ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.25 x 8, Piers Court letterhead, November 6. Letter to "Mr. Brayhooke," in part: "I am afraid that my answer to your appeal for funds must be a refusal. This is not because I do not admire your enterprise & tenacity in maintaining publication…I cannot afford to give much money away. Although I am prosperous on paper I suffer from the politicians' process of changing gold to base metal. When I have paid my taxes I have enough to support & educate my family, with a very little over for 'good-works.' I have to examine any application (of which I get a dozen a week) with great care. Should I give you £190 if it means giving so much less to someone in penury, to the Catholic Schools Fund, to my own struggling parish? I enjoy many of the 'little reviews,' yours particularly, but are they a necessary object? I feel that they were of great value in the days of authoritative reviews. Those days are past. Have we yet reached the point of defeat at which the regular army is disbanded and the war becomes merely a series of guerilla actions? I don't think so. There are still old established magazines, such as the Month & the Tablet. As long as they exist I think it is the duty of writers, particularly of young writers of whom I am no longer one, to force themselves into, & influence, them. There is now no great bubbling up of talent that needs encouragement. The editors of the old papers have tongues hanging out for new writers." In fine condition, with a few small stains, and toning along the bottom edge.
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