Box 2

"Thank you for your letter. We shall be happy to conduct negotiations for translations of your books, but not at what you call the 'usual commission' of 10%..."

"Thank you for your letter. With reference to the above I am willing to pay to the Oxford University Press for negotiations 20% of any sum that may accrue from sales..."

"Mr. Milford agrees to your suggestion of 20% to us for the Norwegian trnaslations if they eventuate. I will let you know about that in due course."

"I want to do some revision of Books I, III, and IV for incorporation into translations, and if agreement is reached, will put it in hand at once..."

"I am not quite sure from your letter whether the revision you speak of will affect the English books as well as the proposed translations. If it will, I shall be glad to have the corrections as soon as possible..."

"I believe that The World's Family would be the better for considerable revision; the world had moved a good deal since 1923, when it was written..."

"[...] It surprises me that I have not yet received for consideration any details with reference to the negociations[sic] with the Norwegian publisher..."

"If there had been anything to tell you, you would have been told. By this time nothing ought to surprise you. We have heard no more from the Norwegian publisher..."

"I have never heard of a percentage on foreign sales except in the case of big authors, whose books sell."

"We have at last heard from the Norwegian publishers. They make various excuses, and ask us to extend the date of their option until September 30th..."