Parkstone, Dorset.
May 29th. 1896
Messrs Macmillans & Co.1
Dear Sirs
I am sorry if my provisional permission to Cassell & Co.2 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 Messr Cassell, 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 [the] future I will tell any applicants that [they] must get your permission before applying to me.
A.R.W.
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