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Letter from R N Chance to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/158 · Item · 19 Oct 1909
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, Chips, Comic Cuts, The Butterfly, Puck, The Jester, 25 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London EC. Signed.
‘I have read your instalment of 'Ruby Wray' and think it is strengthened considerably by the alteration. I also think that you will be able to carry on the story in such a manner as to make it interesting to the reader. I don’t for a moment suggest that you should introduce any ‘sensational’ incidents into the story. At the same time as suggested by your sub-heading a little pathos in every instalment would hold the readers attention I think.’
Letter from Percy Bishop to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/159 · Item · 17 Dec 1909
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: The Aldine Publishing Company Ld., 1, 2 and 3 Crown Court, Chancery Lane, London WC. Signed.
‘I have much pleasure in consenting to the arrangement you propose, that is to say, that we abandon our claim to the right to republish your school story 'The Captain’s Fag' in the ‘Boys’ Own Library’ for a payment of £25.’
Copy letter from Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/16 · Item · 6 Nov 1904
Part of Herbert Allingham
Signed. Unidentified recipient.
‘I see you used my short story “The Piccadilly Circus” in your last issue.If you can let me have whatever is due to me on account thereof before the end of the week it would be a convenience and the favour would be returned by [...] yours faithfully HJA’
Letter from F C Cordwell to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/160 · Item · 5 Jan 1910
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, Chips, Comic Cuts, The Butterfly, Puck, The Jester, 25 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London EC. Signed.
‘Thanks for 'Driven from Home'. Will you please let me have the next instalment by Friday, typed if possible. It is easier to judge the length when it is typewritten and saves me a lot of trouble when making up the paper. I have just finished the last instalment and think it a very good curtain. Jack must, of course, escape somehow and take Reuben Price with him. We do not want him to fall into the hands of Reuben Price again if it can be avoided.’
Letter from William Harvey to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/161 · Item · 31-May-18
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Dundee Advertiser, Evening Telegraph and Post, The Happy Home, People's Journal, People's Friend, My Weekly, John Leng & Co. Ltd., 7 Bank Street, Dundee. Signed.
'I am favoured with your letter of 29th inst., embodying the synopsis of a proposed 'People's Journal' story. Generally speaking we think this is on the right lines, but we shall be glad if you will give the following points your best consideration.
(1) So far as the synopsis goes the woman does not seem to have a very compelling reason for deserting her children. The reason, however, may be made sufficiently strong by what you write.
(2) With reference to your remark as to having a little more freedom in the 'People's Journal', we do not want to handicap you in any way, but at the same time we desire to state that we place great value on stories having the ring of plausibility. Consequently, we should like you to be as natural as possible in your incidents, avoiding anything which might be called super-fantastic or anything of the ultra-sensational atmosphere such as was prominent in the early chapters of your story - 'The Steel Clutch', and in an earlier reprint story which we bought from you and which you will recall dealt with the work of a Russian Secret Society in London.
(3) As the 'Journal' is a domestic newspaper you must be careful to avoid sexual questions or anything suggesting immorality.
(4) The impression left by the synopsis is that the story will be a rather sad one. We should like you to relieve it in some way, but we do not wish you to get this effect by bringing in any low character. We would rather prefer that the element of hope should be introduced by the workings of some character - it might be one of the grandmothers, or an aunt of the children whose business it would be to bring things finally right, and whose efforts towards this end would always hold the sympathy of the reader. Alternatively this hopeful side of the story might appear in the strength of character of the husband who never lost faith in his wide, and who, knowing that he himself was innocent, believed that everything would come all right in the end.
These are suggestions only, and not meant to bind you or crap the development of the story in any way. Probably you already see a plan for getting this effect. We know we can safely leave the matter in your hands. In these days of short sizes a first instalment must not exceed 6,000 words, but I know that you can get a good number within these limits. As I mentioned before, we want to start the story at once, and I shall be glad therefore to have the opening instalment at your earliest. If any point in the foregoing is not clear to you, I will be glad to hear from you.'
Letter from R N Chance to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/162 · Item · 20-Feb-11
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, 25 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street. Signed.
'In reply to your letter, I shall be very sorry for you to finish the story in the manner you suggest. On the other hand, I could not pay such a price as you suggest for the story, which has been running such a length of time. You started the story at the rate of one guinea a thousand, and it has always been usual for authors to complete yarns at the original rate.
As you have left the instalments until the last moment - to finish the story up in one instalment would inconvenience me considerably, as it would not give me the slightest chance to make a fresh arrangement. Therefore I should be glad if you could see your way of doing for me another ten or eleven thousand words of this story so that I can start another yarn after it. Otherwise I should be compelled to have the end of the story written by another author, which besides being a difficult task would be a great pity.
You might turn this over in your mind and let me have a reply by return, as I am anxious to know exactly where I stand.'
Letter from R N Chance to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/163 · Item · 17-Feb-11
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Editorial Department, Chips, Comic Cuts, The Butterfly, Puck, The Jester, 25 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London EC. Signed.
‘In reply to your letter I have found that 'The Lights of Home' is extremely popular with my readers and only last week it attained a high place in a competition. Under the circumstances and considering that the paper is doing well I do not want to finish it up yet, so please continue with it until you hear from me to the contrary. In regard to 'The Little Mother' I have let one of my other authors have a shot at it because I know at present you could not tackle it on top of your other story – as you have said. We will chat over other schemes when you are next in town.’
Letter from F C Cordwell to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/164 · Item · 05-Apr-16
Part of Herbert Allingham

Headed notepaper: The Amalgamated Press Limited, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London EC, Editorial Department. Signed.
‘In regard to our conversation of yesterday I beg to confirm our verbal arrangement. That you supply me with not less than two serial stories weekly for two years from this date, at the same terms as the present – in return for which you may hold the copyright of 'Driven from Home' which originally appeared in The Butterfly.

On verso - Address for H Duke Swinitrod?, The Savoy Apts, 327 South Hope St, Los Angeles USA. Also pencil calculations.
Letter from William Harvey to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/165 · Item · 20-Dec-17
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Dundee Advertiser, Evening Telegraph and Post, The Happy Home, People's Journal, People's Friend, My Weekly, John Leng & Co. Ltd., 7 Bank Street, Dundee. Signed.
'The first instalment of 'A Mother at Bay' as extended is quite satisfactory and I shall be glad if you will push ahead and let me have the second instalment at your earliest.'
Letter from William Harvey to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/166 · Item · 11-Jan-18
Part of Herbert Allingham

Headed notepaper: Dundee Advertiser, Evening Telegraph and Post, The Happy Home, People's Journal, People's Friend, My Weekly, John Leng & Co. Ltd., 7 Bank Street, Dundee. Signed. Addressed to Allingham at 7 Harlington House, Blomfield Crescent, Bayswater London W.
'I had hoped to have had from you before now the second instalment of 'A Mother at Bay'. Seeing that the New Year is now getting well on the way, I shall be glad if you will let me have it and endeavour to keep me supplied with one instalment per week.'

Annotated with calculations in ink, and on verso.