WCP6409

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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