‘Advert’ in newspaper from ‘The Senior Editor, Colin Smyth Ltd’, August 23-September 5, 1973, p. 13:

‘We know that James Baldwin is already under contract with a publisher. But surely there must be another creative writer about who has yet to make his mark! Mind you, we are not in the market for pornography nor do we have a ‘titillation editor’ who looks for gawdy tripe, but if you think that you have a best-seller in you, you could do worse than send us your m/s or better still, a synopsis of your work’.