Letter from Walter de la Mare, Twickenham, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1949 March 14 : typescript with autograph manuscript postscript.

Exclaiming at how quickly he is replying to a letter from March 7; accepting the offer from "A.K." and that Wagenknecht "will be suggesting a new selection, and will be writing an introduction"; discussing if he or A.K. will write to MacMillan for permissions to use stories from "The Wind Blows Over"; discussing selection, serialization, and contract for the collection "that Derleth would be publishing"; saying he recently read Hugh Conway and asking if he "found anything of Robert Buchanan's"; discussing work of "Amelia B. Edwards"; Joking "be sure not to let that book about Signor Nearly-Seventysix be anything of an obstruction"; looking forward to copy of the Ghostly Tales of Henry James; asking if Wagenknecht wants any books of his; saying he has secretarial help "2 hours three times a week" and judging her work "shaky in certain insignificant respects" and imagining she "probably has her own private amusement over the jargon of an author's correspondence"; wondering if Wagenknecht signed his letter "Edward" previously.