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ALL/11/5
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Letter from Frank Girlman? to Herbert Allingham
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- 16 Mar 1904 (Creation)
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1 piece, Typescript document
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(1867-1936)
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Headed paper: London Daily Mail, London Evening News, Fiction Department, 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London. Addressed to H A Allingham, 5 Broughton Road, Ealing.
'If you had kept your story, the first instalment of which I return herewith, to human interest, I fancy I could have made you an offer for it, but as it is, I am afraid it becomes altogether too wild and improbable for my requirements. I like the way in which you have written it, and I do not see why, if you will remember our talk the other day, you should not write us a really good story. I must impress on you that the interest be of humanity and not of wild and improbable schemes.' Signed.
'If you had kept your story, the first instalment of which I return herewith, to human interest, I fancy I could have made you an offer for it, but as it is, I am afraid it becomes altogether too wild and improbable for my requirements. I like the way in which you have written it, and I do not see why, if you will remember our talk the other day, you should not write us a really good story. I must impress on you that the interest be of humanity and not of wild and improbable schemes.' Signed.
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