Letter from Walter de la Mare, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1939 October 27 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

Acknowledging receipt of letter; lamenting the return of "a cheque returned to me yesterday because I had dated in 1997"; expressing relief that he had not forgotten about writing an essay for "The Living Age," because it had been reprinted there; explaining the article "Books and Reading" is part of the book "Some Thoughts on Reading," but has not yet found his copy to send; asking if a Henry James paper would be additional to reviews; offering to look up anything in a bound compendium of the Westminster Gazette by date; commenting on manuscript and answering questions about "The Riddle," "Mr. Kempe," and "The Connoisseur"; thanking him for the review of the Dream Book; referencing A.E. Houseman; adding in postscript an explaination of the machine in "Mr. Kempe" as "intended to suggest Life and/or Love pursuing Death; wishing to show the ciff walk at Porlock.