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Letter from Charles Perry Brown to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/103 · Item · 16 Jan 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Stamped address: 'Brookeleas', 3 Eden Road, Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells. Signed.
'Re. B's Paper. Thanks for your letter and I quite agree with you in all you say in it. Mr Blogg will receive by this post quite a number of short illustrated tales for you to go on with and I will bring up - or send- two volumes to cut away at - today or tomorrow. I shall be out in my calculation if you do not make the paper pay.'
Letter from Charles Perry Brown to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/104 · Item · 31 Jan 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham

Stamped address: 'Brookeleas', 3 Eden Road, Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells. Signed.
'My engagements in Stock Exchange business absorb all my available resources - at present: and I am sorry I cannot do what you suggest for the N. B.'s Paper. Not that I quite agree with you re the potency of the 'D. Mail' ad for which £300 in a lump! is a fearful risk to run. I have not had time to thoroughly look through all you have done for the 'Paper' but it certainly has a much better chance of success than before. Your story opens well and you are in much closer touch with your readers. This is a great thing. As I shall be in town in a few days and hope to see you I will not write more here but keep it to 'tire you out' with in Fleet St.'

On verso - jotted sums in pencil.
Letter from H Wentworth James (Herbert Wentworth) to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/105 · Item · 2 Feb 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: 27 Southdean Gardens, Wimbledon Park SW. Signed.
'I thank you for your letter, and am very much interested to find you are the author of that excellent story 'Max the Magnificent', a part of which I have read with very great interest. I shall be very glad in a few weeks time to submit a synopsis on the lines you indicate for the N.B.P. and will do my best to make it as good as I can. I am quite with you in your remarks about boys liking 'character'. In a story for the B.B. I had a youth called Tosher, with certain strongly marked characteristics. Tosher took the readers fancy to such a degree that I wrote two serials round him. He will possibly appear in another. Later on perhaps you will let me give you a call to talk over the yarn. Meanwhile I hope the N.B.P. will be a big success. It certainly deserves to be.'
Letter from Edward G. Hawke to Mrs. Allingham
ALL/11/106 · Item · 17 Feb 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Proforma letter: The Tribune Literary Editor's Memorandum. Signed.
'Dear Madam, Thanks for your note. I am using a portion of one of your stories tonight. The only objection that I have to your charming fairy tales is that they tend to be a little too long for our restricted space. They should be written in sections of 600 words- preferably not more than two portions or three at most to a tale. The present tale will make four sections. I have not read the others yet, as I have had great pressure of work’
Letter from Charles Perry Brown to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/107 · Item · 21 Feb 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Stamped address: 'Brookeleas', 3 Eden Road, Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells. Signed.
'Although the News Agent here sends me regularly a copy of the N B P I thank you most heartily for the advance copy you kindly forward me. The [?] story 'Max' demands and receives immediate perusal. It will delight every boy. A very excellent and powerful piece of work and should send the circulation of the N B P up to 100,000. I am looking out some more good illustratoins and hope to send them by post this week and next week the weather may, I hope, not prevent my usual visit to Fleet St. I amy be able to suggest an inexpensive method of 'working up the sale' but old effort in this line costs a lot of money - but if carefully used it comes back 'after many days'. I do not like to venture any remark about 'many'. But I hope you may 'long sustain the wonderful school interest 'now on' - he is a rare 'character' and 'all alive!'. The British Key incident, wonderfully good!.'
Letter from J A Hammerton to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/108 · Item · 13 Feb 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: London Magazine, Editorial Department, 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London EC. Stamped signature.
'Our usual custom is to pay on publication or more often a month in advance, but in order to meet the wishes of contributors I have so frequently gone from this rule that in the last week I discovered that I had paid for an amount of stock far in excess of my allowance. This is rather unfortunate as it renders it necessary for me to refrain for some time from paying in advance any contribution. As soon as possible, however, I shall endeavour to secure payment for your story as that, if I am not mistaken, is essentially a winter story and is not like to be used during the sumer so that it will be too long to expect you to wait until next winter for payment. I regret this very much, but your request has come at a very unfortunate time and all I can promise is to do my best within a month from date. If you do not hear from me again within the next four weeks please write and I shall then endeavour to settle the matter at once.'
Letter from George G Magnus to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/109 · Item · 27 Feb 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: The Cambridge Literary Society, Savoy House 115 Strand, London WCand at Chelsea SW. Managing Director: George G Magnus, Secretary: Claude Scudamore. Signed.
'We should be much obliged if you would let us have a cheque for Mr [Parnell's] story at your early convenience as the arrangement was that payment should be made on acceptance.'
Letter from W N Flower to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/11 · Item · 19 Oct 1904
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed paper: The Pictorial Magazine, Editorial Department, 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London. Addressed to Herbert J. Allingham, 5 Broughton Road, Ealing. Manuscript annotations. Signed.
'In reply to your letter, Mr Sisley has calculated up your story again and makes it come out 3,300 words.'
Letter from George G Magnus to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/110 · Item · 1 Mar 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: The Cambridge Literary Society, Savoy House 115 Strand, London WCand at Chelsea SW. Managing Director: George G Magnus, Secretary: Claude Scudamore. Signed.
'We have to thank you for your letter of the 27th inst. enclosing cheque. Receipt for which we enclose herewith.'
P.S. 'Shall hope to have some of your work. Editors are frequently asking us for strong stories, others are so hard to get. Mr. Hamilton Edwards has just asked me for some. Can you supply? - £1-10-1 to £2-2-0 per [MS].'
Letter from W.E.Ward to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/111 · Item · 2 Apr 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Tennant and Ward, Publishers, 287 Fourth Avenue New York.
'Mr Elder suggests that I write to you and briefly outlines the subject in the enclosed letter. I came over here in November and again in January at the request of Mr Fletcher Robinson to investigate mismanagement in the Transatlantic Press Alliance Ld., a firm of literary agents with which he was connected. Mr Robinson's unexpected death, five days after I sailed, relieved me of this work and I propose remaining here for a considerable time and taking up a similar business. I shall confine myself as far as possible to placing material with the better class magazines, and to books. Is there any way in which I can serve you, or any of your friends? Are you at any time in want of material from this side; or can I aid you in any way towards obtaining it? If I can be of any use to you please let me know. I am - or was - the Ward of this firm; we started a small magazine when I was over here several years ago. I mail you a recent issue. ... I see the Elders frequently; they are both flourishing - in health - and Elder is extending his business connections month by month and will soon, I trust, be fairy recouping for his unfortunate business in the sunny West.'