WCP6381

Letter (WCP6381.7377)

[1]1

MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

ST MARTIN’S STREET,

LONDON, W.C.2.

PLEASE QUOTE TM/PF

13th April, 1948.

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

61 East Avenue,

Bournemouth.

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter of April 10th. Mr. Ivan Sanderson’s ANIMAL TALES3,4 has now been published by Mess[ieu]rs. Klopf, and the fee for the use of the material in THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO5, by Alfred Russel Wallace, has been paid to us. Since we have no other amount to your credit, we are sending the cheque for £11. 1s. 11d.6 herewith.

Mess[ieu]rs. Harrap7 inform us that their British edition has not yet been issued8.

We are sending a copy of the American edition9 under separate cover.

We are | Yours faithfully, | Macmillan & Co[mpany]. L[imi]t[e]d.10,11

P[ost]. S[criptum]. We will write to you again very shortly about the other question you raise.

Encl[osure].

Ack[knowledge]d 12

1
The letter is typewritten. The page is numbered [WP16/1/37] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Sanderson, I. T. (Ed.) (1946) Animal Tales, An anthology of Animal Literature of all Countries New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
4
Underlined in pencil and the annotation "Received Ap[ri]l. 16th 1948" is written in pencil in the recipient’s hand in pencil in the LH margin opposite.
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
Eleven pounds, one shilling and eleven pence (£11.10 approx.)
7
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.
8
Paragraph highlighted by two vertical lines in pencil in the LH margin.
9
No edition of Animal Tales (see Endnote 3) published by George G Harrap found.
10
London publishers, founded in 1843.
11
Handwritten in ink.
12
Written in ink in recipient’s hand below the typescript.

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

Please cite as “WCP6381,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6381