BIB_ID
292240
Accession number
MA 2234.17
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956.
Credit line
Gift of Gordon N. Ray, 1962.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a large collection of autograph and typed letters from Walter de la Mare to Tom Turner. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2234.1-84).
With postmark and stamp.
Written on stationery with "Hill House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire." printed at the top.
With postmark and stamp.
Written on stationery with "Hill House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire." printed at the top.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Thanking him for the books he has given him; saying he enjoyed Turner's visit "more than [he] can say"; discussing the fairy photographs [taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in 1917] and saying he was "not convinced concerning the fairies"; explaining how the photographs could be faked; mentioning books on dreams by [Frederick] Greenwood and Havelock Ellis; noting that he "should enjoy a little talk with D.L. Murray."
Catalog link
Department