Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1949 September 30 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

Saying it was good to have the letter from the 23rd; saying that the minor operation went well; recounting the trouble it took to "get the little transaction through" the Bank of England before "Sir Stafford Creeps [Sir Richard Stafford Cripps] divulged his achievement at Washington"; recalling "Mountbatten's speeach at the Mansion House when he was given the Freedom of the City of London" and how "He then said that Japan had practically surrendered --or words to tht effect--before the first bomb fell" and remembering "having an instantaneous reaction that it was one of the worst events that had ever occurred in this world"; finishing "The Last Days of Hitler"; saying "I did read John Atkins's and if the subject of a book is permitted an opinion about it, I thought it a bit sketchy"; looking forward to "Murder by Gaslight"; responding to Wagenknecht claiming to have seen a ghost and telling his own ghost story; hoping Wagenknecht's broadcast went well; asking "How went your affair finally with the fraudulent publisher?"