WCP3379

[1]¹

Parkstone, Dorset.

May 29th. 1896

Messrs Macmillans & Co.²

Dear Sirs

I am sorry if my provisional permission to Cassell & Co. to use extracts from my books has put you in any difficulty. I merely agreed — subject to your consent — on the general principle that any quotation from a book, when acknowledged, is an advertisement, and in the case of school-books the finest advertisement possible, [2] and I thought you would look at it in the same light, or ^I should not have given any permission.

I have no reason whatever for obliging Mess^r Cassell,³ of whom I know nothing privately, & you are therefore quite free, so for as I am concerned, either to refuse altogether or to limit the amount of the quotations to what you [3] think suitable.

Believe me | yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. In future I will tell any applicants that [they] must get your permission before applying to me.

A.R.W.