May 3 Monday – At 23 Tedworth Square in London, Sam replied to Frank Bliss’s long-awaited letter, not-extant

Now you’re speaking up! Your letter had a virile ring to it. I had concluded weeks ago that your interest in the book was a little pale.

Yes, come over here. I have thought of it fifty times.

The rest of his letter has to do with Bliss talking Chatto into letting him have the Australasia territory through a “house in Sydney” who wanted it, and details of the book and publishing. Sam provided his address but cautioned not to put it on a letter or tell anyone; he gave his cable address

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