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I have just received your letter of October 31st.[1] I sent you yesterday Mr. Grant Richards' royalty account for "The Dubliners", and no doubt it has reached you by this time.
I have "Exiles" in the office at the moment, and I can have a copy made and sent out to you if you wish, but the only way to do it would be to have it typewritten. If you would like this done, I will put it in hand and get it done as cheaply as possible.
I note your suggestion about the novel;[2] but do you not think it would be better for us to see what comes of the negotiations with Messrs. Duckworth before trying Mons. Conard? Frankly, I doubt if the latter would take up the book on the terms you suggest. He tells me that he is doing quite well with his Continental Library, but he is finding production extremely difficult under present conditions, and his commitments of English novels in the Continental Library monopolise, I think, his energies at the moment.
I tell you this not to crab your plan, but only because I think that it is not promising enough to justify us in abandoning the other. I am hopeful that Messrs. Duckworth will take up the work, but I have learned in these days not to be confident unless the thing is concluded.
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