WCP6380

Letter (WCP6380.7376)

[1]1

MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

ST MARTIN’S STREET,

LONDON, W.C.2.

PLEASE QUOTE TM/PF

1st April, 1947

W. G. Wallace2, Esq[uire].,

61 East Avenue,

Bournemouth,

Hants3.

Dear Sir,

We enclose a letter from the Superintendent of the Clovernook Home for the Blind, M[oun]t. Healthy 31, Ohio4, asking permission to reproduce in Braille the selection from THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO5, by Alfred Russel Wallace, which appeared in Ivan T. Sanderson’s ANIMAL TALES6. No doubt you will wish to follow the usual practice and to give permission free of charge, but we should like to have your formal authorisation.

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

Encl[osure].

Agreed.

W.G.W.9

1
The letter is typewritten. The page is numbered [WP16/1/36] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Hampshire.
4
Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Mount Healthy is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, USA.
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
Sanderson, I. T. (Ed.) (1946) Animal Tales, An anthology of Animal Literature of all Countries New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
7
London publishers, founded in 1843.
8
Handwritten in ink.
9
"Agreed" with initials, written in ink in recipient’s hand below the typescript.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6380.7376)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6380,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6380