Letter from J.W.T. Ley, Newport, Monmouthshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1929 October 25 : typescript with manuscript corrections signed.

Describing Dickens' reaction to the Staplehurst incident [a train derailment on June 9, 1865]; looking forward to reading Wagenknecht's book; expressing frustration that "it is very difficult" to get information on Ellen Ternan's "after career" and that "Sir Henry [Henry Fielding Dickens, barrister and child of Charles and Catherine DIckens] is foolish not to speak" and that Dickens "seems to resent anybody having a word to say"; acknowledging that "this attitude gives a handle to the depreciators, because they say that he is afraid of something coming out".