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Autograph ‘promise to pay’, signed ‘Annie Cox’, promising five guineas “in consideration of Mr de V. Payen-Payne reading through and revising “The Mystic Number 7” in Manuscript, and correcting proof sheets, also advising me as to the publication thereof”. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches fine. 17 Tennyson Mansions, 8 January 1900. Annie Cox (1845–1919). She became a prolific serial author under the pseudonym “Annabel Gray,” publishing twelve novels and novellas in The London Journal, four more in The London Reader, and one in Tinsley’s Magazine in addition to numerous essays and short stories. (Many of her novels did not appear in volume form.) Her productivity declined by the end of the century and, in poor health, she successfully applied to the Royal Literary Fund in 1914.