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Sept. 20th 1926 letter from N.D. to Prof. Potter
Oct. 6th 1926 " to N.D. from Winship
Oct. 11th 1926 telegr. to N.D. " Harvard
Oct. 11th 1926 letter to N.D. " Alfred C. Potter
Novvem. 22nd 1926 " to N.D. " Alfred C. Potter

"Harvard University Library"

June 27th 1948 letter to N.D. from G.W. Cottrell jr.
June 14th 1949 " to N.D. " "

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS

27 May 1948

Norman Douglas, Esq.
Isola Capri
Naples, Itayl

Dear Mr Douglas,

It was very considerate of you to give the Harvard Library first opportunity for the publication of the Zicari article, and I wish very heartily that we might reciprocate. Salandra is obviously neglected as well as important. However, after considerable discussion and consultation Mr Metcalf (the Librarian) and I find ourselves uncertain as to the efficacy of a translation of the Zicari article in furthering the matter. There are already your own *Atlantic Monthly* article, the chapter in *Old Calabria*, and di Pilato's brochure of 1934, all stemming from Zicari. We are inclined to feel that a fresh examination of the Salandra text in the light of the entire hexaemeral tradition as recently studied might do more to place Salandra in due relation to Milton. With these doubts, we accordingly do not feel justified in undertaking the publication of the translation. I can assure you, however, that it was only after long consideration that we made such a decision, and then only with the greatest reluctance, our reluctance heightened not only by your own thoughtfulness but by the awareness of the importance an article from your pen would have for the reputation of our periodical. We are full of regret on many counts.

You ask whether, if unable to publish the article, we might suggest an alternative in this country. I am afraid we have no really good candidate. I don't suppose the *Atlantic* would care to follow up the earlier article with this translation, but it is possible, and I should be glad to forward it if you so instruct me.

I should add that I received the postcard noting the erratum, and have made the correction in the typescript.

I discovered that Harvard has a copy of the Venice, 1818, edition of Rolli's *Paradiso Perduto*, with page numbers corresponding neatly to Zicari's references. We apparently, however, lack a copy of Zicari's article, either in the *Album*

BURSAR'S OFFICE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U.S.A., Nov. 27, 1926

Norman Douglas
c/o T. Cook & Son
Florence, Italy

Dear Sir:

I enclose KIDDER, PEABODY & CO.'S
First of Exchange, No. B60831, drawn to your order
on Baring Bros. & Co., Ltd., London
for £100 in payment of your bill
against Harvard College Library dated Nov. 5.

Please sign and return the enclosed receipt, and
oblige,

R EM
$487.

Bursar.

Harvard College Library

WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian.

ALFRED C. POTTER, Assistant Librarian.

T. FRANKLIN CURRIER, Assistant Librarian.

WALTER B. BRIGGS, Assistant Librarian.

Cambridge, Mass.,

October 11, 1926.

Mr. Norman Douglas
c/o Thomas Cook & Son
Via Tornabuoni
Florence, Italy

Dear Mr. Douglas:

I received, a few days ago, your letter of
September 10 offering us a copy of Salandra's "Adamo
Caduto" and yesterday I cabled you accepting the offer.
This letter is to confirm the cable and to thank you
for bringing the book to our notice. This title was on
a list of Milton Sources that I had with me when I was
in Italy last winter and I remember that Mr. Orioli
pointed out that title and said it was one that I
should probably never find, so you may believe I am
especially glad to secure it through your good offices.
I would ask you to send the book by registered mail
addressed to the Harvard College Library, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, U.S.A., as on the inclosed label. If
at the same time you would send us a bill for the £100
for which you are offering the book, it will be paid
immediately upon receipt of the volume by a draft from
the College Bursar.

I note that in your article on Salandra in
your "Old Calabria" you state that the 1818 edition of
Rolli's translation of "Paradise Lost" probably does

Harvard College Library

Cambridge, Mass.,

October 6, 1926.

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

Dear Mr. Douglas:

Mr. Potter showed me your letter of September 20,
and I have claimed the privilege of answering it in
order to make my regretful apologies for having allowed
our embryo acquaintanceship to lapse.

Obviously we want your copy of the 1643 Salandra,
although I do not at the moment know where we are going
to find the money to pay for it. Please give us a little
time to turn around and see where we can find it. I am
going to New York the last of the week and will try to
find some friend of the Library who is interested in
Italian literature with the necessary spare change in
his pocket.

By one of those curious coincidences Mr. Potter
was amusing himself last evening in checking up a list
of your books in Dobell's last catalogue and checking
those that we lack, so you see, you do not need to ex-
plain who you are even if the letter did not come my way.

Give my best regards to Orioli, and believe me

GPW/B