Letter from J.W.T. Ley, Newport, Monmouthshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1938 March 4 : typescript signed.

Reporting the sending of "that manuscript" and explaining that the delay was due to other work, such as Walter Dexter wanting things for The Dickensian and tasks related to the National Union of Journalists, for which he is going to London today; explaining mistakes of Wagenknecht's as due to "sub-conscious confidence which causes one to write readily without verifying references"; expressing pleasure at their agreement regarding Elizabeth Dickens and the picture that Mrs. Micawber in David Copperfield gives of her; asking for Wagenknecht's opinion on his manuscript and acknowledging the possible need to re-write for Thomas Wright's evidence on Dickens' "liason with Ellen Ternan"; expressing dismay at the current political climate, citing "our Labour Party now trying to make capital out of Eden" and "confessing that my sympathies are very heavily with Germany", but condemning Mussolini as "another case of greed for power".