BIB_ID
188981
Accession number
MA 14748
Creator
Hackett, Edmund Francis, -1954, sender.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.1 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Typed on printed letterhead stationery from Vanity Fair in London.
With a note evidently addressed to literary agent William Morris Colles, written on Hackett's letter in manuscript by H.G. Wells and signed with his initials, stating that he has told him (Hackett) "that if he can use Lady Harman [i.e. Wells's 1914 novel "The wife of Sir Isaac Harman"] before Sept publication & pay £400 he had better go to you", adding that "publication cannot be delayed", that he looks to the recipient to assure "effective payment" and make arrangements with Macmillan to protect copyright; adding in a postscript that he may be reached at Sir Horace Plunkett's on Monday and at Lord Dunsany's on Wednesday.
With a note evidently addressed to literary agent William Morris Colles, written on Hackett's letter in manuscript by H.G. Wells and signed with his initials, stating that he has told him (Hackett) "that if he can use Lady Harman [i.e. Wells's 1914 novel "The wife of Sir Isaac Harman"] before Sept publication & pay £400 he had better go to you", adding that "publication cannot be delayed", that he looks to the recipient to assure "effective payment" and make arrangements with Macmillan to protect copyright; adding in a postscript that he may be reached at Sir Horace Plunkett's on Monday and at Lord Dunsany's on Wednesday.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Asking Wells if he is at work on a new story, and if so, whether it would be likely to appeal to the readers of Vanity Fair; writing that he liked Wells's novel "The passionate friends", and stating that if he "were to turn out another on similar lines I would like to be one of the first to whom you would submit it."
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