Typed letter signed ("J. M. Keynes").
Small 4to. 1 page.
$4,886.00
To Sir W. D. Ross, Provost of Oxford's Oriel College from 1929 to 1947 and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1941 to 1944, writing shortly after Edvard Beneš's resignation as president of Czechoslovakia and escape to Britain: "I would very readily sign the letter to Dr Benes which you have sent me if it were not that I have already signed a very similar letter drafted by Mr. H. G. Wells on behalf of a certain number of writers, which was delivered to Dr Benes a few days ago. In view of this, perhaps it would be rather a duplication for me to sign a further letter, and I feel that it would be better that I should not do so. If, knowing the above, you still feel that my signature should be affixed to this letter, I readily give you discretion to add it to the list".
Small folding marks, light foxing.
