to Clement Shorter, printed letterhead of 2 Thistle Street, Edinburgh. 2 pp., 8vo, 10 October, 1907.
From the head of the Edinburgh printers and publishers, regarding the design of the title-page for an unspecified book, which is almost certainly Selections from the Poems of Lionel Johnson (Mathews, 1908). Also: ‚“I will soon give you and Dr. Nichol complete proofs. As to title page - I enclose one that I made out. It seemed to me that to put more words on the title would hardly be dignified. One of your suggestions was to state how many many hitherto unpublished poems were included. Don’t you think that would be better in a page which might be called in the old fashioned way ‘advertisement’ & might either face of follow the title page.“
