Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1949 January 24 : typescript with autograph manuscript postscript.

Saying that he is not so late to reply to last letter of December 30 and worrying about belated letters in general; saying that "the H.J. has come, and it is quite needless to say, interests me intensely" and saying that he reviewed his books and further discussing Wagenknecht's work on Henry James and mentioning a collection of letters between James and "R.L.S." as well as a comment on Thomas Hardy; making suggestions to the text referencing specific paragraphs; hoping that he will make time for "original fiction" and complimenting "The Turtle"; hearing from Knopf that "in view of a shrinking market here and tremendously high costs, we would have to pay a very moderate royalty" and quoting Knopf again about anthologists: "the public enemy of publishers and writers of original books"; discussing which collections of his have plates or stock; adding more compliments to Wagenknecht's work in postscript along with discussion of his own work and reading .