Apl. 23/80.
Dear O Howells—
If you want this, won’t you either have some of your office-folks copy it—or put it in type—at once, so I can have it in the course of 4 or 5 days? I wrote it to read at a private house next week (among other stuff) for the benefit of a charity. If you will send me 2 proofs, I’ll send one to Chatto myself, & write him a soft-spoken letter & mollify him a little,[ —throu —though] it is through his own carelessness that he is out too late behind us with the new book & therefore has doubtless lost his English copyright.
Ys Ever
Mark.
[remainder in pencil:]
P. S. It may be that this subject has been treated by somebody while we were gone over the water; in which case we will suppress this.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MTHL, 1:302.
Provenance:See Howells Letters in Description of Provenance.
Emendations and textual notes:
—throu —though • —throu | —though [ cancellation begins a line; ‘—though’ begins a new line directly below it ]
