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ALL/11/62
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Letter from Robert Barr to [Herbert Allingham]
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- 11 Mar 1906 (Creation)
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1 piece, Typescript document
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(1867-1936)
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Headed notepaper: Editor Robert Barr, The Idler, 33 Henrietta Street, Strand, London WC. Typescript address: Hillhead, Woldingham, Surrey. Signed.
'The novel to which you refer is 'The Countess Tekla', but I wrote a short story much more nearly resembling your opening chapter called 'Gentlemen! The King!' which was published in Prarson's Magazine so years ago and is republished, this month I think, in the Novel Magazine. I can never work up successfully the idea of some one else, nor could I collaborate. I have tried collaboration in the matter of plays, but I always get out of patience with the other fellow, or he gets out of patience with me. You don't need anyone to collaborate with you. Your opening is excellent, and the plan of the story is good. As you go on difficulties will be overcome or will disappear, and if the novel 'catches on' when finished, the profit and glory will not need to be shared with anyone else.
'The novel to which you refer is 'The Countess Tekla', but I wrote a short story much more nearly resembling your opening chapter called 'Gentlemen! The King!' which was published in Prarson's Magazine so years ago and is republished, this month I think, in the Novel Magazine. I can never work up successfully the idea of some one else, nor could I collaborate. I have tried collaboration in the matter of plays, but I always get out of patience with the other fellow, or he gets out of patience with me. You don't need anyone to collaborate with you. Your opening is excellent, and the plan of the story is good. As you go on difficulties will be overcome or will disappear, and if the novel 'catches on' when finished, the profit and glory will not need to be shared with anyone else.
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