Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1947 May 19 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

Acknowledging stagnation in his correspondence; agreeing that "Adrizzone's pictures for PEACOCK PIE are excellent. He told me that his drawings had been made in the trecnches &c all the way from Alamein to D-day"; saying that he is "glad you like the new 'Three Royal Monkeys'"; discussing possible works in progress; thinking about possible future visit to England in the summer or fall and saying "hotel accomodatin is very limited; food is not plentiful and hotel charges are rising in spite of the fact that most of what many provide in the way of provender consists of the rationed"; declining additional travel due to age; updating on recent reading including "your ghost book" and "The Jolly Corner," comparint it to "The Turn of the Screw"; understanding why he left M.C.A. but won't himself; "attempting to write on Chardin for one of a series of Art Books published with reproductions in color" that won't be published "for months"; hoping to hear when he will come to England; adding in postscript that a "Miss J[?] Morgan [?] of the Chicago Tribune sent me a clipping of your review of R.A.V."