Letter from J.W.T. Ley, Newport, Monmouthshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1943 January 14 : typescript signed.

Claiming to respect Wagenknecht's Quaker views regarding war, to the point that the Quaker "is the only man whom I would accept as a Conscientious Objector!"; asserting that Gladys Storey's book, "Dickens and Daughter", has "completely upset" the publication of his own book; finding Kate Perugini's disclosure of Ellen Ternan and Charles Dickens' alleged child difficult to believe; informing that Hesketh Pearson's book on Bernard Shaw referenced Ley's book on "the DROOD TRIAL of 1914" and describing correspondence between the two; mentioning the difficulty of conducting interviews during wartime; hoping for a copy of Wagenknecht's upcoming book on the history of the English novel.