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, 1944 March 20 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

BIB_ID
454601
Accession number
MA 4817.26
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 14 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Written on blue stationery typed with "The Old Park / PENN."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Opening with "For how long have I owed you a letter? Please don't attempt to find out."; saying he is glad about changes made; saying he "once gave a lecture where you actually are now" referring to a university; promising to send a copy of "LOVE"; saying sorry to hear that "Marjorie Bowen's son is a prisoner of the Japanese"; feeling sluggish but wanting to do another novel; asking him to send along a photograh of himself; saying that he exhanged letters with Forrest Reid for a long time before he knew "whethere he was man or woman"; saying he met two American soldiers; telling him not to work too hard and saying "how much I owe you that can never be repaid--but I remember it."