Typed Letter Signed ('Basil Blackwell') to Secker.

4to: 1 p. Ten lines of text. Heavily stained, but a neat link between two giants of the twentieth-century British book trade. 'I give myself the pleasure of saluting you, I really believe for the first time'. He is happy for the opportunity of telling Secker how much he admired his 'flair and enterprise in earlier years'. He hopes he 'may write as firmly and with as lively a mind as you in six years' time'. 'Alas that we must disappoint you': the books Secker has requested are all out of print. 'Just possibly one or more may come into our hands secondhand. If so, I hope we may be able to offer you theh benefit of them.' Across the head of the letter is an illustrated view down Broad Street, Oxford, with the Sheldonian on the right and Blackwell's on the left.