Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1949 July 18 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

Thanking Wagenknecht for his letter; choosing "Willows instead of Mr. Kemp"; discussing how "A Revenant" was the result of tiring lectures; sending a copy of "The Riddle" and "writing to A.K. to ask him to send you copies of 'The Connoisseur' and 'On the Edge' both of whcih he told me were in stock towards the end of last year"; sending also "The Wind Blows Over"; asking Alfred Knopf "if the printers could print from 'The Riddle' and keep it respectable, and the same with 'Two Tales'; looking forward to seeing the introduction; asking to dedicate the book to Wagenknect's son and asking for full names; asking if there is a chance Wagenknecht would be in England and saying "I should love to see you--and I am eighty in '53! Not too much opportunity!"; waiting for an answer from "the M.C.A. asking them if they can efficiently handle the poems I mentioned to you"; sharing that new Faber collection will have 50 to 60; wishing "that Rex Whistler was here to illustrate it; saying that "Gwen Morgan" came to ask him questions but doubting that anything will come of it "as the outcome was almost certainly too dry"; discussing James Branch Cabell; sending salutations from "Miss M"; enclosing a typescript poem by an eight-year-old.