BIB_ID
455506
Accession number
MA 4817.75
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.7 x 17.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on blue stationery with "4, South End House, / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham" typed in the upper right corner.
Envelope with Air Mail stamp, stamped and postmarked to "Dr. Edward Wagenknecht / 233 Otis Street / West Newton 65 / Mass / U.S.A".
Envelope is misdated "11-29-49" in an unknown hand.
This letter follows MA 4817.44 chronolgically.
Envelope with Air Mail stamp, stamped and postmarked to "Dr. Edward Wagenknecht / 233 Otis Street / West Newton 65 / Mass / U.S.A".
Envelope is misdated "11-29-49" in an unknown hand.
This letter follows MA 4817.44 chronolgically.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Saying "It really was immensely kind of you to write to Mr. Magill" and letting "the decision rest entirely with you"; opening the letter Wagenknecht had asked him not to and saying "that hadn't actually the faintest effect on me when I read the four stories, even for the first time; and still less on the second time"; commenting on "The Turtle".
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