Letter from August Derleth, Sauk City, Wisconsin, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1946 August 27 : typescript signed.

Remarking that disagreements between anthologists are productive; listing some criticism for Wagenknecht's forthcoming anthology; cautioning Wagenknecht not to draw a correlation between how his Christmas stories anthology sold and how his ghost story collection will sell; noting that the Christmas anthology has done well because it is more unique, versus the "scads of supernatural-story anthologies [released] in the past decade or so"; hypothesizing that "a connoisseur of the supernatural will have no hesitation about placing your book somewhere about 12th to 20th place among anthologies published in the past two decades"; observing that Wagenknecht's method for classifying ghost stories imposes limits on the anthology's originality; assuring that despite these criticisms, Arkham House will support both of Wagenknecht's anthologies; explaining that his contempt for repeating authors in a single collection of stories stems from a belief that "the anthologist's duty embraces the necessity of as much variety as he can honestly include"; asking Wagenknecht to lend him a Frederick Cowles book; mentioning that he is using a borrowed book of stories by Fitz James O'Brien as the basis for a new Arkham House publication; writing that he will eventually need to know if Wagenknecht plans to anthologize "the Lovecraft story"; saying that Wagenknecht may use some of the A.E. Coppard stories, but should note that Arkham House retains the right sell their anthology rights; describing how Arkham House handles author fees.