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Letter 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.

Letter 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.

Letter 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.

Letter 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.

Letter 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.

Letter 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.

Letter from W.E.D. Allen to H. Higgens in which he thanks Higgens for the gift of the Roget Thesaurus. Allen has shown Higgens' letter to Sir Hugh Boustead who will contact Higgens when he is back in London. Allen will be busy in October but still thinks it would be good if Higgens visited in mid-October. Allen hopes that Higgens may be able to coach his grandson Bill, who will staying with them during the winter. Dated: 20 July 1968.

This is a series of correspondence mainly between W.E.D. Allen and Raleigh Ashlin Skelton (known as Peter to his friends, and in these letters). There is some correspondence with Skelton's daughter after Skelton was killed in a car accident.

Letter from W.E.D. Allen to Peter Skelton in which he sends apologies for not being able to attend the Council Meeting of the Hakluyt Society. He reports good progress on the Russian Embassies project. Dated: 2 May 1961.

Letter from W.E.D. Allen to Peter Skelton in which he writes concerning illustrations for his Hakluyt Book and the publications he needs to obtain them. Dated: 16 December 1966.