to do a book for me: but on hearing that other illustrations of mine were arranged to appear the same season, they at once withdrew their offer. As a matter of fact the better class books do not sell half the number that they did before the war, & there is not as much profit to be made out of each book as there was, so neither publishers nor illustrators are having much of a time. The only men of my craft who are flourishing, are portrait painters, & advertisement designers – branches that I only occasionally enter. …’