e: though that is not necessary.

There is a subject we have touched on once or twice that I want to
talk to you about, for I am very much worried in my mind as to
whether you will disapprove of a decision I have been coming to with
a very earnest belief that I am seeking to do the right thing. I have
just had information that my screw from "The Speaker" will be yet
further increased from L120 a year to L150, or, if I do the full
amount I can, L190 a year. I have also had a request from the "Daily
News" to do two columns a week regularly, which [is] rather over L100
a year, besides other book reviews. My other sources of income which
should bring the amount up to nearly L150 more, at any rate, I will
speak of in a moment.

There is something, as I say, that is distressing me a great deal.
I believe I said about a year ago that I hoped to get married in a
year, if I had money enough. I fancy you took it rather as a joke: I
was not so certain about it myself then. I have however been coming
very seriously to the conclusion that if I pull off one more
affair--a favourable arrangement with Reynolds' Newspaper, whose
editor wants to see me at the end of this week, I shall, unless you
disapprove, make a dash for it this year. When I mentioned the matter
a short time ago, you said (if I remember right) that you did not
think I ought to marry under L400 or L500 a year. I was moved to go
into the matter thoroughly then and there, but as it happened I knew
I had one or two bargains just coming of which would bring me nearer
to the standard you named, so I thought I would let it stand over
till I could actually quote them. Believe me, my dearest mother, I am
not considering this affair wildly or ignorantly: I have been doing
nothing but sums in my head for the last months. This is how matters
stand. The _Speaker_ editor says they will take as much as I like to
write. If I write my maximum I get L192 a year from them. From the
_Daily News_, even if I do not get the post on the staff which was half
promised me, I shall get at least L100 a year with a good deal over
for reviews outside "The Wars of Literature." That makes nearly L300.
With the Manchester Sunday Chronicle I have just made a bargain by
which I shall get L72 a year. This makes L370 a year altogether. The
matter now, I think, largely depends on Reynolds' Newspaper. If