Letter from Ellen Van Volkenburg, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1952 May 12 : autograph manuscript signed.

Appreciating Wagenknecht's book, "Cavalcade of the American Novel", especially the section on Henry James; explaining that though she has "read none of his really great novels", she is "preoccupied with the dramatization of The American and of some of the short stories"; informing on the receipt of letters from "Mr. and Mrs. William James, Jr." about The American; asking if her first great James novel should be "The Wings of the Dove"; marveling at his capacity "to do the many fine works you do"; reporting on travel plans to England; reporting on the ill health of Maurice Brown and expecting to join him and his family in England; thanking him for her copy of "Cavalcade of the American Novel"; wishing him a good summer; inquiring in a postscript as to how his play is going.