KAISER'S M.S.S.
RETURNED WITH THANKS. A LOSING PROPOSITTON.
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(Received Sept. 29, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. The Daily Chroniele's special correspondent at Amst-erdam states : The ex-Kaiser reoently had the bitter ©xperience of having his beloved manuscript "returned with tha-nks." Every Sunday the household at Doorn assembl-es in the private chapel and the ex-Kaiser1 preaches feeling sermons worthy of a more numerous flock. These were collected in a yolume and an ajgent offered tljem to many American publishers, but thev were rejeeted without an offer everywhere. Germany was next tried, but even the ex-Kaiser's Bcrlin publishers replied that there was nothiug doing. Xn the meantime, a seoond manuscript — namely, the- -first voliune of the ex-Kaiser's autobiography — after much offering found a publisher in America, but at a humiliating price. The ex-Kaiser received a quarber of a million dollars for an earlier postwar volume but the American syndicate which bought it lost money on it. and would not look at the autobiographv. Eventually the offer of £12.000 was accepted, the equivalent of four days' salarv as the All Highest.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 231, 30 September 1926, Page 5
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