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ALL/11/280
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Letter from William Harvey to Herbert Allingham
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- 18-Jan-34 (Creation)
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(1867-1936)
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Headed notepaper: John Leng & Co. Ltd., Courier and Advertiser, My Weekly Secrets, People's Journal, People's Friend, 7 Bank Street, Dundee. Signed.
'Many thanks for sending me instalment 10 of 'Wedded to a Monster'. The story is going all right, but there is one point that is giving us concern. You appear to have transformed Charles Crewe and he has become an apparently very respectable character. I have no doubt you have a perfectly good reason for this, but it is a bit puzzling, and I am wondering whether the reader should not be let into the secret of why he is reformed.
I may be all wrong, but I had an idea at the beginning that Crewe was really an impostor [sic], and that the old housekeeper was in league with him. If I am right in that, possibly his change in character and his efforts to keep Hilda from poisoning Gwen are inspired by the thought that if she were to be found out is would mean financial disaster for him.
I am returning the instalment so that you may look at it in the light of these remarks, and if you think the reader should be enlightened on the point, the necessary paragraph could be introduced.
We should like you to carry the story to 17 instalments, the last one being the usual short one of 1,000 words only.’
'Many thanks for sending me instalment 10 of 'Wedded to a Monster'. The story is going all right, but there is one point that is giving us concern. You appear to have transformed Charles Crewe and he has become an apparently very respectable character. I have no doubt you have a perfectly good reason for this, but it is a bit puzzling, and I am wondering whether the reader should not be let into the secret of why he is reformed.
I may be all wrong, but I had an idea at the beginning that Crewe was really an impostor [sic], and that the old housekeeper was in league with him. If I am right in that, possibly his change in character and his efforts to keep Hilda from poisoning Gwen are inspired by the thought that if she were to be found out is would mean financial disaster for him.
I am returning the instalment so that you may look at it in the light of these remarks, and if you think the reader should be enlightened on the point, the necessary paragraph could be introduced.
We should like you to carry the story to 17 instalments, the last one being the usual short one of 1,000 words only.’
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