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I have just received your postcard of the 6th.[1] Messrs. Duckworth have declined the novel, and I am showing it to Werner Laurie. I assume you would rather have it published here than under an arrangement such as your French friend may make?[2] I will hurry the decisions as much as possible, but all publishers and indeed most of the rest of us are short of staff now, and one has to be a little indulgent.
Since writing the foregoing I have received your second card.[3] I will certainly see the editor of the Egoist, and I agree with you that it would be more satisfactory for them to publish the novel than to get it published in France.[4] I have written to Miss Weaver saying that I shall be very glad to see her and discuss the matter, and I will write to you again later.
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