9 Oct 1921

9 October 1921

Chalet des Sapins, Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland

Dear Mr Pinker,
  Thank you very much for letter me know about the story; I am glad the Mercury have taken it. It would be nice if we hear from America before December, so that it can be ‘out' for Xmas. But perhaps that's a little too much to expect.
  Would you mind - would it be a trouble - if I were to change the title of my new book of stories. What I want very much to do, if its possible, is to add a story lm finishing called The Garden-Party & to have the book called by that rather than At The Bay. I feel the book needs one more substantial story & a title that is solid. At The Bay now seems to me flimsy and vague. One forgets it - it doesn't carry and the other is a more ‘compelling' (horrid word) title on a bookstall.
  But this change may not be possible. I hope it is. I wrote Michael Sadlier a note to the same effect. Will you let me have your opinion, at your convenience?
                                          Yours sincerely
                                     Katherine Mansfield
[To J. B. Pinker, Collected Letters, 10 October 1921.]