WCP6376

Letter (WCP6376.7372)

[1]1

MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

ST MARTIN’S STREET,

LONDON, W.C.2.

PLEASE QUOTE TM/ME

1st February, 1946.

W. G. Wallace2, Esq[uire].

Culver Croft

61 East Avenue

BOURNEMOUTH

Dear Sir,

In reply to your letter of January 26th, we beg to say that we have not received any payment from Mess[ieu]rs. A. A. Knopf, Inc[orporated]., in respect of the passage from The Malay Archipelago3, by Alfred Russel Wallace, which they asked permission to include in an anthology of Wild Animal Stories4. We will ask them how the matter stands.

We are, | Yours faithfully, | Macmillan & Co[mpany]. L[imi]t[e]d.5,6

1
This is a typewritten letter. The page is numbered [WP16/1/32] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
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.
4
Sanderson, I. T. (Ed.) (1946) Animal Tales, An anthology of Animal Literature of all Countries New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
5
London publishers, founded in 1843.
6
Handwritten in ink.

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

Please cite as “WCP6376,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6376