Letter from Dennis J. Duncanson to Richard A. May in response to May's letters on 24 and 25 September 1967. Duncanson shares a joke that the post takes longer than Machiavelli used to take to cross Europe 460 years ago. Duncanson expresses his fascination about reading of May's accomplishments at Harvard.

Handwritten letter from Richard A. May to Dennis J. Duncanson. This includes an update from Donald Heath who believes that Duncanson's book is a masterpiece but reader interest in the U.S.A. will be confined mostly to academic circles. Nevertheless, Heath promises his endorsement of the book, though in a class composed of three other works – The Two Vietnams by Bermond B. Fall; To Move A Nation by Roger Hilseman; and Viet Cong by Douglas Pike - which May believes are all incomparable to Duncanson's book.

May fears that limited sales to primarily academic circles would place Duncanson completely at the mercy of Professors who could use his work as they choose and Duncanson would have little means of checking whether he has received any credit at all. Therefore, May enquires about Duncanson's contract with Oxford University Press London in order to determine whether it is possible for May to provide page proofs of Duncanson's book to Reader's Digest or Time-Life in America.

Letter from Richard A. May to Dennis J. Duncanson with an accompanying page from Newsweek of 01 January 1968. May writes of Sir Robert Thompon's summation in the newspaper clipping, which concerns several analysis of the current state of the Vietnam war.

A draft manuscript of 'Government and Revolution in Vietnam' by Dennis J. Duncanson. Various inserts are included in this manuscript where Duncanson has made amendments to his work.

A typed draft of Duncanson's publication, 'Government and Revolution in Vietnam' that was written in 1967 with handwritten annotations.

Letter from Andrew Shonfield to Dennis J. Duncanson offering positive feedback to the revised version of Government and Revolution in Vietnam.

Letter from Dennis J. Duncanson to Richard A. May, with enclosed copies of Duncanson's correspondences to Professor Fairbank and another to Holmes Welch. Duncanson also writes of a fellowship L.S.E. has offered him. DD/4/2 and DD/4/3 are associated.

Letter from Dennis J. Duncanson to Richard A. May in response to May's letters on 09 September 1967. Duncanson confirms that the publishers will circulate notices of his book in the upcoming weeks, then review copies will be out by December of the year. By that time the publication date of his book will have been settled. Duncanson believes that it would be best to pre-empt demand for his book in advance by asking May to stimulate interest (and, therefore, demand) in influential quarters through May's contacts, such as Larson and Sen. Morton. This would, also, involve engineering a situation where somebody from Reader's Digest would telephone Oxford University Press, Time-Life, the Senate, etc. to enquire about Duncanson's upcoming book.

Handwritten letter from Richard A. May to Dennis J. Duncanson in which May requests one more complete set of Duncanson's manuscript, while he plans to leave the current set in his possession with Ambassador Donald Heath in New York. May writes that he has talked with Time-Life, Reader's Digest and the New York Times, so he leaves it to Duncanson whether to send him the additional set.

Handwritten letter from Richard A. May to Dennis J. Duncanson informing him of an appointment with Ambassador Donald Heath tomorrow, during which he would show Ambassador Heath Duncanson's page proofs. The following week, May shall be on his way to Journey's End – Richmond. May's post-script explains how he will try to make sure that Duncanson's book will have a prominent review in the New York Times Book Review.