DLA016-0108  Transcription

99, OXFORD GARDENS,

NORTH KENSINGTON, W.10.

9th January 1925.

Dear Sir,

The Editor of “T.P’s & Cassell’s Weekly” has commissioned me to ask if you will be so kind as to form the subject of one of the special articles published under the generic title “In the Days of My Youth”.^[1]

As it would, of course, be putting too great a strain on your good nature to ask you to write it, I am instructed to say that if, as I hope, you will be so gracious as to consent. I will keep any appointment you desire, make elaborate notes of your statement, transcribe them and submit the manuscript to you in typewritten form for your revision as correction.

In this way, you will be able to assure yourself not merely of the accuracy of the statements but to make such alterations as will satisfy you even in the matter of the turning of a phrase.

Faithfully,

Rudolph de Cordova

Editorial Note:

Rudolph de Cordova (1860-1941), Jamaican-born British writer, screenwriter and actor.

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20/12/2017