BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 18 MAR. 1937
BRACERS 47196. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
18 March 1937

Dear Warder

The Amberley Papers, published 3 days ago, is having remarkably good reviews, and seems to be found interesting by everybody who reads it. I enclose the reviews in the three most important papers from the point of view of literary criticism. One of them, The Times Literary Supplement, I should like to have back when you have done with it; it is by Lord Ponsonby,2 who was a page to Queen Victoria, but has now ceased to work with the Labour Party because it is too reactionary. The English reviewers do not make much of the American part, such as: “I sat between Mr. A. and Mr. Henry Longfellow the poet. I liked Mr. A.” But I think there must be a certain number of cultured Bostonians who would like the book; it is not for my usual public.

When are you bringing it out?

Yours ever
B.R.

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  [document] Proofread against a microfilm printout of the original.

• 2

  Times Literary Supplement “Two Noble Lives” is the title of Arthur Ponsonby's unsigned review in the TLS, no. 1,832 (13 March 1937): 179. He also published a different, signed review with the same title in The Listener, 17 (24 March 1937): 575. The other two reviews are not specified and can only be guessed at from the long list in B&R.