BIB_ID
454646
Accession number
MA 4817.34
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 14 x 18.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on blue stationery with "4 South End House / Montpelier Row / Twickenham" written in the upper right corner.
Envelope with Air Mail stamp, stamped and postmarked to "Mr Edward Wagenknecht / 1721 Chancellor St / Evanston / Illinois / USA."
Please be aware that this item contains racist language and a racial slur.
Envelope with Air Mail stamp, stamped and postmarked to "Mr Edward Wagenknecht / 1721 Chancellor St / Evanston / Illinois / USA."
Please be aware that this item contains racist language and a racial slur.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Saying both letters have come; expressing compassion "cutting down a million words to a paultry 300,000" and saying he shall now be able to read the book in bed without a pageboy to hold it up; noticing Algernon Blackwood in the table of contents, has been reading "A Woman's Ghost Story"; teasing that his pace will ensure "thee will be writing left to anthologise; & I haven't turned eighty yet!"; expressing delight at the introduction and thanking him for editing; promising to reply about the ghost stories when back at Penn; being "shaken again at hearing of the further change in MCA Management," asking if he has met "Miss Herald" who "seems to tbe thoroughly competent, stating need for an agent in America; saying he has not seen Henry V; looking forward to meeting next summer.
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