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Oct 30, 1938

My dear Phyllis,

How very very good of you to dash about & get all that photostat information! It is just what I want to know.

I think the best plan will be this: to take the L'Allegro score to Mr Burnside as soon as I arrive in Sydney (about Dec 15 or 16) & let him make me a same-size negative of each page (it is no use reducing it). Take that negative to White Plains & let my secretary make 2 photostat positives on my machine, which will cost next to nothing. On the other hand, if I have any money left by the time we reach Sydney, it might be best to have the 2 positive sets done in Sydney right away. In this latter case Alex could deposit the ms with my curator while passing thru Melbourne & could give the other copy to Dr Davies in Adelaide at Xmas time. Could you find time at yr leisure (no hurry) call up Mr Burnside & ask him if he could do the work between Dec. 16 & Dec 19th inclusive? That

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