1887-08-11 to Francis Lowrey
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1887-08-11 to Francis Lowrey
Autograph letter signed, National Library of Ireland, 195 words
[Edited for paragraph breaks, capitalization, spelling and punctuation.]
[Thursday, 11 August 1887]
My dear Lowrey
I think you will be pleased with the 3rd installment of the Confessions; I like it better than what has gone before.
Your printers are such queer people, they lose my proofs and they rewrite my stuff; I am almost afraid to send you the MS for if anything happened to it it would be useless to ask me to rewrite, I couldn't rewrite it if you gave me 1000£; I trust you will warn the printers and beg of them to be careful; I shall be on hot bricks until I receive the proofs.
There will be very little to correct in this, I have gone through the MS carefully. Send me the agreement[1] I wrote to you about yesterday.
Yours very truly
George Moore
On page 45 of the proofs which I return there is an error which I have corrected three times but in vain. Will you call the printer's attention to it? As it stands it is sheer nonsense.
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[1] On 12 August 1887 the Sonnenschein firm wrote to George Moore:
"Dear Sir, — Confessions of a Young Man. Overriding our former agreement with respect to this book, we have today arranged as follows: — 1. That you shall be paid £40 for your contribution of this series of articles to Time — 2. That we shall reissue the articles as a 6/ book in an edition of 3000-copies, for which we shall pay you the sum of £50 on delivery of MS. for bookform and £50 two months after publication (say £100 in all) — 3. That we shall have the sole right of sale of copies of the book until our stock of 3000 copies is exhausted or for a period of three years from publication whichever is the longer period but that otherwise the copyright be and remain your sole property. 4. Any arrangements for further copies after the exhaustion of our 3000 to be made subsequently to this in the form of a new agreement; but you have the right to decline any new arrangement." [MS Allen and Unwin]