WCP6379

Letter (WCP6379.7375)

[1]1

MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

ST MARTIN’S STREET,

LONDON, W.C.2.

PLEASE QUOTE TM/ME

9th September, 1946

W. G. Wallace2, Esq[uire].

61 East Avenue

BOURNEMOUTH

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter of September 6. We think that the appropriate fee to suggest for the use of 10,000 words from The Malay Archipelago3 in Mess[ieu]rs. Harrap’s4 Edition of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Animal Tales5 would be £10 10 06. We will ask Mess[ieu]rs. Harrap to let you have a voucher copy of their edition on publication.

We are, | Yours faithfully, | Macmillan & Co[mpany]. L[imi]t[e]d.7,8

Ap[ri]l. 10 1948

Wrote again to enquire whether either edition has been published9.

1
The letter is typewritten. The page is numbered [WP16/1/35] 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
George G. Harrap, Ltd (officially: George G. Harrap and Company Limited, London & Bombay) is a now defunct publisher of high quality specialised books, many of them educational.
5
Sanderson, I. T. (Ed.) (1946) Animal Tales, An anthology of Animal Literature of all Countries New York, A. A. Knopf. No edition published by George G Harrap found.
6
Ten pounds and ten shillings (ten guineas) (£10.50).
7
London publishers, founded in 1843.
8
Handwritten in ink.
9
Dated copy of draft reply written in pencil in recipient’s hand, below the typescript.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6379.7375)]

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

Please cite as “WCP6379,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 18 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6379