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ALL/11/244
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Letter from F.A. Wickhart to Herbert Allingham
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- 03-Oct-32 (Creation)
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(1867-1936)
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From: 7 Highbury Quadrant, London N5. Signed.
'So you have got to your seaside residence at last and I can well imagine the awful job you have had to move your 'goods and chattels' from Hadleigh. I wish we had come in contact a bit earlier as I might have saved you those extra pounds which I fear your original offer to the ungallant Colonel involved. [...]
Perhaps you can work the incident into a Christmas story and the 'officer' a copy to file and dream over. [...]
Now with regards to the Building Society, I phoned Evans and he said he had received the transfer form and hoped to have the cash ready to collect by last Friday. Not hearing from him, I phoned him just now and he tells me he had to return the form to Mrs Allingham because she had not filled it in correctly, but he has now got it back and hopes to have the cheque for her tomorrow. [...] I think Mr Evans might have been a bit more energetic, seeing that the delays have been mostly due to his apparent neglect.
That note of 1922 was a reminder of something I had altogether forgotten. I remember you writing the story for Bradley without any payment. It was C.W.B. all over. Only when you got him against the wall would he fork out. However the sale of the reprints has been some recompense.' [...]
'So you have got to your seaside residence at last and I can well imagine the awful job you have had to move your 'goods and chattels' from Hadleigh. I wish we had come in contact a bit earlier as I might have saved you those extra pounds which I fear your original offer to the ungallant Colonel involved. [...]
Perhaps you can work the incident into a Christmas story and the 'officer' a copy to file and dream over. [...]
Now with regards to the Building Society, I phoned Evans and he said he had received the transfer form and hoped to have the cash ready to collect by last Friday. Not hearing from him, I phoned him just now and he tells me he had to return the form to Mrs Allingham because she had not filled it in correctly, but he has now got it back and hopes to have the cheque for her tomorrow. [...] I think Mr Evans might have been a bit more energetic, seeing that the delays have been mostly due to his apparent neglect.
That note of 1922 was a reminder of something I had altogether forgotten. I remember you writing the story for Bradley without any payment. It was C.W.B. all over. Only when you got him against the wall would he fork out. However the sale of the reprints has been some recompense.' [...]
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