Correspondence with the press primarily consists of cover letters that accompanied proofs sent from the press; they now serve to document the process and timing by which edits were made. A letter from George Lam to the press, dated January 7, 1952, reveals that eleven sets of galleys were issued, and sent to readers in England (Owen Morshead, L. B. Namier, R. W. Chapman, and R. W. Ketton-Cremer), Italy (Ferdinando Sartini), Rhode Island (Leonard Bacon), and Connecticut (Bernhard Knollenberg, Frederick Pottle, Archibald Foord, Wilmarth Lewis, and Smith and Lam).