Letter from Ellen Van Volkenburg, West Brooksville (Maine), to Edward Wagenknecht, 1956 August 24 : autograph manuscript signed.

Expressing enjoyment at having read Wagenknecht's book, "Longfellow: A Full-Length Portrait", which she brought to England and to Maine; appreciating that "you have developed our understanding of his character as a dramatist" and particularly appreciating what Longfellow's wife, Fanny Appleton, said of him; wondering how "his deeply gentle nature would have functioned in our violent age"; expressing particular emotion at James Whitcomb Riley's picture of him; respecting the work that went into the book; thanking him for the book; giving travel plans.