[‘The time is not one that favours such an enterprise’: Lord Haldane, Lord Chancellor and philosopher.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Miss Black’, giving his considered opinion of the prospects for ‘a new weekly paper’.

Author: 
Lord Haldane [Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane] (1856-1928), Scottish Liberal and Labour politician, philosopher, and Lord Chancellor
Publication details: 
9 March 1920; on letterhead of 28 Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster.
£65.00
SKU: 24018

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged with a crease. Folded once. Signed ‘Haldane’. He begins ‘With all good wishes for any cause you are engaged in’, but ‘no hope of success for a new weekly paper’. He gives a damning assessment of the present situation: ‘Journalism of a high order is not attracting a large readership to-day; a really good editor is almost impossible to get; there are already too many weekly papers; and the financial and business difficulties would be almost insuperable.’ He can say no more, since he has ‘thought a good deal over the general question’. He concludes decisively: ‘The time is not one that favours such an enterprise.’