Letter from Walter de la Mare, Twickenham, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1949 November 28 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

Recieving letter "of the 17th with the copies of the pamphlet"; looking up "one or two little references in the story and found that Vega, quite apart from being a lovely and conspicuous star, was also in rather a strange way, appropriate to the circumstances of the story" and pondering questions of perception and knowledge; thanking Wageknecht for "restoring my old contemporary Miss Braddon to my bosom" and mentioning "H.J." [Henry James], Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and "Webster, and Keith of Ravelston"; hearing gladly "The Cavalcade goes so well"; wondering if copy of Henry Charles Duffin's book has failed to reach him; responding to "what you said about the beauty of Knopf's latest book"; asking for a long letter; reading "the Riddle pamphlet" with delight; exclaiming "Hooray for Henrik Ibsen!"; asking if he came across "Carroll's [?]" rejoinder.