WCP6377

Letter (WCP6377.7373)

[1]1

MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

ST MARTIN’S STREET,

LONDON, W.C.2.

PLEASE QUOTE TM/ME

6th March, 1946

W. G. Wallace2, Esq[uire].

Culver Croft

61 East Avenue

BOURNEMOUTH

Dear Sir,

We have now heard from Mess[ieu]rs. Knopf, who inform us that Mr. Ivan Sanderson’s3 anthology of Wild Animal Stories4 will be published this autumn. They will then send us the payment for the extract from The Malay Archipelago5 about which you asked in your letter of January 26th.

We are, | Yours faithfully, | Macmillan & Co[mpany]. L[imi]t[e]d.6,7

1
The letter is typewritten. The page is numbered [WP16/1/33] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Sanderson, Ivan Terence (1911-1973) Scottish-born biologist and writer, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
4
Sanderson, I. T. (Ed.) (1946) Animal Tales, An anthology of Animal Literature of all Countries New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
5
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.
6
London publishers, founded in 1843.
7
Handwritten in ink.

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

Please cite as “WCP6377,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 4 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6377