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A copy of Richard A. May's letter to Professor John K. Fairbank of Harvard University about Duncanson's possible academic post at Harvard university with Professor Fairbank. May also discusses a possible meeting with Fairbank in Cambridge. Connected to DD/4/6.

Correspondence from Richard A. May to Dennis J. Duncanson asking Duncanson to comment on the pages sent.

Letter sent from Richard A. May to Dennis J. Duncanson. This is centred around Oxford University press and trying to encourage the publication of an American edition of Duncanson's book.

Letter from Richard A. May to Andrew E. Palmer, Import Department Manager at Oxford University Press, New York. May encloses a copy of Oxford University Press, London's first information sheet on Duncanson's book. May also writes of his disappointment of Oxford University Press, New York, deciding to not print an American edition of Duncanson's book

Letter from Richard A. May to Barbara Barrett at Time-Life Magazine which provides details of enclosures May had sent to her as background information of Duncanson, his page proof and curriculum vitae.

Letter from Richard A. May to David Lawrence, Editor at U.S. News & World Report. In anticipation of the arrival of an advanced review copy of Duncanson's book, May writes to enclose a copy of Duncanon's curriculum vitae and a copy of Oxford University Press, London, first publicity release. Lastly, May writes that as Duncanson will be in the U.S. during the months of January and February, a possible meeting with Lawrence might be possible if so wished.

Letter from Richard A. May to David Lawrence to whom May pitches Duncanson's forthcoming book, Government and Revolution in Vietnam, as 'the major British contribution so far to the Vietnam problem'. May proposes a meeting with Lawrence to discuss Duncanson's manuscript.

Letter from Richard A. May to Dennis J. Duncanson to request approval with regards to handling Duncanson's page proofs among the contacts May has fostered in America. May believes that if George V. Allen, Director of the Foreign Service Institute was to read Duncanson's book, it might invoke a good review and a subsequent demand for several hundred, if not a thousand, orders for U.S. government libraries if not all over the world.

Letter from Richard A. May to Dennis J. Duncanson. May offers Duncanson his advice and opinion of the academic establishment in the US with the view that they are 'exclusively interested in themselves and only...from that point interested in you [Duncanson] and your priceless and uniquely conceived works.' Further, May discusses potential television promotional opportunities for Duncanson when he visits the US.

Letter from Richard A. May to Dennis J. Duncanson to update the latter of developments regarding a set of page proofs May endeavours to send before high authority in Washington. There is also discussion about the publishing of Duncanson's book in America.