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Letter from Watt to W. & R. Chambers

Offers 7500-word story for £36 British serial rights; delivery March for complete publication

We are in receipt of your letter of May 11th and note your instructions to send future accounts (from June 30th 1933) for late Mr. S.R. Crockett's…

Will publish Sweetheart Travellers 30th October; printing mustn't be hurried, suits better than 25th October; thought wouldn't require illustration…

Letter from William Brown to Fred A Smith

States Crockett's books disposal not in his hands but publisher's property

Requests Scottish character sketch for Youth's Companion (mixed audience boys/girls); offers £100 per thousand words for 2500-3000 words; full serial…

Kept matter open until Monday last when accepted another offer but as hopes to be able to cancel that will accept Watt's on understanding that stories…

Received letter of yesterday; willing to confine all stories to publication in Yorkshire Post so far as North of England newspapers are concerned with…

Want clear statement of dates on which stories will be available

Regrets accidental delay in responding to April 19th offer of Yeats story; had already booked another story for mentioned period; returns proofs

Letter to Ashcroft Noble

Reciprocal Christmas greetings; recognises Noble's sympathetic hand in The Spectator, 'always does me good'; lives by choice far from the world,…