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Henry Hardy, Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP.

Dear Henry,

Many thanks for your phonecall of 20th and letter of 21st May and apologies for my delay in replying. I too am pleased that you are going to do my book, very pleased. Although I have waited for over ten years for this moment to arrive, I confess that my reaction to it has so far been one more of daze than of euphoria. I think that carrying these ideas around in my head for so long has left me rather exhausted; also, there is the knowledge that there is much work still to be done.

With regard to this 'last lap', I think I should explain that for the past eighteen months or so of publisher-hunting, I have hardly looked at the book itself and have hardly picked up a pen, having been involved in a number of quite other activities. It is therefore going to take me a little while (two or three weeks?) to disengage myself from these activities and then re-immerse myself in the philosophy. To this end I am contemplating a move to the peace and quiet of a nearby country house where I will be able to concentrate wholeheartedly on the writing. Please bear with me in all this; I believe the final product will be worth the wait.

I hope I have filled in the Author's Publicity Form satisfactorily. I am not quite sure what is wanted in the blurbs. Let me know if what I have written sounds too bland or too pretentious or whatever. I would, as you can see, prefer to keep the Making Names and add a subtitle. I haven't yet given this much thought, but so far a philosopher's dream of hope is the only line that has stuck. In part this is a reference to details concerning the notions of dreaming and hoping that are due to be highlighted in the revision. How does it grab you? It would be a wonderful irony if the only pre-publication dispute between us were over the book's title, - a final argument perhaps for leaving it as it is!

I look forward to hearing your reactions.

Yours, Andrew Malcolm

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