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Mr. Andrew Malcolm,
7 Southover Street,
BRIGHTON,
E. Sussex BN2 2UA
Dear Mr Malcolm,
I am writing with what I imagine may be very disappointing news. Your book proposal came to our editorial meeting with Henry Hardy's full support. I am afraid that we were not convinced enough to ask for a contract to be issued. There were doubts about the market and worries about extent and content. I know that you propose working on the latter, but we would have to see the finished typescript and have it fully refereed before committing ourselves to publish. Even then, there would be considerable commercial and sales problems and I cannot hold out much hope that we would publish.
I would quite understand if you felt unable to undertake the revision without a firm commitment from us.
I must also apologize on behalf of Oxford University Press for the unnecessary raising of your hopes of publication.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Charkin
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