Letter from H.G. Wells, Worcester Park?, England, to H.B. Marriott Watson, 1898? : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing that he finished reading Watson's work last night and that "It's very evident why I smelt success so powerfully. Stupid as publishers are & strange & wild as the ways of this public are -- reading such bosh as Aylwin & Evelyn Ines (The Cymric Child! O my God!") with passionate voracity -- yet I do not see how this is going to miss pleasing a great number of people."; going on to praise the book's "excitement & rapid freshness" and overall structure, "one gets a general impression, the castle central & dominant, the open hills of the Gwent the struggle -- all in their places & consistent & fine."; stating that it is "as fine a work as Galloping Dick" and that there is nothing in The heart of Miranda "to put with any chapter of it."; adding that they have had their photographs taken "in respectful imitation of your Isle of Wight ones", and that theirs will not be published; noting that their "big cat has fled" and that they lead "a simple uneventful life."