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February 7th 1917
Dear Mr. Joyce
Many thanks for your telegram and card. The books came from the
binders yesterday afternoon and your twelve presentation copies were sent
off at once. The review copies for London papers will be delivered by hand
tomorrow morning: those for post went off this afternoon. I will send you
the three copies soon but I find they will have to go through an agent
having a permit. The book rate to Switzerland is fourpence per pound; not
more than four pounds can be sent in one package and there is no reduction
in the rate for weights above a pound. As each book, with wrappings,
weighs just a pound this works out at fourpence a copy for whatever
numbers are sent. It would not be fair for you to pay the whole of this
&
if you buy a few dozen copies, we should halve it at any rate. I am told
now that the trade price for a dozen copies should be 3/6 per copy and for
smaller numbers 4/— per copy and that to every dozen copies one
must
be added free.
Mr. Pound has secured two or three promises of reviews and I have
one or two. Mr. H. G. Wells declines to write a review himself —
he
has not the time he says — but promises to speak about the book to
the
editor of the Nation (formerly the Speaker). I
expect
you would like to see all the notices in full would you not? | With kind
regards | Yours sincerely
