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GEORGE PHILIP & SON,

GEOGRAPHICAL & EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS & PRINTERS

98 VICTORIA ROAD

LONDON N.W.10

EST[ABLISHE]D. 1834

CITY OFFICES: 32 FLEET STREET, E.C.4

32, Fleet Street,

London,

E.C.4.

4th October, 1949.

ED/BL

W. G. Wallace² Esq[uire].,

61 East Avenue,

Bournemouth.

Dear Sir,

Anthology of Descriptive Prose and Verse³ — Mrs. F. C. K. Anderson⁴.

We have in preparation an anthology of extracts of descriptive writing, and we should very much like to include in it two short extracts from "The Malay Archipelago" by A. R. Wallace (1886)⁵. We have been in touch with the publishers, Mess[ieur]s. Macmillan, who tell us that the rights of this work are held by yourself. The extracts are as follows:

Chap[ter]. XVII Celebes. p[age]. 249 "During my stay ……" to p[age]. 251 "…… out of doors all night."

p[age]. 258 "The next morning ………" to p[age]. 259 "….the horrible cauldrons."

We shall be very much obliged if you will kindly say whether you would have any objection to the inclusion of this material in the anthology. We should, of course, make the usual acknowledgements to the work, the author, and yourself as his representative.

Yours faithfully, | GEORGE PHILIP & SON LIMITED⁶.

E. G. Godfrey [signature] p[er] p[ro] [initials illeg.]

Director and Managing Editor.