Box 2

"[...] It is necessary for me to send another letter before your answer has arrived to fill out the gaps I spoke about last time. The last part of the printed material has arrived and is already sent back corrected..."

"[...] The whole set-up(?), the print, has now been corrected twice and is now going to be broken into pages. I expect, since you have not written another time, that the triffles of my second letter do not especially urge you..."

"To continue my comments upon your revisions: p. 188 Approved. p. 82-3 Yes; I think that in admiration of the vigour of McCannell's drawing of the horses..."

"Thank you for your letter of the 26th of February. I am glad to hear that it is possible that you will go to Norway once more. And I should be especially glad if you could have parts of a fine journey across the country on a bicycle..."

"Probably you can come to Norway another year, and I perhaps then, too, shall have wider possibilities of seeing you than I should have been likely to this year. I am so sorry you did not come this year..."

"Thank you for your letter, and for the list of queries in respect of the Adventurers. Let me repeat how grateful I am to you for the meticulous care and patience you so willingly give to the translation of my books..."

"I have been thankful for your kind letter and your directions quite a long time now, but the manuscript of 'The Adventurers' came here once more, to be revised another time..."

"[...] Thank you for sending me the list of World's Family alterations. There are not many on which I need comment, but on P. 145 the reference to the length of Columbus's first voyage indicates a very necessary correction..."

"To be quite frank, I am not a 'period history' expert. My work has been along synthetic lines; the effort to build up a proportionate house of history from bricks supplied by experts..."

"[...] The proposed volume (384 pages, of which about a third would be illustrations) is intended for the general public, but I think if it is written simply enough for them it should also fill a need in schools..."