Letter from J.W.T. Ley, Newport, Monmouthshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1930 July 6 : typescript with manuscript corrections signed.

Record ID: 
446877
Accession number: 
MA 4890.6
Author: 
Ley, J. W. T. (James William Thomas), 1879-1943, sender.
Created: 
Newport, Monmouthshire, 1930 July 6
Credit: 
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 26 x 20.4 cm
Summary: 

Resigning himself to disagreement over the seriousness with which Dickens expressed concern that he would be unable to find powdered wigs in North America; calling Wagenknecht's book "one of the three or four most valuable books on Dickens of the last quarter of a century"; arguing that pacifism is "too illogical for me" and criticizing conscientious objectors, but expressing support for the League of Nations, "which your country turned down to the heart-break of that noble idealist, Wilson"; describing the previous month's "annual conference of the Dickens Fellowship at Bath", at which "they made quite a fuss of me, and put me on the toast list at the banquet to propose the toast of Horace Annesley Vachell, the chairman"; expressing trouble finding time to write "two Dickensian books on the stocks".

Provenance: 
Edward Wagenknecht.