BIB_ID
454731
Accession number
MA 4817.39
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23 x17.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on blue stationery with "The Old Park / Penn" written in the upper right corner.
Envelope with Air Mail stamp, stamped and postmarked to "Mr. Edward Wagenknecht / 1721 Chancellor St / Evanston / Illinois / USA."
Envelope with Air Mail stamp, stamped and postmarked to "Mr. Edward Wagenknecht / 1721 Chancellor St / Evanston / Illinois / USA."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Confirming letter of the 16th reached him on Saturday; saying "& here is the required note for Bobbs-Merrill"; saying "I do hope you will succeed in persuading them to publishing J.R.'s trilogy" and recalling trying to get him to publish books in America; asking if "Apostate appeared there?"; not recalling books from previous letter; sending a copy of "Collected Stories for Children" so that the printers can "follow the text of 'The Three Sleeping Boys' as it appears in this; discussing "The Wharf" a selection as opposed to other works; discussing "Julian Forrest's [?] story"; reading Ellery Queen and other mystery stories; asking if he has read "Montague James' tale"; discussing "Lord Dunsany's 'The Two Bottles of Relish'"; asking "what's in the wind when the anthologies are finished?"
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