then. We had our meeting yesterday and Dr. Szladits has expressed interest in purchasing them for the Berg Collection."

"I'm enclosing copy for the flyer for the signed edition of The Telling. I've kept this as simple as possible as this flyer is meant for dealers primarily."

"On the copyright page you also changed essay to portion. I think that you had better send me a further 25 copies as the flyer will go out next week..."