Item ALL/11/134 - Letter from H J Garrish to Herbert Allingham

ALL/11/134

Letter from H J Garrish to Herbert Allingham

Item

1 piece, Typescript document

Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, Chips, Comic Cuts, The Butterfly, 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London EC. Signed.
'This is quite good, but just one or two alterations. Leave out the references to beautiful women, also the valley of delight. It would savour too much of the fairy story. Valley of Gold or Diamonds would be better with a strange band of guardians of the treasure. Please keep the story within the bounds of possibility! That is to say no extraordinary races in extraordinary places, but just simply of the earth earthy. I see in the dying speech of the old sailor that he promises a sort of H.G.Wells' arrangement. But the electric man himself is quite enough for the readers to swallow for one time. Just keep them going in striking adventures like you did with ‘Comrades True’. Insert a few more lines descriptive of the electric man when he appears so as to bring him more vividly before the mind of the reader. The chaps who work him seem to appear very vaguely from: somewhere or other. You mought just go over this instalment and make these corrections and try and leave a vivid impression on the mind of the reader of what actually took place. Then please send in the instalment again and get on with the story as fast as you like as I intend it to start in next week’s Chips. Enclosed please return by Wednesday morning for illustration purposes.'

Status: Open. Access is subject to signing the Regulations for Access form, unless the records are restricted under the Data Protection Act 2018 or under exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000