WCP5083

Letter (cc) (WCP5083.5561)

[1]1

20th May [1]901

Dear Sir,

We are in receipt of your letters of the 17th & 19th May2 re[garding] "The Wonderful Century Reader."3

We have asked the Printers to have some fresh pulls of the proofs printed on good surface paper and we will then do our best to supplement the cuts which are wanting.4 You shall have two sets of pulls printed on one side only.

We should like to get "W[onderful]. C[entury]. Reader" through in July if possible.

We have all the coloured frontispieces of Flamborough Head5 [2]6 [MS damaged]

We hope to be able to get Mr. [name illeg.]’s advice as to the set up of the Reader and whether the Lessons[?] ought to be of uniform[?] length.

Yours truly | NW [signature initials]

Alfred R. Wallace Esq[uire].

1
The letter bears no heading, but is signed (initialled) in the name of ARW’s London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co., founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931).
2
See WCP5184, dated 17 May 1901 and WCP5185, dated 19 May 1901. Both letters are presumed lost or do not survive.
3
Wallace A. R. (1901). The Wonderful Century Reader London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., published in November 1901. This was an abridged version of the 4th Edition (February 1901) of The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures, first published in 1898.
4
The engraved boxwood block or woodcut dominated early Victorian book illustration. Electrotyping replaced woodcuts for the production of fine artwork in books. In the second half of the century, most woodblock engravings were actually printed from electrotypes. Reference to electrotypes in production of the Reader (see Endnote 4) first occurs in WCP5066.
5
A promontory, 8 miles long on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington bays of the North Sea. It is a chalk headland, with sheer cliffs.
6
The page is stamped "9".

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (cc) (WCP5083.5561)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP5083,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 12 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5083