"The Soviet North" by Terence Armstrong. Reprinted from Survey, No. 67, April 1968.
Sans titreLetter from W.E.D. Allen to Humphrey Higgens in which Allen is making contact with Higgens, on the recommendation of Col. Geoffery Wheeler. Allen asks Higgens if he is available to translate Russian materials relating to his book 'Embassies' and offers £3.10.0 per thousand words for a May deadline. Dated: 13 February 1963.
Sans titreLetter from W.E.D. Allen to H. Higgens in which Allen thanks Higgens and tells him that he will phone Higgens when he is in London to check if there are any queries. Dated: 26 February 1963.
Sans titreLetter from W.E.D. Allen to H. Higgens in which Allen thanks Higgens for finishing and sending the Yelshin report translation and and writes that he continues to be busy with business matters, however he will get in touch with Higgens with he is in London. Dated: 8 October 1964.
Sans titreLetter from W.E.D. Allen to H. Higgens in which Allen apologises for the delay in paying Higgens and says he has been unable to work on the Hakluyt book because he has been busy with other matters. He asks Higgens to tell him how much he owes for the translation (having lost Higgens's letter from 6 October), and offers to pay him by cheque. Dated: 8 January 1965.
Sans titreLetter from W.E.D. Allen to H. Higgens in which Allen writes that he has found Higgens's letter from 6 October and encloses a cheque for £56 for his translation of Yelchin's embassy. He says he hopes to get in touch about literary matters when he is less busy. Dated: 11 January 1965.
Sans titreLetter from W.E.D. Allen to H. Higgens in which Allen writes that he has finished the bibliography and reworked the genealogical trees since Higgens's visit. He says he will send a carbon copy of Muratoff's drafts for his book on Anglo-Russian relations for Higgens to judge how they can collaborate on them. Dated: 15 March 1967.
Sans titreLetter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which Higgens thanks Allen for his hospitality and promises to return two books he borrowed. He encloses 'The Night Before Larry was Stretched' from 'The Oxford Book of Light Verse'. He offers to send notes on the Hakluyt Society's 'Guide'. He asks if Allen is interested in buying a dictionary by Dahl from the Russian wife of a British diplomat, recently returned from Moscow. Dated: 29 February 1968.
Sans titreLetter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which he thanks for Allen's kindness and hospitality. His return journey had been smooth in which he had met and conversed with a Russian. With the letter is a note on etymology. Dated: 30 June 1968.
Sans titreLetter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which he asks Allen whether he would prefer that Higgens came to stay in October or at Christmas. Higgens asks to be reminded of the American couple who had written about mushrooms. He writes of other publications and includes a German rhyme "Der Werwolf". Dated: 4 July 1968.
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