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Mr. Henry Hardy,
Academic Division
Dear Henry,
MALCOLM: Making Names
After your appeal, we discussed the case. It is quite clear that you exhibited extremely bad judgement on the issue in question.
However, it was also clear that you and Will were acting in good faith and were apparently unaware of the proper procedures. I find the latter hard to accept but must trust your and Will's word on the matter.
If we were to tighten up the procedure such that matters like this could be seen in terms of black and white I feel we would lose more than we would gain. I am therefore withdrawing the final warning but will keep the correspondence on your personnel file.
Notwithstanding the above, I have to reiterate the gravity of your misjudgement. I think it was a misjudgement in trade publishing and, I am afraid, symptomatic of your activities in the general books department. You are now an Academic Editor and I am confident that you can make it work, with Ivon as your Manager. I wish you the best of luck in the new job and hope that we shall never have to go through all this again.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Charkin
c.c. Will Sulkin, Ivon Asquith, Clive Moody, Bill Andrewes
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