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Reference code
ALL/11/35
Title
Draft letter from Herbert Allingham to [Editor, The Big Budget]
Date(s)
- nd [1905] (Creation)
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1 piece, Manuscript
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Name of creator
(1867-1936)
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Scope and content
Signed.
‘The story is perhaps a bit old-fashioned – I was only 17 when I wrote it and fresh from school. At the same time I doubt whether your policy of insisting that all school stories should be made to the one pattern is sound. Boys – the most fickle public in existence – are always craving for 'something different' – Pardon me if I seem to be trying to teach you your own trade and believe me yours faithfully HJA.’
‘The story is perhaps a bit old-fashioned – I was only 17 when I wrote it and fresh from school. At the same time I doubt whether your policy of insisting that all school stories should be made to the one pattern is sound. Boys – the most fickle public in existence – are always craving for 'something different' – Pardon me if I seem to be trying to teach you your own trade and believe me yours faithfully HJA.’
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