| Content Description | Replies to his frank letter in the same spirit; details the history of 'Lady Chatterley' and its possible publication in Germany with it finally being rejected by Kippenberg [Insel-Verlag]; explains that Curtis Brown have the responsibility for the book, that their Foreign Manager, Miss Jean Watson, had his permission to look at Vienna and that Frau Ewald, who is a friend, is not commissioned by him to act in any way for the book; asks what he should say to Miss Watson about Phaidon or Mr Tal about whom he himself knows nothing; expresses his general dissatisfaction at the various German translations of his books, in particular 'The Rainbow'; explains why he wanted his sister-in-law [Else Jaffe] to translate him, and that she is now doing 'The Plumed Serpent', but recognises her limitations.
In conclusion asks him to let him know about 'Lady C'. |