Letter from Sidney Colvin, Puttenham, to T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, 1914 September 8: autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that Cobden-Sanderson's letter puts him in a difficult position, as he would very much like to be of use, but "you see that with reference to Keats I am pledged to Chatto & Windus for their Florence Press edition, with which your Doves Press selection must necessary [necessarily?] come to some extent in competition, - and of which, over & above the type & style, my chronological arrangement and a corresponding chronological table are to be special features;" adding that he doesn't feel he could honorably give the Doves Press material that he has prepared for the Chatto & Windus edition: "Not that indeed much of the information is original, but some of it is : the rest could easily be compiled by any careful reader either of [Ernest] De Selincourt's or [Harry] Buxton's [sic] Forman's editions;" commenting on Cobden-Sanderson's edition: "The poems look beautiful in your type. The selection and arrangement - especially the latter - strike me as unexpected & new rather than quite satisfying : but then no editor or anthologist ever in his heart quite likes another man's work in the same material;" sending greetings from his wife Frances; concluding "We are trying to bear up against the tremendous strain of the time with help from the extreme beauty of earth & sky in the solitary corner of Surrey where we are spending the summer."