[Israel; Solly Sachs [Emil Solomon Sachs], South African anti-apartheid campaigner, exiled in England.] Typed Letter Signed, thanking Philip Dosse of ‘Books and Bookmen’ for his offer to publish ‘our “Open Letter” to the Prime Minister of Israel’.

27 February 1975. On letterhead of the Committee for Peace in the Middle East. From the papers of Philip Dosse (1925-1980), proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. See ‘Death of a Bookman’ by the novelist Sally Emerson (editor of ‘Books and Bookmen’ at the time of Dosse’s suicide), in Standpoint magazine, October 2018; and Michael Barber, 'What was Books and Bookmen?', Literary Review blog, 18 August 2023. 1p, 4to. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. Reads: ‘Dear Mr. Dosse, / The Chairman of our Committee, Dr. Max Adler, and I send you our warmest gratitude for your offer to publish our “Open Letter” to the Prime Minister of Israel in “Books and Bookmen”, and for sending the last six numbers of the journal.’ Signed, somewhat shakily (he would die the following year), ‘E S Sachs’. Postscript: ‘I have been reading your journal with great interest and I have neglected the voluminous work of the Committee.’ Image on application.