Typed Letter Signed to Grant Richards, publisher.

Writer on Wine. One page, 4to, chipped, fold marks, yellowed but text clear. "Your inference with regard to that particular appendix is quite correct. The publishers did get cold feet and the appendix, to my considerable disgust, was omitted. / Apparently Messrs. Routledge felt that the British libel laws made publication of the facts with regard to dishonest shippers somewhat hazardous. I, myself, feel that a dishonest wine merchant could scarcely care to come before a British jury with a demand for damages when all that has been said concerning him was that he had been convicted of fraud several times by the French Courts./ However, as you realize, of course, the responsibility for such a thing would lie with the publishers, and the publishers in this case prefer to play safe." Prob. talking about Schoonmaker, Frank and Marvel, Tom, "The Complete Wine Book". London, George Routledge, 1935. Richards, the publisher, has drafted a reply in pencil on the verso of this letter, writing as an author not a publisher. He sympathises.