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Chairman and Oxford Publisher R. A. DENNISTON Managing Director R. D. P. Charkin
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Reference RDPC/vjd
Mr. Andrew Malcolm,
7 Southover Street,
BRIGHTON,
E. Sussex BN2 2UA
Dear Mr Malcolm,
I have been passed your letter of 17 July addressed to Mr. Denniston. As it seems that I am the cause of your anger, I feel I should reply. Henry Hardy is on holiday and so I am unable to discuss the matter with him. I shall do so immediately upon his return. I shall then write again to you.
Meanwhile, I must correct some of the comments in your letter. In my letter to you I did not make it clear that I would not authorize the book's publication however it was revised. That decision is not mine - it is the Delegates of the University Press. I did not hold out much hope, it is true.
There is no long-running personal/political power struggle between Mr. Hardy and myself. Your book was and is certainly not a pawn.
I did not 'have a change of heart'. I felt it only fair to you that your revised typescript should, if you wanted, be given an unprejudiced review. I was glad to concede to Mr. Hardy that he should write saying this. We did not write saying OUP would be interested.
I cannot obviously comment on your phone conversations with Henry Hardy until he returns.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Charkin
[On OUP internal copy only:] bcc. Henry Hardy, Nicola Bion
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