DLA019-0047  Transcription

Albert E. Marriott, Limited.

Publishers

Directors:

Albert E. Marriott.

R. Dent.

37/38, Golden Square

London W.1.

April 30th, 1930.

M. Roberts Esq.,

3 Fitzjohn Avenue

N.W.

Dear Sir,

Many thanks indeed for your letter of April 30th.,^[1] enclosing a copy of your letter of April 7th which has been mislaid.^[2]

We are prepared to pay Mr de Lazlo a fee of ten guineas for the chapter in the book WORLD PROBLEMS OF TOMORROW.^[3] When Mr Baldry comes to see me again I will go further into the matter of the book about Mr de Lazlo’s [sic] life.^[4]

Yours very truly,

ALBERT E. MARRIOTT LIMITED.

A. E. Marriott

Director.

Editorial Note:

Albert E. Marriott, one of a number of pseudonyms of Netley Lucas (c. 1903-1940), an infamous fraudster and self-proclaimed “aristocrat of crooks” who had, in 1925, authored the best-selling The Autobiography of a Crook.

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27/05/2018