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Clova, The Mount, 
Leatherhead, ■Surr©3^, 
P6th. December, 1935 
Uy dear Ho It turn, .-f , 
Very many thanks indeed for all the great 
trouble which you hare taken to launch the Dictionary/' 
in Kalaya* Your kind review is gresctiy’^ appreciated. 
I have had from the Crown Agents copies of what 
the Malay .Mail has said and wlB-t. the Times of Cey/'lcn has 
said. Both give the Dictionary a column of average 
newspaper value* 
The Crown Agents have only 15 copies on hand* They 
will not he able to meet the demand here. I have 
always understood that publishers issu/ing, say'', 2000 
copies, have 1000 cr fewer/ bound up to meet the first 
demend and bind up the rest. a.s the first se3,l* It 
never occurred to m.e that the publishing of the Diction¬ 
ary would be done as it has been done - all bound straight^ 
away* -It still less occurred to. me that orders would be 
given to send practioally the whole stock to Singapore* 
The official distribution (to the British Museum, Cambridge, 
Oxford, Royal libraries, Covernment offices-etc), the gift 
copies in Britain, and the review copies amounted to 80 
more or less: tjsen the Grom Agents kept 50 more, and sent 
the rest to Singapore* This seems a great mistake and there 
will have to a returning of copies to Britain to meet 
demands here* Unless the Straits Covernment means to 
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dispose immiediate^.y of the copies it has, it is folly 
to store thm in such a bad climate. 
The review in the Kew Bulletin wil3. short3,5r be out; 
that in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society may be 
in their January/" number; Nature has asked Kew for a review 
and these will cause more copies than the 15 available, to 
be asl« d for. Then .there will be no copies for the United 
statM and 'ranee. I «a .annoyed at rt.t see., to a 
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