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ALL/11/282
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Letter from William Harvey to Herbert Allingham
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- 25-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.
'I am favoured with your letter of 23rd inst. and wired to you this morning. It is not easy in correspondence to see each other's point of view, but I do not want to repeat that all of us here have been rather disappointed with this sudden change over of character on the part of Crewe, and we feel if we have been disappointed our readers would be sure to be disappointed also.
As I said in my last letter, there seems absolutely no doubt that Charles Crewe was a rascal, and that makes this sudden conversion all the more difficult for us to swallow. He need niether be a murderer nor a monster, but we think he ought to be kept in some degree at least consistent as a bad character.
There seems no reason why your story should not follow the lines you indicated, even though you keep him true to his earlier character.
I know you will do your best to meet out view, and as some days have been lost over this correspondence I sincerely trust that you will be able to let me have the revised instalment by Monday.'
'I am favoured with your letter of 23rd inst. and wired to you this morning. It is not easy in correspondence to see each other's point of view, but I do not want to repeat that all of us here have been rather disappointed with this sudden change over of character on the part of Crewe, and we feel if we have been disappointed our readers would be sure to be disappointed also.
As I said in my last letter, there seems absolutely no doubt that Charles Crewe was a rascal, and that makes this sudden conversion all the more difficult for us to swallow. He need niether be a murderer nor a monster, but we think he ought to be kept in some degree at least consistent as a bad character.
There seems no reason why your story should not follow the lines you indicated, even though you keep him true to his earlier character.
I know you will do your best to meet out view, and as some days have been lost over this correspondence I sincerely trust that you will be able to let me have the revised instalment by Monday.'
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