Letter from August Derleth, Sauk City, Wisconsin, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1953 January 16 : typescript signed.

Confirming that he knew Marjorie Bowen had died; citing the article in Time Magazine that reported on her death; agreeing that her death is shocking; mentioning that "there are too few writers of her calibre for us to lose any one of them, unfortunately"; writing that though Arkham House has given up on the idea of publishing "Black Magic," he would still like to make "Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales" a priority for release; repeating that sales for British authors will need to improve before they can commit to that project; listing the statistics of other British collections that did not sell well; saying the lack of sales are discouraging "especially when we can sell 2,000 copies of something greatly inferior by magazine bylines."