Typed Letter Signed ('Geoffrey Dawson') from George Geoffrey Dawson, editor of The Times, urging Sir Vincent Wilberforce Baddeley to 'look elsewhere' for someone 'in the matter of the Oxford House'.

1p., 4to. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He is reluctant to refuse Baddeley's request, but he knows 'from old experience how impossible it is to pay consistent attention to anything else while one is editing The Times. When I was originally approached in the matter of the Oxford House, I was, to a great extent, my own master. Now I am not, and I can imagine that I might of necessity be an absentee, even for quarterly meetings, while, as to paying any attention to Oxford House in between, it would be quite out of the question.' In the circumstances he hopes that Baddeley will make his position clear at the meeting, 'and try to find someone who would be of greater service. If in spite of this you persist, then, of course, I will do it, but my feelings on the subject are quite plain and genuine, and I am clear that you had very much better look elsewhere.'