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Letter from H.G. Wells, Woking, to William Morris Colles, 1896 May 31 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
188993
Accession number
MA 14730
Creator
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written on embossed letterhead stationery from: Lynton, / Maybury Road, / Woking.
Stamped with date of receipt: 1 JU 96.
Concluding passage regarding serial rights has been underlined in blue pencil.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing him that he will be sending him by tomorrow's post "the 'War of the Worlds, with the parts which still to be written, in dummy", and that the book rights in both America and England are held by "Messrs Heinemann" who has "arranged I believe to publish simultaneously with Messrs Macmillan of New York. There is therefore only the Am. serial run which is unprovided for."