WCP6385

Author’s draft (WCP6385.7382)

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[No address]

Rough copy

Ap[ri]l. 10th 1948

Mess[ieu]rs. Macmillan & Co[mpany]. L[imi]t[e]d2

Dear Sirs,

I have received a request from a Mr. S. H. Evans3 for permission to use extracts amounting to 1500 words from my father’s "The Malay Archipelago"4 and including four of the illustrations, in a Colonial Anthology5 which he is compiling.

I think of complying with this request but I am not sure what the position is with regard to the illustrations. I presume the actual blocks are your property. I should be greatly obliged if you would advise me what would be a reasonable charge for the use of these extracts & illustrations in addition to a voucher copy of the work.

While I am writing on this subject could you tell me whether the anthology of Wild Animal Stories edited by Mr. J. T. Sanderson has yet been published by Mess[ieu]rs. Knopf of New York6 or by Mess[ieu]rs. Harrap7 for the British Empire Edition?

[No valediction]8

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1
This is a rough draft in pencil on a lined exercise book page. The page is numbered [WP16/1/41] in pencil in the top LH corner.
2
London publishers, founded in 1843.
3
Evans, S. Harold (known as Harold Evans) (No dates or biographical details found).
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
Evans, H. (Ed.) (1949) Men in the Tropics: A Colonial Anthology London, William Hodge & Co.
6
Sanderson, I. T. (Ed.) (1946) Animal Tales, An anthology of Animal Literature of all Countries New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
7
George G. Harrap, Ltd. (London & Bombay) is a now defunct publisher of high quality specialty books, many of them educational. No record found of Animal Tales having been published by them.
8
The author is Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW (not shown on the letter).
9
The draft has been written on the back of a list written in ink (in the author’s or another hand) of heraldic symbols with dates.

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Status: Draft transcription [Author’s draft (WCP6385.7382)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6385,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6385