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PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

To: R. A. Denniston Esquire
Chairman, Oxford University Press,
Walton Street
OXFORD OX2 6DP

Dear Sir

I enclose a second copy of a recent letter which as I marked on its envelope, as I stated in its introduction and as you would appreciate from its contents was intended for your personal attention and which still anticipates your personal response. I am writing to you again in view of my surprising receipt of a letter dated 23rd July from Richard Charkin which opens with the remarkable sentences: "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." I do hope that this isn't yet another bizarre turn in this extraordinary corkscrew of an affair.

With regard to the rest of Mr. Charkin's letter, I do not propose to formulate here a detailed reply but will just assure you that as with Ms. Bion's remarks of 9th May on almost every point he precisely contradicts the many assertions that were made at great length to me by Mr. Hardy.

I would just like to add that it is my sincere wish that OUP's publication of my book be born not to the sound of this tiresome wrangling but in the light of your own two expert referees' pre-revision verdicts that "what MAKING NAMES has to say seems to us to be philosophically interesting" and that "it might prove extremely effective as an introduction" and in the spirit of your Senior Editor's hope that "it will be a terrific success".

Yours sincerely, Andrew Malcolm

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