James Payn

[donnalaguerre]

Please help me fill in the (blanks) on this note from what appears to be the author  James Payn  and (Lovell the Publisher)

I am not finding much on the internet and I would like an idea how much I should list it for.

Thanks.

"  I have made no arrangement with any known Publication?  ________   ____Lovell  for the publication in America ________________________________

Signed by James Payn July 5th 1890.

[sigmapsidelta]

I have made no arrangement with any other publisher/publication ____ ___ _____ for the publication in America of 'The Wind + the Will'

That's about all I can get from it. Those three missing words are just too scrawled.

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[donnalaguerre]

Thanks so much!!!

[argon38]

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@sigmapsidelta wrote:

I have made no arrangement with any other publisher/publication ____ ___ _____ for the publication in America of 'The Wind + the Will'

That's about all I can get from it. Those three missing words are just too scrawled.

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"...any other publisher than Mr Lovell..."

The book is "The Word and the Will," published by the J.W. Lovell Company:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/word-and-the-will/oclc/3122152&referer=brief_results

Almost certainly a printed letter that would have featured in every copy of the book.

[the*bumping*squirrel]

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@argon38 wrote:

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@sigmapsidelta wrote:

I have made no arrangement with any other publisher/publication ____ ___ _____ for the publication in America of 'The Wind + the Will'

That's about all I can get from it. Those three missing words are just too scrawled.

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"...any other publisher than Mr Lovell..."

The book is "The Word and the Will," published by the J.W. Lovell Company:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/word-and-the-will/oclc/3122152&referer=brief_results

Almost certainly a printed letter that would have featured in every copy of the book.

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[argon38]

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@the*bumping*squirrel wrote:

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Almost

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Well, it might not have featured in every copy of the book. It could have been added after pirating problems came to the attention of the author. Conceivably it may indicate a later issue. Thou canst not deny it.