Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1949 March 3 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

Saying "I dislike machining, but it does save 'time'" and not remembering when he replied to a letter from January 30; complimenting Wagenknecht on handling a "transaction" by "brandishing lawyer's ultimatums as if they were really up your sleeve" and recounting the response "That your frontal attack should have been so devastating is astonishing enough but that it should have persuaded him to make kindly remaks concerning your other project--a book about 'this old man' is even more so"; asking if he will "both truly and indeed come to England if the book is decided upon?; discussing the work of his friend Henry Charles Duffin; making suggestions for "English Thrillers"; saying "If your friend August Derleth would care to publish the three ancient tales from the Old Cornhill, I am perfectly willing" and discussing the possible publication; remembering "Helen Newald mentioning a magazine that wanted a story" but he hasn't heard from M.C.A.; describing revisions to projects; describing the sunny winter weather from the window "at Twitnam my flat"; saying "A.K. has magnanimously offered a royalty of a straight 10%" for collected stories and discussing title and wanting Wagenknecht to do the introduction for a fee he would provide; saying he will "be going back to my rhymes again" after writing more letters; adding that he hopes Wagenknecht's wife "has now completely recovered from her accident".