Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Typed letter signed with initials : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner, 1949 Aug. 9.

BIB_ID
292422
Accession number
MA 2234.83
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956.
Credit line
Gift of Gordon N. Ray, 1962.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 13.6 x 17.8 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.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Commenting on Mary Turner's ordeal with "the most pernicious landlord that ever drew rent"; saying he was sorry that Turner and Mary were not able to visit him; asking for more details about Mary's degree ceremony; mentioning Richard Church; discussing prices for first editions of [Alfred] Tennyson's Maud and de la Mare's Songs of Childhood.