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Letter from William Harvey to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/195 · Item · 20-Jan-19
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 second instalment of 'The Mystery Man' is to hand.
We find the first chapter of it very leisurely, and we may have to condense it considerably with the view of speeding it up. The second chapter is all right. The third chapter too, is good, but we would like it to be carried down to a more dramatic curtain. I shall be glad if you will send me a continuation of say, another 1,000 words, carrying the story forward considerably and finishing on a fairly dramatic situation. I shall be glad also if you will keep in view in future instalments to make the story brisk and dramatic, but, of coruse, avoiding anything luridly sensational.'
Letter from [F C Cordwell], Amalgamated Press Ltd. to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/196 · Item · 18-Feb-19
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: The Amalgamated Press Ltd., The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London EC4, Editorial Department. Signed.
'Many thanks for your short story, it was quote good. I have not read the three bottles of whisky yarn yet, but will do so as soon as possible. With regards sending you the two bottles of whisky it is impossible as there are not two bottles of whisky in the wide world.'
Letter from William Harvey to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/197 · Item · 19-Feb-19
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.
'Instalement 4 of ' The Woman Pays' is approved and I shall be glad to have instalment 5 at your earliest.
This reads very well and maintains the interest, but we feel that, compared with much of your work with which we are familiar, it is quiet and restrained. If you feel that you could give us greater strength in the treatment of the narrative without altering your scheme, you might consider the point. Probably when Dick returns you will have opportunities for strength that do not exist at present.'
Letter from [F C Cordwell], Amalgamated Press Ltd. to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/198 · Item · 10-Mar-19
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: The Amalgamated Press Ltd., The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London EC4, Editorial Department. Signed. Stamped 'six pence'.
'I have arragned for you to have the serial rights to 'The girl without a home' and if you will come up to see me this week I will give you a copy of the volume from which you may take a copy of the story. You must however guarantee to return these volumes to me.
Please let me know which day you will be up in order that I may arrange to be in to see you.'
Letter from Cotterill & Cromb to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/199 · Item · 12-Mar-19
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Cotterill & Cromb, Editors and authors agents, Lennox House, Norfolk Street, Strand WC2, London.
'We have pleasure in enclosing cheque for £124:14:9 as per statement below. By cheque from John Leng & Co., for 'The Mystery Man' and 'The Woman Pays'.
Postscript in manuscript hand: 'I have phoned C&C and they reply admitting their mistake which is only in this a/c. Leng's have it correctly. HJA 13/3/19.'
Letter from G Herbert Thring to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/2 · Item · 23 Jul 1895
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed paper: The Society of Authors (Incorporated)
'The price for second serial rights is so very small I should hardly think it worth your while to try. The provincial papers pay about £5 for these rights. The trouble and expense involved in placing them is scarcely covered by the returns [133].' Signed.
Letter from William Harvey to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/200 · Item · 15-Mar-19
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 shall be in London on Wednesday 19th current, and shall be obliged if you will call to see me at our London Office, 186 Fleet Street, at 3 o'clock afternoon on that day. As I have a number of appointments, I hope the day and hour will suit you.
The two stories you are at present engaged upon are getting along very well, and we would need to be looking ahead for successors. I shall be glad if you will turn the matter over in your mind, between now and Wednesday, when we could discuss any ideas which you have.'
Letter from William Harvey to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/201 · Item · 28-Mar-19
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.
'With reference to our interview last week, I shall be glad to see the MS of the reprint of 'The Girl Without a Home' at your earliest convenience. We shall have an opening presently which the story might suit.'
Letter from [F C Cordwell], Amalgamated Press Ltd. to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/202 · Item · 28-Mar-19
Part of Herbert Allingham

Headed notepaper: The Amalgamated Press Ltd., The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London EC4, Editorial Department. Signed.
‘Please do not fail to let me have the first instalment of 'Judgement' by Monday, I shall then require an insallment each following Monday as I am using the story at once. Will you please make the encentric [sic] Frenchman story up to date then I shall be happy to use the story. This can be done with a few strokes of the pen.’

Manuscript jottings on verso.