WCP6374

Letter (WCP6374.7370)

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MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

ST MARTIN’S STREET,

LONDON, W.C.2.

PLEASE QUOTE TM/ME

11th February, 1944.

W. G. Wallace2, Esq[uire].

Culver Croft

61, East Avenue

BOURNEMOUTH

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter of February 10th, authorising us to ask Mess[ieu]rs. A. A. Knopf, Inc[orporated]. for a fee of $45 for permission to use 10,000 words from "Malay Archipelago"3 [sic] by Alfred Russel Wallace, in Ivan T. Sanderson’s4 forthcoming anthology5.

It would be quite the usual thing to ask for a voucher copy of the work, and we will do this on your behalf.

We are, | Yours faithfully, | for MACMILLAN & CO. LTD6 TM7

The letter is typewritten. The page is numbered [WP16/1/30] in pencil in the top RH corner.
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
Wallace, A. R. (1869) The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature. London, Macmillan & Co.
Sanderson, Ivan Terence (1911-1973) Scottish-born biologist and writer, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Sanderson, I. T. (Ed.) (1946) Animal Tales, An anthology of Animal Literature of all Countries New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
London publishers, founded in 1843.
Initials handwritten in ink.

Please cite as “WCP6374,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6374