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ALL/11/144
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Letter from W F Anderson to Herbert Allingham
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- 26 May 1908 (Creation)
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1 piece, Typescript document
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(1867-1936)
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Headed notepaper: The Dundee Courier, The Weekly News, The Weekly Welcome, The Red Letter, D C Thomson & Co. Ltd proprietors and publishers, Head office - Dundee, London office - 109 Fleet Street EC, Glasgow office - 136 West Nile Street. Signed.
'With reference to your letter of the 8th inst., we have now decided to begin publication of your story 'A Devil of a Woman' in our evening paper in the week after next. We hope to send you proofs of the first instalment when it is set. Since writing you last we have been in communication with the writer of the Detective series appearing in the 'Red Letter', and he assures us that he selected the name 'Michael Power' in entire ignorance of the fact that it had been used elsewhere. He further states: 'I may say that when thinking of a name I ran over the names of the most faous detectives I could remember in fiction, amongst them being 'Michael Dred'. I thought Michael a good name. It was uncommon, and I first hit upon 'Michael Strong'. Then it was pointed out to me that it was the name of a Mr Strong who was a near neighbour of ours. It would look as if I had borrowed his name and so I used 'Power''.'
'With reference to your letter of the 8th inst., we have now decided to begin publication of your story 'A Devil of a Woman' in our evening paper in the week after next. We hope to send you proofs of the first instalment when it is set. Since writing you last we have been in communication with the writer of the Detective series appearing in the 'Red Letter', and he assures us that he selected the name 'Michael Power' in entire ignorance of the fact that it had been used elsewhere. He further states: 'I may say that when thinking of a name I ran over the names of the most faous detectives I could remember in fiction, amongst them being 'Michael Dred'. I thought Michael a good name. It was uncommon, and I first hit upon 'Michael Strong'. Then it was pointed out to me that it was the name of a Mr Strong who was a near neighbour of ours. It would look as if I had borrowed his name and so I used 'Power''.'
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