BIB_ID
456268
Accession number
MA 14715.17
Creator
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 8.8 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written on three embossed letterhead correspondence cards from: Spade House, / Sandgate.
Forms part of a collection of letters addressed by H.G. Wells to the Popham family, his neighbors at Sandgate, including the writer Florence Radford Popham, her husband Arthur Frederick Popham, and their young daughter Doris Popham.
Forms part of a collection of letters addressed by H.G. Wells to the Popham family, his neighbors at Sandgate, including the writer Florence Radford Popham, her husband Arthur Frederick Popham, and their young daughter Doris Popham.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Recommending that she make her book longer and making some suggestions as to how she might do so, including a proposal that she add an epilogue and prologue; going on to write a "Valuable Tip" on a third card, advising that, should she have an idea for a short story "better told in four or five thousand words than in one", she should "make J.B.P take it to the Strand", as "They are very keen there on humorous stories & you ought to get £20 to £30."
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