[Miron Grindea, editor of the long-lived London literary magazine ‘ADAM International Review’.] Autograph Letter Signed (‘Adam’), advising Philip Dosse of ‘Books and Bookmen’ on the question of applying to Jean-Paul Sartre for a review.

An interesting item, linking the editors of two prominent literary magazines. See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which states, without giving a date, that ‘Chaotic working conditions led to desperation: Grindea sold the title to Frank Cass and retreated to Hove hoping to write his memoirs, but quickly decided he didn't want to and “in agonies of self-flagellation begged Cass to sell back the magazine”’. The recipient Philip Dosse was 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. 2pp, landscape 8vo. In good condition, on blue-grey paper. Signed ‘Adam’. Begins: ‘Dear Mr. Dossé’ [Dosse did not employ the accent] / You really overwhelm me with your unusually generous gestures. Moderato cantabile, please! The more I think of your manifold activities the less I understand how you manage to keep your sanity . . . perhaps you’ll one day let me know the secret!’ He encourages him to write to ‘Sartre’, and gives details of his Paris publisher Gallimard. ‘He is unpredictable and you never can tell, but I doubt whether he reads English well enough to review such a book. Do ask him first – otherwise you risk losing the book. He may not answer your letter at all – in this case I’ll take the liberty of suggesting a Frenchman who writes fluent English.’ He ends by inviting Dosse and ‘some of your collaborators’ to an event at the ICA, and in a postscript writes that he is sending ‘some more copies of the magazine’.