Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1949 August 6 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

Recounting visit with doctor and planning for a "minor operation" that will keep him away from Twickenham; discussing the fiction written by children, David and Julien; discussing at length Wagenknecht's paper on Dickens and saying "there is not the faintest question you have made pretty sour hay of the various authors who have been making sensationalism out of his private life on very questionable evidence"; remembering a statement by Florence Barclay "that she thanked Heaven she had never admitted into one of her romances (or realistic novels as the case may be) any character whom she would not have invited to the Vicarage for afternoon tea"; suggesting Wagenknect cut "jagged remarks" on Somerset Maughm and Edmund Wilson; discussing timeline proposed by "A.K." for publication; thanking Wagenknecht for sending introduction; approving of dedication "to the 'Three Boys'"; mentioning that Henry Charles Duffin sent him an advance copy of Walter de la Mare: A Study of His Poetry" and offering to send one when it is available.