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Receipted invoice from Mrs. G Ninnes to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/96 · Item · 1 Dec 1906
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 King and the Mermaid', 'The Rabbit King', 'By Another Hand', 'The Brother of Lionel Karin', 'The City of Sin', 'The Princess whom nobody wanted' and 'A Pawn in a Great Game', amounting to £1.2.0.
Received with thanks 3 Dec 1906.
Letter from Peter Keary to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/97 · Item · 21 Dec 1906
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: Beaulieu, Wimbledon Park, Surrey. Signed.
'I am sending you a copy of my new little book Get on or Get out. Perhaps sometime or other you may be able to read through it and find me a notice in the New London Journal.'
Letter from Alex Shand to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/98 · Item · 1 Dec 1906
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: The Dundee Courier, The Weekly News, The Weekly Welcome and The Red Letter, D C Thomson & Co. Ltd., Head Office - Dundee, London Office - 109 Fleet Street EC, Glasgow Office - 136 West Nile Street. Signed.
'Your MS has come to hand and we should be obliged if you could let us hold it for a few weeks for further consideration as we have a good many MS to deal with.'
Letter from Alex Shand to Herbert Allingham
ALL/11/99 · Item · 11 Dec 1906
Part of Herbert Allingham
Headed notepaper: The Dundee Courier, The Weekly News, The Weekly Welcome and The Red Letter, D C Thomson & Co. Ltd., Head Office - Dundee, London Office - 109 Fleet Street EC, Glasgow Office - 136 West Nile Street. Signed.
‘We are obliged for the offer of 'The Czar’s Chief Spy' but regret that the fact of its being a story dealing with Russian Political matters prevents us from accepting it, as we like our stories to deal with characters and events occurring in ordinary life. If at any time you have to offer a story whose scenes are laid in Great Britain and dealing with love and sensation incidents we shall be glad to hear from you.’
Photocopies
ALL/12 · Series · [1914-1927]
Part of Herbert Allingham

A4 photocopies 1914 - 1927 - various marked P on Appendix 1 list. Also some illustrative photocopies eg Books for Tommy in the Trenches (Woman's Weekly)
A4 photocopies - miscellaneous, including several by Em Allingham or Em + Herbert (often as Tess Allan wood)

A3 photocopies
File for Christian Globe
Package re boys papers (inc Barrington's Fag)
People's Journal serial openings & other 1920s serials
Home Mirror Story 1927 (the first for Anne Cooper)
File for AP serials - including an example of Martin Steel and 12 lady detectives, a series to which HJA contributed. Also including a story by Harold Garrish HJA's first AP editor

File including samples of Em Allingham's stories for the Christian Globe + HJA serials for The Miracle
1894 - How the Sunday Companion is produced Other material re Sunday Companion, Home Companion, Family Journal and Picture Show

Miscellaneous, non HJA - includes Answers article by Stead 'Howe to Become a Journalist' + material from Puck, Butterfly, Young Folks Paper,

Non-HJA photocopy first issues of Tit-Bits and Answers
Boy's Stories
ALL/2 · Series · 1905-1929
Part of Herbert Allingham
Short stories and serials aimed at boys and published in juvenile magazines.
The Amazing Exploits of Houdini
ALL/2/1 · File · 2 Sep 1922-9 Jun 1923
Part of Herbert Allingham

Published pages from The Kinema Comic featuring the short story series: The Amazing Exploits of Houdini written by Harry Houdini and ghost written by Allingham.
[Pages featuring the Houdini stories only, not full issues.]

Stories included:
2 Sep 1922 - The Empty Trunk
9 Sep 1922 - A Shelter for the Night
16 Sep 1922 - Conner's Fight
23 Sep 1922 - The New Player
30 Sep 1922 - A Quiet Night
7 Oct 1922 - Two Little Cherubs
14 Oct 1922 - Not Quite a Joke
21 Oct 1922 - Young Arth Wright Captures a Client
28 Oct 1922 - The Rest Cure
4 Nov 1922 - The Wager
11 Nov 1922 - Houdini's Ghost
18 Nov 1922 - The Man in the Mask
25 Nov 1922 - The Forest Fire
2 Dec 1922 - The Hindu Charm
9 Dec 1922 - The String of Pearls
16 Dec 1922 - The Snowstorm
23 Dec 1922 - The House of Mystery
30 Dec 1922 - My Friend Dobson
6 Jan 1923 - Carlo Quik
13 Jan 1923 - The Strolling Players
20 Jan 1923 - The Iron Safe
27 Jan 1923 - When I was King
3 Feb 1923 - The Warehouse by the River
10 Feb 1923 - Shanghaied
17 Feb 1923 - The Haunted House
24 Feb 1923 - Houdini's Blunder
3 Mar 1923 - Flash Kennedy's Last Exploit
10 Mar 1923 - The Bank Robbers
17 Mar 1923 - In a Tight Corner
24 Mar 1923 - The Butler
31 Mar 1923 - The Mail Robbers
7 Apr 1923 - The Apaches
9 Jun 1923 - Pelham Webb's Last Case
The Frolicsome Five
ALL/2/11 · Item · 1907-1921
Part of Herbert Allingham
Short story: The Frolicsome Five published in New Boy's Paper c.1907-1908; published in Boys Cinema, 9 Oct 1921; set of gallery proofs.