966
9th April 1915,
C/o Gioacchino Veneziani, Murano, Venice, Italy.
Dear Sir,
I have to thank you for your letter of the 1st inst. just received.[1] I am sorry that you are committed
so
extensively to Mr. Grant Richards but I suppose that cannot now be
helped.[2] You do not say whether the
terms are fixed with Mr. Richards, but if they are not fixed, then would
you not require my services to arrange them with him? If the terms are
fixed by your contract with him, then you would not, of course, require
those books to come under our agreement, unless you wished me to look
after the business. I think, if you wish to exclude the Grant Richards books,
it will be quite sufficient if you make the slight alterations in the draft
agreement which I sent to you,[3]
providing for the exclusion. I shall be glad to have the manuscript of the
play[4] as soon as you care to send it
to me, as I should like to read it, even though it be held over, as you
suggest, until the publication of your novel.
