WCP2163

[1]

New Hollies

Clapham Common

SW

Dec 1^st 1879

My Dear Sir

You can hardly have been more disappointed than I was at the <postponement?> of your article. <It> was [illeg.] at the [illeg.] the house that I was compelled to keep it over for my <January> no:— in which — (for my own sake quite as much as for the author's) I have already definitely placed it.

Pray believe that nothing but <weeping> has caused my delay & please do not let it <prejudice> any [illeg.] of other kind help from your hands.

[illeg.] obliged truly

James Knowles [signature]

L/A.R. Wallace

1. Knowles, James Thomas (1831-1908). British architect and founder of Nineteenth Century magazine, no doubt that referred to here.