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WCP6384

Author’s draft (WCP6384.7381)

[1]1

[No address]

April 16 / [19]482

S. H. Evans3

Dear Sir

With regard to your request to be allowed to use extracts totalling 1500 words from the [sic] Malay Archipelago4, I am willing to agree & I suggest a fee of £2 — 2 — 05 and a voucher copy of the book when published. I am informed by Mess[ieu]rs. Macmillan6 that the blocks for the illustrations no longer exist but you may reproduce the four illustrations by other means if you wish.

[No valediction]7

[2]8

April 16th 1948

Macmillan & Co[mpany]. L[imite]d

I am much obliged for the advice you have given me with regard to Mr S. H. Evans’ request to use extracts from the [sic] Malay Archipelago. I also thank you for the cheque for £1.1.119 in respect of the extracts used by Mr Ivan Sanderson10, for the voucher copy of the his book "Animal Tales["]11 & for your kind services in negotiating the matter for me.

[No valediction]

[3]12

Dyer & Sheppard, Ltd

UPHOLSTERERS

CROFT ROAD

(OFF OSWALD ROAD0

MOORDOWN

BOURNEMOUTH

12th. April 1948.

Mrs Wallace,

61, East Ave[nue],

Bournemouth.

Dear Madam,

We thank you for your cheque to hand and herewith enclose receipt.

Assuring you of our best attention at all times

We are, Madam, | Yours faithfully, | Dyer & Sheppard, L[imi]t[e]d.

p[er] p[ro]. K. R. S.

1
This is a draft of a letter, written in pencil. The page is numbered [WP16/1/40] in pencil in the top LH corner.
2
Year deduced from birth and death dates of author.
3
Evans, S. Harold (known as Harold Evans) (No dates or biographical details found). The request relates to his projected work Evans, H. (Ed.) (1949) Men in the Tropics: A Colonial Anthology London, William Hodge & Co.
4
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.
5
Two pounds and two shillings (two guineas) (£2.10).
6
London publishers, founded in1843.
7
The author is Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW (not shown on the letter).
8
This is a draft of a letter, written in pencil.
9
One pound, one shilling and eleven pence (£1.10 approx.)
10
Sanderson, Ivan Terence (1911-1973) Scottish-born biologist and writer, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
11
Sanderson, I. T. (Ed.) (1946) Animal Tales, An anthology of Animal Literature of all Countries New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
12
The draft has been written on the back of this letter written in ink to the author’s wife, which bears no relation to the foregoing, and has been struck through with an undulating line in pencil from top to bottom. (William Greenell Wallace married Elizabeth Carr Whittle (1888-1976) in 1919).

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Author’s draft (WCP6384.7381)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6384,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6384