Letter from Kenneth J. Ley, Clifton, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1943 October 10 : typescript with manuscript corrections signed.

Reporting the death of his father, J.W.T. Ley, on August 21, 1943; detailing that his father fell over a water pipe used for fighting fires, "developed neurosis" from severe shock, and died peacefully; reporting "wonderful appreciations" he and his mother received regarding his father's work on Dickens and in the National Union of Journalists; inquiring as to a book his father had been working on, which had never been mentioned to him.