Letter about scope
for people to retire to Oxford so as to work with us
I know I must not go on
pestering you with information about my position, but before signing off I
think I should say that we are very much in need of both money and people, and
you or anyone else in an approximately similar position would be very welcome
to retire to Oxford to augment our manpower.
An interest in any particular area of work is beside the point, there
are a good many areas in which we would be working if not restricted by the
lack of funding.
There is particularly
scope for retired graduates to help with our publishing operations. A lot of work goes into supervising the
publication of books. Printers are very
inefficient (partly, I suppose, because only large-scale publishing by large
conglomerates is commercially viable).
So nothing can be left to chance and it is always necessary to chase
them up about deadlines and look out for errors.
Anyway, we are still
trying to expand in the direction of becoming an independent university and
publishing company, supported by a business empire. There is also a lot of scope for investment assistants.
I enclose copies of two
letters which I have written recently about my education. They may give you some idea of the crazy way
I was treated, which might interest you as a schoolmaster. I am planning to produce a book about it as
soon as I can, but as usual there is a financial problem, because no publisher
would accept a book which put the state educational system in a bad light, so
it is another of the books we shall have to publish ourselves.
As I have said before, I
hope you will try to drop in if you are ever in Oxford, but we would appreciate
at least a day's warning.