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ALL/11/105
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Letter from H Wentworth James (Herbert Wentworth) to Herbert Allingham
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- 2 Feb 1907 (Creation)
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1 piece, Typescript document
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(1867-1936)
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Headed notepaper: 27 Southdean Gardens, Wimbledon Park SW. Signed.
'I thank you for your letter, and am very much interested to find you are the author of that excellent story 'Max the Magnificent', a part of which I have read with very great interest. I shall be very glad in a few weeks time to submit a synopsis on the lines you indicate for the N.B.P. and will do my best to make it as good as I can. I am quite with you in your remarks about boys liking 'character'. In a story for the B.B. I had a youth called Tosher, with certain strongly marked characteristics. Tosher took the readers fancy to such a degree that I wrote two serials round him. He will possibly appear in another. Later on perhaps you will let me give you a call to talk over the yarn. Meanwhile I hope the N.B.P. will be a big success. It certainly deserves to be.'
'I thank you for your letter, and am very much interested to find you are the author of that excellent story 'Max the Magnificent', a part of which I have read with very great interest. I shall be very glad in a few weeks time to submit a synopsis on the lines you indicate for the N.B.P. and will do my best to make it as good as I can. I am quite with you in your remarks about boys liking 'character'. In a story for the B.B. I had a youth called Tosher, with certain strongly marked characteristics. Tosher took the readers fancy to such a degree that I wrote two serials round him. He will possibly appear in another. Later on perhaps you will let me give you a call to talk over the yarn. Meanwhile I hope the N.B.P. will be a big success. It certainly deserves to be.'
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