Item ALL/11/193 - Letter from Cotterill and Cromb to Herbert Allingham

Headed notepaper: Cotterill & Cromb, Editors and authors agents, Lennox House, Norfolk Street, Strand WC2, London.
'Enclosed please find copy of a letter we have received from Mr Harvey to-day, and the draft agreement referred to in same. With regard to Clause 5 of the Agreement, nothing has been said about Book rights in the negotiations so far, but we quite see their object in introducing this condition and it is not unreasonable. They want to protect themselves against possible competition in the shape of cheap books, which might seriously affect the value of the stories for second or third serial use. We shall be glad to have your views on this and any other points in the Agreement.'

[Typescript] Copy of letter dated January 8, 1919 form Mr William Harvey John Leng & Co. Received by Cotterill and Cromn Jan. 9, 1919: 'Dear Sirs, With reference to your letter of 6th inst confirming the terms set forth in mine of 3rd inst. with reference to Mr H J Allingham's future work, I send herewith a draft agreement which puts the matter in proper form. I shall be glad if you will revise it onMr Allingham's behaf and thereafter return it to me when I shall have copies made for signature.'

[Typescript] Memorandum of Agreement between Mr Herbert J Allingham, author, residing at 7 Hurlingham House, Blomfield Crescent, Bayswater London W, and Messrs John Leng & Co., Ltd., printers and publishers, Dundee, dated 6th January 1919.