Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1941 December 1 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

Expressing pleasure for October 25th letter that "arrived a few days ago"; clarifying opinion on "Understanding Poetry"; wishing he could collaborate on the anthology proposed by "Mr. Thornton" but cannot due to work on "the Love Anthology" and "so much other promised work" ; worrying about progress on "Bells and Grass"; saying that he has not seen The Great Lady but was reading "an article by Edmund Wilson in the Atlantic Monthly--Literary Criticism in History"; discussing the harm in Sigmund Freud's work; asking for a copy of "COLLEGE ENGLISH"; wsishing the best for "the History, a prodigious undertaking."