Two Autograph Letters Signed to Sir R.L. Harmsworth about the publishing history of Little Goody Two Shoes. With part of a substantial letter from [F.Contes?] on the same subject

Three pages, 4to, good condition. Harmsworth has obviously consigned two copies of the History of Little Goody Two Shoes to Dobell for evaluation and Dobell is now returning them with a learned disquisition on the publishing history of the work. He discusses the advertising and other background of the Newbery imprint, speculation on the rights being sold to a syndicate of booksellers (explaining worsening quality of printing), speculation on the undated one being pirated. He cites a memorandum by a British Library principal Librarian, J. White in his possession that his grandfather was the author of Tommy Trip, Giles Gingerbread, and Goody Two-Shoes. [Harmsworth has marked two sections with a blue pencil.] (23 Jan. 1926) He's received Harmsworth's letter about Goody Two-Shoes, and had formed the impression that the undated edition was a pirated reprint of the first edition .... WITH: Part of an Autograph Letter Signed [F. Contes?], headed Beaufort House Chelsea, SW3, two pages, 4to, discussing the authorship and publication history of Little Goody Two-Shoes. The blue pencil has again been wielded (presumably by Harmsworth), and in a pencilled note referring to a mention of a copy in the letter, Harmsworth[?] asks Was this returned to the Bookseller from whom we had it on approval. I cannot trace it here.