Kaikhosru Sorabji's Letters to Peter Warlock (Inglis/Smith: Routledge)

  Saturday [24 June 1922]   175, CLARENCE GATE GARDENS. REGENTS PARK, N.W.1.   Belovedest Prosdoscimus:-   By all means choose my paper if you like it. You don’t say what you think of the songs you Sod! And I wrote a swete dedication on them for you – Blast you!   Yes exactly! Who to turn to as agents? As far as I’m concerned I’ll be my own. The sale of my works is not so overpowering in size that I can’t cope with it and it ought to be rather amusing. But I’m concerned about you and Orr. Try Goodwin & Tabb why don’t you? I have nothing whatever to do with Robber BLion Kling-Klux-Klang.   I’m going away on July 24 th or 25 th for my holiday and right glad of it shall I be after nearly two years incessant writing Sonata II – Symphony – Sonata III.   Yes, Salvarsan is a good name for him [Aleister Crowley]: for he’s as much a fraud as that much boomed “remedy”. I’ve been reading a perfectly appalling dynamiti...

  175, CLARENCE GATE GARDENS. REGENTS PARK, N.W.1. London.   19. June 22. My dear Phee:   I have already told you once that Waldheim gives me no separate estimate for covers. It is always an inclusive estimate. I have no samples of cover paper by me now but the copy of the songs I send you will show you the sort of thing that looks very nice and suitable.   You must remember that printers require to be instructed down to the smallest details of title page & cover printing: size of type: distribution – Spacing and so on. My covers are the result of my own very careful and detailed instructions and if you want anything as well done, you must do the same.   The particular fount used I got from Waldheim Eberle bill-head: it took my fancy & I told them to use it. The best thing is to plan out on a piece of paper the size of your cover the exact position & wording you want as I always do with numbered references to the size of t...