Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Walter de la Mare, Twickenham, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1949 May 2 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
455156
Accession number
MA 4817.56
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 13.5 x 17.7 cm
Notes
Written on blue stationery with "4, South End House, / Montpelier Row, Twickenham" typed in the upper right corner.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Discussing Wagenknecht's possible work on "W. de la M" and saying "I cannot see anything in the least satisfactory in the way of dollars in this--well, ageing author" and asking him instead to focus on "far more profitable work"; relaying what he wrote to A.K. this morning regarding selections for the anthology by Wagenknecht; approving of the selection options and being surprised by "'The Talisman'--a very old story written by a youngish gentleman who had never set eyes then on a single acre of Switzerland"; saying he hasn't yet gotten to the Detective Stories.