BIB_ID
455277
Accession number
MA 4817.63
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 13.6 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Written on blue stationery with "4, South End House, / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham." typed in the upper right corner.
Refers to an article by Edward Wagenknecht in the Chicago Tribune, likely from Sunday, May 22, 1949: "Did Dickens Really Love His Actress?"
Refers to an article by Edward Wagenknecht in the Chicago Tribune, likely from Sunday, May 22, 1949: "Did Dickens Really Love His Actress?"
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Discovering that he miscounted the total number of words for his anthology and sending "a note to A.K. in the hope that it will reach him whyen he is in his habitually cherubic mood"; discussing the weather; apologizing for missing Wagenknecht's friend "D. Hitchin" [spelled "Hitchen" in later typescripts]; saying "Nothing yet from M.C.A.M." and "You will by now perhaps have seen Diamond Russell"; plannign to "ask Russell and Volkening if they will be kind enough to deal with these new poems, and the collection that may follow them"; responding to mention of "Richard Church's 'British Authors'" and saying "I thought it was excellently done"; saying "I am looking forward to the C.D. Do send me a copy of your trouncing of his most recent assailants that appeared in the 'Chicago Tribune.'"
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