LINDSAY DRUMMOND LIMITED

PUBLISHERS

2 GUILFORD PLACE
LONDON
W.C. 1

Telephone :
HOLBORN 1421/2

27th November 1946.

Cablegrams :
LINMOND, LONDON

Norman Douglas Esq.,
7 Unghia Marina,
Isola Capri,
Prov. Napoli.

Dear Norman Douglas,

Many thanks for your letter of the 20th. I
am very glad to hear that you have received the six
copies of Late Harvest and that you liked the appea-
rance of the book. I am looking forward very much
to getting reviews.

I will see that copies of the book are sent
to friends whose addresses you have given me. The
first edition has gone very well and we have not got
a great many copies left.

Directors:

LINDSAY DRUMMOND
PATRICK M. SYNGE
I. M. CARLISLE
WILFRID J. M. SYNGE
PEGGIE MATHESON

LINDSAY DRUMMOND LIMITED

PUBLISHERS

Telephone :
HOLBORN 1421/2

11th October 1946.

Directors:

Cablegrams :
LINMOND, LONDON

Norman Douglas, Esq.,
c/o British Consulate-General,
Naples.

Dear Norman Douglas,

I feel very guilty for not having answered your letter of September 20th
before. Actually, I was waiting to know definitely the date of publication
of **Late Harvest**. I am afraid there has been an extra delay over the printing
of the jacket as this has gold design on it which took longer than I expected.
However, we are getting all copies next week and are planning to publish on the
28th. I will have your six copies sent to you to Naples through the **foreign
office bag**.

I am glad to hear that you have had such fine weather. It is lovely here
now, but rather cold. I hope you are enjoying yourself staying with David
Jeffreys. He is a great friend of Patrick Synge, and I liked him very much
when I saw him here. Please give him my kind regards, and thank him for his
letter, to which Patrick Synge replied.

We are all very well here, but production delays and general worries are
not good, and if anything, worse.

2 GUILFORD PLACE
LONDON
W.C.I

Telephone:
HOLBORN 1421/2

14th May 1947

Directors:
LINDSAY DRUMMOND
PATRICK M. SYNGE
I. M. CARLISLE
WILFRED J. M. SYNGE
PEGGIE MATHESON

Cablegrams:
LINMOND, LONDON

Norman Douglas, Esq.,
7 Unghia Marina,
Isola, Capri,
Naples.

Dear Norman Douglas,

It was very nice to hear from you. I think we should be able to get your note for the second edition into the preliminary pages without difficulty. We certainly are planning to do a second printing of the book which I hope we can get out this autumn. We are very satisfied with the way the book has gone.

We are full of all kinds of problems and difficulties here which seem to increase and lately the sales of books have rather declined, but I think it is partly seasonal.

I am planning to get out to Italy with my wife and daughter in July but I am afraid there is little chance of my being able to get further south than Rome, as we are going to be most of the time in Venice. I hope you are enjoying life in Capri and I am sure you must be glad to get there again.

LINDSAY DRUMMOND LIMITED

PUBLISHERS

2 GUILFORD PLACE
LONDON
W.C.1

Telephone :

HOLBORN 1421/2

1st July 1948

Directors :

LINDSAY DRUMMOND

PATRICK M. SYNGE

I. M. CARLISLE

WILFRID J. M. SYNGE

PEGGIE MATHESON

Cablegrams :

LINMOND, LONDON

Dear Norman Douglas,

I have recently had a letter from Cedric Dover, who is now in America, asking me to send you two copies of *Late Harvest* and he will be very grateful to you if you would sign them. One of them is for your old friend Carl Van Vechten who Dover says sends his usual "hearts and flowers". The other copy is for Cedric Dover himself and he wants me to remind you that you came to dinner with him in the summer of 1941 with Nancy Cunard and Roger Senhouse.

I am sending you the two copies of the books under separate cover and I enclose herewith international postage coupons for two shillings towards the return postage. I shall be glad if you will send back the copies to me and I will then forward them on to America.

I hope you are keeping well. The book trade is passing through a difficult time and sales have fallen off considerably during the past months, but then the general situation all over the world seems pretty grim.

LINDSAY DRUMMOND LIMITED

PUBLISHERS

2 GUILFORD PLACE
LONDON
W.C.1

Telephone:
LD/AB HOLBORN 1421/2

3rd September 1948

Cablegrams:
LINMOND, LONDON

Norman Douglas Esq.,
7 Unghia Marina,
Isola Capri,
Naples.

Dear Norman Douglas,

Since I got your letter of August 16th we have
been considering your proposal that we should reprint
your article in the August number of LIFE AND LETTERS
in a special limited and numbered edition at a high
price.

Though we would of course very much like to do
another book of yours, I am afraid that at the present
moment the market for limited editions is a very diffi-
cult one and I doubt whether as general publishers we
should get away with one, even with your name.

We did some time ago arrange to do a small limited
edition of the Rilke poem, but the response so far has
been very disappointing. I think, therefore, it would
be best if you could get a private press who specialises
in that kind of publication to undertake it, and I would
be glad to advise you about it, though no doubt you
would want to have it arranged through Willie King.

I hope you are well. I am feeling very much in
need of a holiday and am going off on Monday to Ireland
for about three weeks. I wish I could get some of
your sun. All goes well here, but trade is very much
depressed.