WCP6356

Letter (WCP6356.7351)

[1]1

JONATHAN CAPE LIMITED,

THIRTY BEDFORD SQUARE,

LONDON W.C.1

5th April 1940

W. G. Wallace2 Esq[uire].,

Culver Croft,

61, East Avenue,

Bournemouth.

Dear Sir,

Many thanks for your letter of yesterday. I herewith enclose copies of the four letters of your father’s, which we should like to print in Sir Sydney Cockerell’s3 book4.

Yours very truly, | Rupert Hart-Davis5[signature]

Rupert Hart-Davis

Director

FHD/JA

1
The page is numbered [WP16/1/6] in pencil in the top RH corner. The annotation in ink "Gave consent Ap[ri]l. 6 1940 W.G.W." is written in the bottom RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle (1867-1962) English museum curator and collector. He was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1908-1937.
4
Meynell, V. (Ed.) (1940) Friends of a lifetime: letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, London, Jonathan Cape. (See WCP6409).
5
Hart-Davis, Rupert Charles (1907-1999) English publisher, editor and man of letters. He worked first at William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 -1931 and was a director at Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1933-1940. He founded his own publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. after War service in 1946.

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

Please cite as “WCP6356,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6356