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Letter from W.E.D. Allen to H. Higgens with which Allen returns two books lent by Higgens and sends a carbon copy of a bibliography. He says he has finished his book on Russian Embassies and hopes to have it ready to print before he leaves for Russia in mid-July. He proposes that they meet in late autumn to discuss collaborating on the book on Anglo-Russian relations. Dated: 26 June 1967.

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which Higgens promises to send back comments on the bibliography. He says he has finished correcting the proofs of the index to his revision of Constance Garnett's translation of Herzen's memoirs, which will come out in the Spring (he offers to give a copy to Allen). Dated: 13 July 1967.

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen with which Higgens encloses the bibliography with suggestions. The proposed corrections are with the letter. Dated: 25 August 1967.

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which Higgens makes plans to visit Allen on 20 January, and asks about travel arrangements. He asks whether Allen is familiar with the Golds, discussed by Ossendowski in 'Man and Mystery in Asia'. Dated: 22 November 1967.

Letter from W.E.D. Allen to H. Higgens in which Allen confirms the travel arrangements and promises to bring Professor Muratoff's manuscript draft for the 'Russian book' to Higgens when he is next in London in February. Dated: 16 January 1968.

Letter 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.

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which Higgens thanks Allen for a cheque and hopes he recovers from his illness. He says he has sent him John Lincoln's 'One Man's Mexico', John Carter's 'A.B.C. for Book Collectors' and Margaret Murray's 'Witchcraft in Western Europe'. He says he has loaned him Margaret Murray's 'God of the Witches', Vorobeva's 'Life in Two Worlds' and a paper about hypnotherapy practised by Sufis in Afghanistan. Dated: 9 March 1968.

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which Higgens makes arrangements to visit Allen in June. Dated: 2 April 1968.

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which Higgens thanks Allen for paying him. He proposes to bring 'Gamsakhundia' for Allen to read in June and asks if he has read Mile Bradford's 'The Great Betrayal: Constantionople 1204'. He recommends Terence de Vere White's 'Lucifer Falling' and comments on recent events in Czechoslovakia, asking if Allen ever met Masaryk. Dated: 5 April 1968.

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which Higgens asks if Allen's trip to Morocco was a success, and makes arrangements for his visit in June. He discusses Allen's 'Guerilla War in Abyssinia' and asks if he has read 'The Other Passion' by Edith Simeon or Isaac D'Israeli's 'Curiosities of Literature'. He also discusses Richard Garnett's 'Twilight of the Gods', 'One Man in Mexico' and Bradford's 'The Great Betrayal: Constantinople 1204'. Dated: 15 May 1968.