‘You have no idea,’ wrote the publisher Ralph Hodder-Williams in 1929 to one of his authors,
what terrible offence Journey’s End has given — and terrible pain too, which is a great deal more important. I think you will agree that the chronic alcoholic was extraordinarily rare.
He was referring to R.C.
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