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I received yesterday a letter from Mr. Huebsch (dated August 25th)[1] in which he said that he was waiting to hear from your agent before having the book set up: he was proposing some amendments in the contract that had been sent to him by your agent and if the latter accepted these and cabled to that effect he would have the printing put in hand at once. He asked if I would see Mr. Pinker and urge him to give the matter immediate attention. I cabled therefore and learnt that he had cabled at once on receiving Mr. Huebsch's letter yesterday morning, accepting the amendments.[2]

Unfortunately, Mr. Huebsch had not, when he wrote on August 25th, received from Mr. Marshall the corrected copy of the novel. He had just been told that Mr. Marshall had gone to Quebec and he was writing to him that day. As it seemed to me doubtful whether he would succeed in getting hold of the thing I decided to send out the corrections afresh and I posted to him last night cuttings containing the corrections you sent for chapters III & IV. Today I have made corrections in the other chapters and have dispatched these also to him. I think I have made most of the corrections you would wish to have but in case you should like to make them again yourself I am sending to you today by express post cuttings of chapters I, II, and also V. Mr. Huebsch is anxious to hurry the affair on in order to include the book in his autumn list but your corrections of these chapters would no doubt reach him in time for the reader to use them when correcting the proofs.

Many thanks for your letter. It pleased me greatly that you should have remembered my birthday: please accept my best thanks for your very kind wishes. | Yours sincerely