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".
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.
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
Created:
Newport, Monmouthshire, 1930 July 6
Credit:
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description:
1 item (2 pages) ; 26 x 20.4 cm
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Provenance:
Edward Wagenknecht.
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