English writer (1866-1946). Autograph letter signed ("H. G. Wells"). Easton Glebe, Dunmow. 8vo. 4 pp. Printed address.
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To J.Y. Mc Peake: „[…] 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 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 […]“.