"The Observer has made an offer of £10,000 for the serial rights in your autobiography which I have told them is inadequate and it is being considered by the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times. From the latter paper I had every hope of getting a really substantial offer, but they are uneasy about the extent to which any material in the book has appeared before, either serially or in your own books, and asked me whether it would be possible to give them an indication of the proportion of new and old matter in the Autobiography."