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Letter from H J Garrish to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/130 · Item · 30 Jul 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Proforma reply: 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London EC. Signed.
‘We should like some more ‘Comrades True’ tomorrow (Tuesday). It is required urgently.'
Stamped and postmarked.
Letter from G H Cantle to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/131 · Item · 2 Aug 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, Chips, Comic Cuts, The Butterfly, Puck, The Jester, 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London EC. Signed.
'We shall require more of your 'Comrades True' next week. A fair amount of copy - two instalments. Please do your best to let us have them and oblige.'
Letter from H J Garrish to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/132 · Item · 16 Sep 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, Chips, Comic Cuts, The Butterfly, 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London EC. Signed.
‘I want you to close up ‘Comrades True’ in the next instalment as we have a new serial to produce that we cannot delay, and we wish to try your three chums in Puck in a series of complete stories of three thousand words per week. The Puck stories should be refined and the reverse of slangy. Also no mention of strong drink or pubs; more like the old Boy’s Own Paper type of adventure yarns.’
MS corrections.
Letter from H J Garrish to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/133 · Item · 23 Sep 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham

Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, Chips, Comic Cuts, The Butterfly, Puck, The Jester, 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London EC. Signed.
‘Your yarn of Potts is quite excellent. I suppose it is a take off of our “Monk Mortimer, The Man with the Thousand Millions”. We had better call the series “Bank Baltimore, The Man with the Million Thousands” so as to bring it home to the readers. Your character of the Keeper is very good with his superior airs. You might let us have his private opinion of Pots [sic] and also let the other character refer to him as Keeper. Perhaps the first story wants just a little alteration or rather a few lines of introduction to emphasise who Pots [sic] and his keeper are so that they will be impressed upon the mind of the reader and the relations they bear to each other. If you ever fancy doing some Kenneth Mugg's in the style you might turn us out some of about 2,500words. I enclose your yarn for alteration and intend to run them in place of Comrades True giving a few adventure stories of the Comrades in Puck as was my previous decision. We are in want also of Comic stories of a broad but natural style for the other three ½d papers. They should be 2,200 words and either single stories or series. The name of the keeper also should be changed.'
MS corrections.

On verso: Ballooning, Alpine Climbing, Parachute, Big Game, Air Ship, Bull fighting, Steeplechase Jockey
Letter from H J Garrish to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/134 · Item · 14 Oct 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, Chips, Comic Cuts, The Butterfly, 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London EC. Signed.
'This is quite good, but just one or two alterations. Leave out the references to beautiful women, also the valley of delight. It would savour too much of the fairy story. Valley of Gold or Diamonds would be better with a strange band of guardians of the treasure. Please keep the story within the bounds of possibility! That is to say no extraordinary races in extraordinary places, but just simply of the earth earthy. I see in the dying speech of the old sailor that he promises a sort of H.G.Wells' arrangement. But the electric man himself is quite enough for the readers to swallow for one time. Just keep them going in striking adventures like you did with ‘Comrades True’. Insert a few more lines descriptive of the electric man when he appears so as to bring him more vividly before the mind of the reader. The chaps who work him seem to appear very vaguely from: somewhere or other. You mought just go over this instalment and make these corrections and try and leave a vivid impression on the mind of the reader of what actually took place. Then please send in the instalment again and get on with the story as fast as you like as I intend it to start in next week’s Chips. Enclosed please return by Wednesday morning for illustration purposes.'
Letter from T Fisher Unwin to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/136 · Item · 7 Jan 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: T Fisher Unwin, 1 Adelphi Terrace, London WC. Addressed to Allingham, 12-13 Fetter Lane, EC. Signed.
'We have pleasure in enclosing herewith an early copy of our Xmas list, and trust you will find some books mentioned therein of interest to you. We take this opportunity of saying that when you next have a manuscript - or one of your friends has a manuscript - available for publication, it would give us extreme pleasure to be advised of the same and make a proposition regarding its publication and appearance in our lists. As you are probably aware, we publish not only in this country, but we have also a Colonial Library, a Continental Library, and we have relations with many of the leading publishers in the United States for the issue of our books in America.'
Invoice from Mrs. G Ninnes to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/137 · Item · 31 Dec 1907
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Mrs G. Ninnes, 59 and 60 Chancery Land (second floor), London EC. Signed.
Receipt for typewriting or duplicating services provided for the following stories: 'The Lights of London Town', 'Gretchen Haus', 'Ethel's Birthday', 'A Trip to the Farm', 'The Pride of Portland College', amounting to 17.11½.
Letter from Hamilton Edwards to [Herbert Allingham]
ALL/11/138 · Item · 23 Apr 1908
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, The Boys' Friend, The Boys' Herald, The Boys' Realm, Marvel Library, The Union Jack, Pluck Library, The Boys' Friend Library, Managing Director: Hamilton Edwards, 2 Carmelite House, Carmelite Street, London EC. Signed.
'I regret that I am unable to make use of the enclosed story, which is not at all on our lines. The drunkenness part is unpardonable in my papers and I could not possibly allow it to go in. The sort of thing I require is a simple, well-written school yarn with plenty of fun and perhaps a little pathos. Gambling may be introduced occasionally, but it must be very nicely done and the habit condemned. I would recommend you to read some of our school serials and get a good idea of their style before making another attempt. The work of Mr Henry St. John, Mr John Finnemore, Mr Charles Hamilton and others, will form excellent models.'
Draft letter from Herbert Allingham [to Hamilton Edwards]
ALL/11/139 · Item · nd [1908]
Part of Herbert Allingham
‘I was aware that my story “The Boy Who Won Out” was entirely different from the school yarns you publish and I only sent it on the chance you might be disposed to make a new departure. By the way with regard to your objection to the drunkenness episode I am tempted to remind you that the most popular school story ever written contains a chapter dealing with the same subject. I refer to the late Archdeacon Farrar’s 'Eric'. This story is very goody-goody but it has run through 36 editions and in chapter 8 the hero gets drunk with far less excuse than my hero has for his slip. My story was an attempt to describe real school life. However I can do the conventional stuff quite well. My 'A Regular Duffer', 'The Captain’s Fag' and 'Max the Magnificent' are all in this line. I will send you comedy of the sort very shortly. I know Mr. Henry St John’s work. It is very conventional of course but the author has a real sense of fun and his stuff is nearly always readable.’