BIB_ID
454615
Accession number
MA 4817.29
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (7 pages) ; 14 x 18.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on blue stationery with "The Old Park / PENN / Bucks" written in the upper right corner.
Envelope with Air Mail stamp, stamped and postmarked to "Professor Edward Wagenknecht" with first address "San Diego State College / San Diego / California" struck out in red and replaced with "1721 Chancellor St / Evanston, Ill / USA."
Envelope with Air Mail stamp, stamped and postmarked to "Professor Edward Wagenknecht" with first address "San Diego State College / San Diego / California" struck out in red and replaced with "1721 Chancellor St / Evanston, Ill / USA."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Guessing that last letters were misdated July 12; thanking him for arranging the fee for "The Almond Tree" and saying he does not expect "an additinal ffee if the Supernatural go into a popular edition" but leaving it "entirely to your convenience."; not remembering if "'The Return,' itself ever went into a cheap edition," saying tthat "'The Memoirs' was chosen by the Book Society to or three years ago."; discussing Wagenknecht's Study of the American Novel and reading and writing criticism; hoping to stop teaching soon; wondering if there are any old mystery stories or novellas "that I have never even heard of"; wanting to ask "Alfred Knopf for 'Elizabeth's Missing."; discussing the end of the War and the threat of the atomic bomb; wondering when it will be possible to get food, clothes, housewares, books with less difficulty; including a poem about an undertaker with no wood; thanking him for compliments on the Bible Stories and talking about the difficulties that would arise if he attempted to adapt the Gospel for children.
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