8                                Miriam. J. Benkovitz

of The Princess Zoubaroff were bound and ready for publication
scheduled for 13 November 1920 when, on November 3, Evan
Morgan refused to have the book dedicated to him. After seeing
a pre-publication copy, he had visited the office of Grant Richards,
 

Photograph of Evan Morgan in 1920.

the publisher, and made quite a stir about his strong objection to
the dedication. He had talked about " 'highly placed personages'
at St James's Palace on whom he was in waiting, . . . generally
tried to ride about three horses at once" and in several ways war¬
ranted Richards's description of him as "rather a donkey." The
publisher pointed out the difficulty and cost of removing the dedi-