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CONQUEST

Or

A Piece of Jade

A New Play in Three Acts

by

MARIE C. STOPES

D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.Litt., etc.







1/- net

Copyright 1917 by Dr. Marie C. Stopes

New York
Samuel French
Publisher
28-30 West 38th Street

London
Samuel French, Ltd.
26 Southampton Street
Strand

1917




LEATHERHEAD, SURREY,
ENGLAND.

DEAR MR. DELIGHTFULEST-MANAGER-IN-THE-WORLD,--

I am sending you this play printed instead of type-written because I
think you will find it much easier to slip into your pocket and read,
and also because I don't know your address, and printed books have a
way of finding people without being addressed which typescripts have
not yet learnt. So instead of sending my play round, in what people
tell me is the usual way, to lots and lots of managers in typescript
and wasting ever so much valuable time while they don't read it, I am
sending it to you direct, and hope you will like it. When you read it
you will find that there is still another reason why I am glad to see
it in print.

First let me have just one word in your ear, please: don't look to
see how many pages long it is, and (reckoning "a page a minute") say
it is too short to fill an evening, for I ought to tell you it is a
full-length play