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Birth announcement from August Derleth, Sauk City, Wisconsin, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1956 August 22 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
453130
Accession number
MA 4820.74
Creator
Derleth, August, 1909-1971, sender.
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.9 x 11.4 cm
Notes
One of a collection of 110 letters addressed to Edward Wagenknecht from August Derleth (MA 4820).
Typed on personalized card featuring illustration of stork delivering infant signed: Unkle Dwig [Clare Victor Dwiggins]
Provenance
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Summary
Announcing the birth of Walden William Derleth; using a publishing advertisement as a metaphor to describe the birth, listing August and Sandra Derleth's "second collaboration" that is "bound in full skin" in an edition "limited to seven pounds and ten and one-half ounces"; listing Walden William's birthday, August 22, 1956, as the "publication date"