Letter from August Derleth, Sauk City, Wisconsin, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1956 October 24 : typescript signed.

Thanking Wagenknecht for the long letter he sent; remarking that he thought he had sent the birth announcement for his first child, April Rose, in 1954, but evidently he misremembered doing so; saying that both children are doing well, but that April looks more like him and Walden like his mother; anticipating Wagenknecht's edited collection "Selected Letters and Journals of Fanny Appleton Longfellow", as he enjoyed its predecessor so much; mentioning that he has mostly been writing children's books, and is working on "House on the Mound" which will be the sequel to "Bright Journey"; noting that he is almost done working on the new historical novel "The Hills Stand Watch" and though he would rather be writing almost anything else, he knows historical novels sell slowly and steadily; complaining that economic prosperity must be his first concern for the immediate future; saying "Country Poems" will be coming out in early December, making the volume his seventy eighth book to date; saying that no, he has still not been acquiring old comics, and that his work on the topic needs to be on the back burner until he can get Arkham House back up and running; closing with news that his anthology "The Survivor & Others" will be the first title published by the house since April 1954.