Letter from T. Fisher Unwin to H. Watt

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Title

Letter from T. Fisher Unwin to H. Watt

Type

LETTER

Creator

T. Fisher Unwin

Description

Intended agreement with Dent provides handover of all bound stocks and quires of 1/- editions at invoiced manufactured price; Dent will pulp or use for his own 1/- series; requests author forgo royalties on cash received from Dent for stock; lists approximate stocks: The Grey Man (569 bound, 2900 quires), The Lilac Sunbonnet (218 bound, no quires), The Raiders (no bound, no quires); would send quires immediately to Dent but continue selling bound copies until Dent's publication date with author getting usual royalties; Dent undertakes to print at least 20,000 of each volume; for Grey Man and Raiders author agrees to Unwin retaining 25% of proceeds from sale to Dent

Date

1914-01-29

Subject

publishing, Dent agreement, 1/- editions, stock transfer, royalties, The Grey Man, The Lilac Sunbonnet, The Raiders, quires, bound copies

Identifier

APW_1914_209

Contributor

H. Watt c/o A.P. Watt (recipient), Dent, S.R. Crockett (mentioned)

Language

English

Coverage

London

Collection

Citation

T. Fisher Unwin, “Letter from T. Fisher Unwin to H. Watt,” S.R.Crockett Museum, accessed March 19, 2026, https://srcrockett.scot/themuseum/items/show/1319.

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