BIB_ID
188990
Accession number
MA 14727
Creator
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Receipted with a stamp "6 Mar 1908".
Written on embossed letterhead stationery from: Spade House, Sandgate.
The book referred to here as the "What I believe book" probably corresponds to the book by Wells published in 1908 under the title "First and last things."
Written on embossed letterhead stationery from: Spade House, Sandgate.
The book referred to here as the "What I believe book" probably corresponds to the book by Wells published in 1908 under the title "First and last things."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing the literary agent Cazenove that he has just finished the "What I believe book" and that he is asking (Horace) Horsnell "to make a new set of duplicate copies & to call in what you have & replace them by full completed copies", and adding that he thinks that "there is a good to be done with this book on your side and I want you to do your best"; discussing publication plans for the book, writing that he thinks it would be best to publish it "this autumn" as he wants it "out of the way before Tono Bungay appears", after which "I want to rely completely on fiction"; mentioning serial rights and "some possibilities on the American side" and that he thinks "Reynolds and in fact all our system of selling is on trial"; stating that he is convinced that the book is "Saleable stuff" and that "even the metaphysics with its treatment of Pragmatism is just in the key of current discussion & curiosity."
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