Item ALL/11/105 - Letter from H Wentworth James (Herbert Wentworth) to Herbert Allingham

ALL/11/105

Letter from H Wentworth James (Herbert Wentworth) to Herbert Allingham

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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.'

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