Eden Phillpotts
Eden Phillpotts wrote mysteries, comedies, and narrative poems; these continued to be in print from the 1890s well into the 1930s. He was a prolific writer, with more than one hundred novels and twenty-two volumes of poetry to his credit, in addition many plays and essays. Phillpotts writes to thank the recipient for his courteous note. Phillpotts states that the book The Sinews of War; a Romance of London and the Sea (1906) was written with Arnold Bennett and that they were approached with an offer for a “cheap edition” but Pinker, Bennett's agent, turned it down and now the book “had better be regarded as dead.” In any case, Phillpotts opines, “the prices offered for translations... are never worth considering.”
This letter is available on the digital library project I Remain.