# C. K. Ogden an Carnap, 29. März 1934 März 1934

Dear Dr. Carnap‚

your letter (about SpringerI Springer Verlag) was sent to me in the country?, and I do not get back to London till April 3; so I am writing a short answer to your questions.

I. For all PsycheI Psyche, Zeitschrift, BasicI and OrthologicalI printed material Kegan PaulI Kegan Paul, Verlag are our distribution representatives. That is to say, they take the books from us when they have been through our hands as producers. They 🕮 are not responsible for the printing, producing, or business ride in any other way than as putting their name on the front page.

2. “The International Library of Psychology“I, on the other hand, is printed by them, and I am only responsible for the quality of the books to which I give my approval. But because of the present condition of the market, they do not take more than 1% even of the suggestions which till 1929 would have been normal suggestions.

3. Because of the conditions here and in America, they have taken nothing 🕮 as such a question as logic or aesthetics for more than three years. One or two old agreements have been put through, such as VosslerP and Max BlackP Black, Max, 1909–1988, brit.-am. Philosoph; but there is very little chance anything on language theory from another language (that is to say, not an English University ‘text‘-book) seeing the light before 1936.

The best time to make an attempt to get your bookB 1937@The Logical Syntax of Language, London, 1937 into the LibraryI would be when it is ready in English. A fait accompli is generally better than an outline. 🕮

4. I will certainly put the suggestion again to Kegan PaulI Kegan Paul, Verlag, for the Library, when it is ready in English; but if they still do not see a market for it, the Psyche ‘Monographs‘I Psyche Monographs are designed for this purpose. They are of the same form as “The Meaning of Meaning“B and the rest of the Library for PsychologyI, but they are like the “Psyche (1933) Annual“I in colour. So far there are two of them

1. The Origin of Instinct B by BugnionP

2. The Guidance of Conduct B by DixonP🕮

Number 3 will be

The Image and Appearance of the Human Body B, by Dr Paul SchilderP (of Vienna and New York), now with the printer.

5. When I said that Kegan PaulI Kegan Paul, Verlag make payments, for us, once every year, it was not because you will get a payment once a year. The payment will be made when the first agreement is signed; that is to say, an agreement for £ 15 on the first 2000 copies. Kegan PaulI Kegan Paul, Verlag make payments to us 🕮 in June of every year (as at March 31 of that year) from which we will be able to say what number of copies is still in hand. So that you will not be in ? if a second printing is needed.

6. Your point about a division of this small amount with SpringerI is quite clear. But I am hoping that there will be no need to have any relations with SpringerI. The Berlin SpringerI, at any rate, has frequently been a cause of trouble; and for 🕮 that reason it is important for us to be able to make agreements with writers who are the owners of their international rights. I am waiting for your further news on this point.

7. The addition of the material not in the German bookB 1934@Logische Syntax der Sprache, Wien, 1934 is not a help to us! The natural request would be for us to make the payment to you smaller– on account of the addition to the size of the book. But we 🕮 are ready to make this addition to the size so that your ideas may be as complete as possible.

8. My view that no other English house would take your bookB 1937@The Logical Syntax of Language, London, 1937 at the present time, or (if it did) make a greater payment than £ 15, or get it out this year if it was taken, may be wrong. I would not, however, let our discussions have any effect on your chance of taking for some other publisher. But in that case 🕮 it would be necessary to give the Countess Zeppelin P Zeppelin, Amethe von, *1896, brit. Übersetzerin, verh. mit Leo von Zeppelin (the only person who is truly able to put it into good English) some other Psyche workB in place of it.

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To my regret this is all in handwriting, but it will probably be clear enough – as it is all in Basic.

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C.K. Ogden

Please keep in mind my interest in your note about Esperanto. Yours is the first suggestion I have had that anyone seriously takes such a view.

Brief, hsl., 9 Seiten Format RC 081-13-01; Briefkopf: hsl. March 29, 1934  /? 58 Frith Street  /  London W.1.

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