1 1922. at
Cuttle-brook House
Thame
Oxon. My dear Russell My sisters can publish anything from ten to say thirty
thousand words. My Four Years which they publish in October is about
twenty thousand and my Reveries was over thirty thousand. I think it
would be best if you could let them have a whole section, rether than
selections. Their subscribers will pay a higher price than the readers
of the ordinary editions. I like I think to feel that they have the
first edition of something. For instance though my Four Years will
be trebled in size and extended to ten or fifteen years instead of four
that little work will still be the first edition. Perhaps it would still
be the first edition of your selection but I am not quite clear on the
point. Perhaps you might let them have what you have written up to date,
and call it part 1. You would find a stimulus in the doing of the rest
to have so much published & talked of. Now a matter of immediate interest to myself. Have you
republished those old pamphlets--The Hero in Man, & some pamphlets
in which you speak of the Bible stories having taken away the sacredness
of the soil? Do you remember the dates of their publication? I have
your books but they are in Oxford & I dont want to make an expedition
there till I know whether these pamphlets are in your book of essays.
If they are not I can get them in the Bodleian probably though not
certainly. I shall probably contrast them with Eglinton's Essays on
the Remnant , & between the two get an exposition of Unity & Culture, as
against Unity of Opinion which Nationalist Ireland preferred Yrs ever
W.B. Yeats