Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1941 May 26 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

BIB_ID
454539
Accession number
MA 4817.16
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.5 x 20 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on blue stationery typed with "The Old Park / PENN / Bucks."
Envelope with censor's label, stamped and postmarked to "Mr Edward Wagenknecht / University of Washington / Dept. of English / Seattle / USA."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Thanking Wagenknecht for April 25 letter (his birthday); wanting to include Willa Cather's poem in anthology; saying sorry that Wagenknecht did not like the title of "the book of rhymes" [Bells & grass]; saying he is grateful for "your intention to write a book on -- well, you know who" but advising him not to write any more until a publisher is secured; saying that he still has manuscripts of Songs of Childhood and Memoirs of a Midget; thanking him for lending a photograph and for accompanying "letter poem"; planning provisional visit "next May Day".