BIB_ID
431640
Accession number
MA 1617.350
Creator
Payn, James, 1830-1898.
Display Date
London, England, 1878?.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 15.2 x 10.0 cm
Notes
Written from "43 Warrington Crescent, / Maida Vale, W." on stationery engraved with the address.
None of the letters in this small collection of letters from Payn to Henley indicate the year of writing. Collection notes and penciled notations on some of the letters suggest the letters were written in 1878 and 1879.
This letter is one of seventeen letters from James Payn to W. E. Henley (MA 1617.349 - MA 1617.365).
Henley was the Editor of the London Magazine in 1877-1878.
None of the letters in this small collection of letters from Payn to Henley indicate the year of writing. Collection notes and penciled notations on some of the letters suggest the letters were written in 1878 and 1879.
This letter is one of seventeen letters from James Payn to W. E. Henley (MA 1617.349 - MA 1617.365).
Henley was the Editor of the London Magazine in 1877-1878.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Referring to the rights to his novel and possible publication in the London Magazine; saying he could not let his novel "...be commenced there immediately, as I should thereby lose both my Australian & American markets;" adding "It seems to me if money (as it seems to be) is our object - with the prospectus of "London" that they do not jump at "Less Black than We're Painted" at full price; it will be [illegible] quite as good as a new novel & I am willing to let them see the whole of it in order to judge of its great merit. Pray mention this."
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