Letter from J.W.T. Ley, Newport, Monmouthshire, ca. 1937-1938 to Edward Wagenknecht, 1929-1943 : typescript signed.

Promising to read his manuscript "within a couple of days, and then send it on to Dexter [Walter Dexter, editor of "The Dickensian" quarterly]; expressing interest in a collaboration between the two; assuming he read Ley's article on Mary Hogarth [sister of Catherine Dickens] and informing that "two years ago" he wrote a book on Charles Dickens' "marital troubles", in which he "dealt with Wright [Thomas Wright, author of The Life of Charles Dickens (1935)]; relating that he sent one of two copies of his book to "a friend in London" who never returned it and passed it on to another, described as "keen on the dibs"; expressing the need to "alter slightly now to deal with Wright's further 'revelations' in his Autobiography"; hesitating to use the word "Love" in the title, as "the Bechofer [sic] Roberts's and the Kingsmills" would not approve.