W. J. Lawrence letter to William Archer, 1916 January 26

              2007-0375, Haddington Road, Dublin; January 26th 1916. My dear Archer , This evening, a few hours after returning the proof, I received the enclosed' letter from Onions. He is leading me so rare a dance that he makes me thing(K) of the old "Jig of Garlick." Frankly, I am getting rather tired of this man. First he asks for a bibliography, and lQng after the work is done he asks that it should be r-aLs onne , This would mean about another week's work, added to the impossibility of my summarizing certain German books of whose contents I have but a hazy noti on. 1s-·:~tt in the bond1 have we not al ready exceeded our or! gina! contract1 1· certainly d I dnt t bargain for a solid week s work of belated revision. I am not grumbling on that score because I rewrote the whole with gusto. But the line must be drawn somewhere, and I hinted as much to Onions in replying to him tonight. I also told him that his note