Autograph letter signed : Chilswell, to Maurice Leahy, [1930] January 10.

Concerning delays in the publication of the second edition of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins; telling Leahy that the delay is due to Reverend Gerald Lahey's forthcoming biography of Hopkins (published in 1930 by Oxford University Press): "The biographical part of it -- which is all that I read -- seemed to me well done and full of new interesting matter but it contained so much copy-righted matter that he could only publish it at the University Press: & Mr [Humphrey] Milford has undertaken it .. but it was agreed that it should for many reasons appear before the new edition of the poems"; explaining that he is not contributing anything new to this edition, "but Mr Milford & the family consult me, & the new edition is in the hands of a sympathetic & competent editor"; noting that Hopkins's nephew is on staff at the press; describing his interactions with Lahey: "Father Leahy [sic] called on me here & I showed him all the MSS I have. All that did not definitely belong to me were returned to the family when I had brought out my volume"; discussing the new edition: "The new book will be very carefully done -- reprinted from the first, I think, with an Appendix"; referring to a folio reproduction of a poem (title illegible) that will accompany the publication.