WELLS, Herbert-Georges (1866-1946). L.A.S. to J.Y. Mc Peake. - Lot 222

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WELLS, Herbert-Georges (1866-1946). L.A.S. to J.Y. Mc Peake. - Lot 222
WELLS, Herbert-Georges (1866-1946). L.A.S. to J.Y. Mc Peake. Easton Glebe, n.d. [1919]. 4 pp. in-8. In English. Beautiful letter from the English novelist, master and pioneer of science fiction and anticipation, author of The Invisible Man and The Time Machine, addressed to the director of the National Magazine Company. Wells plans to write a book on the hopes and disillusions of youth: "I do not contemplate any articles suitable for Nash's or the Cosmopolitan at present. I shall probably not write to release (as the money people say) anything for magazine publication this year. But I have planned the beginnings of a fairly big novel which I shall write in the end of the year & the early half of 1920. It will be about 120,000/150,000 words long & it will deal with the hopes & disillusionments of the young people in this peace-settlement time. It will be a real novel chiefly about young men & women with one or two [?] older people. Now if you really want anything of mine for Nash's & the Cosmopolitan this serial is what you ought to have. If you now & fix it you will - subject of course to its being done get it [...]. But if you don't take a deep breath & get that thing read, taking all the risks of what a written book may or may not be, then I doubt if you will have the ghost of a smell at any of my work for two years [...].
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