BIB_ID
261888
Accession number
MA 6409.8
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
London, England, 1897 June 13.
Credit line
Gift of Damian Atkinson, 2006.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Marked "Private" in upper left corner.
Written from "Stanley Lodge, / Muswell Hill, N." on stationery engraved with the address.
This letter is one of a small collection of eight letters from Henley to various recipients written between 1890 and 1897 ( MA 6409.1-8).
Written from "Stanley Lodge, / Muswell Hill, N." on stationery engraved with the address.
This letter is one of a small collection of eight letters from Henley to various recipients written between 1890 and 1897 ( MA 6409.1-8).
Provenance
Gift of Damian Atkinson, 2006.
Summary
Saying "My friend, Mr. James McLaren Cobban, tells me that he has a story which he thinks would suit the D.M. [Daily Mail] to the life. On the advice of your brother, he sent it in to one of your editors, in the beginning of April. It was returned (after divers applications on his part) the other day; &, as he thinks, from the witness of his MS, unread. Do you care to reconsider it? He is a good man - (as The Red Sultan & The King of Andaman are there to show) - & I make lots of use of him on The N.O;" adding, in a postscript, "He has a very great notion of this story as a serial. It is good as a book."
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