BIB_ID
455503
Accession number
MA 4817.73
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 24.6 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Written on white Air Mail stationery, stamped and postmarked on the verso with address panel: "Dr. E Wagenknecht / 233, Otis Street, / West Newton, / 65, Mass, U.S.A" and sender's address panel: "Walter de la Mare, / 4, South End House, / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham, Mdx."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Writing beneath an old letter; saying "The required date and the check list have gone back to A.K., together with a scrap of rhyme, which as we had been discussing copyright laws in our previous letters, I sent to him because it concerns a certain pirate:--'S. Plush'"; discussing Wagenknecht's poor sleeping and describing the time "An Irish sleep-expert came to see me"; describing "floods of rain" and wishing Wagenknecht were there; adding that there are three small leaks in the cieling.
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