OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

114 FIFTH AVENUE

July 2, 1937

Dear Mr. Douglas:

Our London office are extremely anxious to have "Old
Calabria" in the World's Classics in England and they wrote to
F. J. Warburg of Martin Secker, who have the rights of "Old
Calabria," offering them twenty guineas advance, 1d per copy
royalty for the first 20,000, and 2d thereafter. This is more
than the usual royalties for this series in England. They re-
ceived the following reply, which seems to me highly unnecessary:

"Thank you for your letter of June 16th putting
before us the royalty terms which you could offer
for Norman Douglas' OLD CALABRIA in the World's
Classics. Even had we been willing to let the
book go the terms you offer are not sufficiently
tempting and we must decline them."

I am sorry to trouble you and hope very soon to see your
introduction, so that we can send the book to the printer as soon
as possible.

Norman Douglas, Esq.
c/o Thomas Cook
Via Tornabuoni
Florence, Italy