17 Aug 1921

17 August 1921

Chalet des Sapins, Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland

Dear Sir,
  I thank you for your letter. It is a very great pleasure to know that you will act for me.
  I note what you say about sending my new volume of stories in duplicate, and I will let you have two copies as soon as possible.
  In the meantime I am sending you copies of the last three stories of a series of six which were commissioned by the Sphere. I am afraid they may be appearing at the time you receive this letter. But would it be worth while sending them to America?
  In the matter of a publisher for my new book I have promised the first refusal of it to Constable's. But I am not bound to any publisher. As to America, Alfred Knopf who bought Bliss in sheets, asked to see my new book. But of course I am not anxious to have it sold in sheets again.
  Yours sincerely,
  Katherine Mansfield
P.S. Your second letter suggesting that I should write something for the Daily Chronicle has just arrived. The subjects I can think of off-hand on which I should like to write a thousand words are: "Up the airy Mountains", "Jam", "Stairs", "On discovering Books". I hope these or some of these will be suitable; but I cannot turn my light pen into a sword or a ploughshare.

[To J. B. Pinker, Collected Letters, 26 August 1921.]