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, 1942 December 29 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
454593
Accession number
MA 4817.24
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.9 x 17.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on gray stationery typed with "The Old Park / PENN / Bucks."
Envelope with censor's label, stamped and postmarked to "Dr Edward Wagenknecht / University of Washington / Department of English / Seattle / USA."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Saying he meant to write sooner; expressing delight "that the Book is FINISHED"; discussing publishing affairs "with A.K." and pricing for possible special edition of The Dream Book; praising "Dorothy Lathrop's Jasper" drawings; giving opinion about a possible book, believes it "could not possibly have any considerable sale" but discussing possible publishers; saying that he spoke with his son Dick, "one of the directors at Faber's"; apologizing for relaying disappointing news ahead of the New Year.