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I have just received your postcard of the 8th. I am glad you have written to Mr. Richards, for he needs all the pressure we can bring to bear. I have not yet been able to get him to settle the details of the contract. I drafted a contract and sent it to him; but he does not like my draft, and said that he thought the contract should be simply a copy of the other. I do not think this a reasonable view, and it would not meet your wishes on various points, including the American side. He asked me to let him draft an alternative contract and submit it to me, I have been waiting for this and have not yet received it from him, in spite of repeated reminders. You know how difficult he is to pin down. If I call he is never there, and it is the same thing if one tries to get him on the telephone. One is therefore reduced to writing.
I will find out when Mr. Grein[1] returns, and send him a copy of the play. I have relations with the Pioneer Players and with the Manchester Repertory Theatre, but the latter is closed now, as Miss Horniman[2] does not apparently find it possible to keep it going in War time.
I will certainly take back [handwritten above del. take] up your appeal to Mr. Richards about dates.
I have heard from the editor of Poetry to say that they hope to use your poems in their September or October numbers. They would have liked to pay in advance she says, but at the moment Poetry is too poor to be able to do this.
I have not yet received the royalty accounts from Huebsch.
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