Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1948 May 27 : typescript with autograph manuscript postscript.

Saying a copy of the "Tribute" was sent to him three days ago and that he hadn't known about it until family presented him with a copy on his birthday; expressing that "it is a remarkable tribute to my constitution that I haven't perished of excitements during this last month"; saying that being "laid up for a week or two at Hove" postponed birthday celebration; discussing a mistake of two "book-rests" from "Marshall Field's" arriving and inquiring after their address so that De la Mare may "buy this second rest from them"; expressing astonishment that "H.J's gost stories have never yet been collected into one volume; and no less astonishing, perhaps, that when I asked M.R. James what he thought of 'The Turn of the Screw' (not a very enterprising enquiry), he said he had never read it"; wanting to have a story in "your second Christmas book; but I am stumped to suggest one"; asking him to work on more short stories; talking in third person and approving of something Wagenknecht wrote on "The Riddle" and discussing symbolism and characters in the story.