Author: Sir Max Beerbohm

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Published: 1926

Total Pages: 2

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Declining his terms for a speaking engagement by counter-proposing impossible terms. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, personal stationery. (MRS) Rapallo, 18 January 1926 "I thank you for returning to the charge. But you don't charge hard enough. Or rather you don't seem to think I shall charge high enough. ... $12,000, minus 35 p.c., for 'hard travel,' plus the horror of 'widespread newspaper publicity' in your 'beautiful country' for a 'period of three or four months'--oh, dear Mr. Reid, how little you know me! If you will guarantee an absolutely smooth Atlantic (forfeit of $500 to be paid by you for the least ripple observed by me) and will build an exquisite little marble hall on Ellis Island, a hall warranted not to hold more than twenty-five persons, to whom, on one night only and, for not more than twenty minutes, and for a fee of twenty-five million dollars, I shall utter very quietly whatever nonsense may come into my head."