WCP6409

Letter (WCP6409.7408)

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JONATHAN CAPE LIMITED

THIRTY BEDFORD SQUARE

LONDON W.C.1

3rd April 1940

W. G. Wallace2 Esq[uire].,

61, East Avenue,

Bournemouth.

Dear Sir,

We are shortly going to publish a book entitled FRIENDS OF A LIFETIME3, which will consist of letters written by some sixty correspondents to Sir Sydney Cockerell4. Among them are four letters from the late Alfred Russel Wallace. We should be very grateful if you could let us have your formal permission to print these letters in our volume.

Yours faithfully | Rupert Hart-Davis5 [signature]

DIRECTOR

RHD/JA

[Note in recipient’s hand]

Ap[ri]l. 4 Asked for copies before giving formal consent.

WGW

The letter is typewritten. The page numbered WP16/1/93/1 in pencil in the top RH corner.
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
Meynell, V. (Ed.) (1940) Friends of a lifetime: letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, London, Jonathan Cape.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle (1867-1962) English museum curator and collector. He was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1908-1937.
Hart-Davis, Rupert Charles (1907-1999) English publisher, editor and man of letters. He worked first at William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 -1931 and was a director at Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1933-1940. He founded his own publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. after War service in 1946.

Please cite as “WCP6409,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6409