Letter from Walter de la Mare, Penn, Buckinghamshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1950 January 6 : typescript with autograph manuscript postscript.

Replying after "almost a calendar month" and remaining "behindhand" in correspondence; hoping that the flu has left him; saying "so sorry you did not succeed in getting the Introduction into the Saturday Review or the Atlantic; but there was very little time, and I know how long before publication the Atlantic prepares an issue"; saying "the jacket you mention has not yet reached me" and the book "will appear probably in March"; asking to "Please tell Mr. Derleth that I haven't forgotten the Ghost Story project" and will try to place one in the Ladies Home Journal, mentioning that his friend and former secretary Olive Jones recently sent him an issue; discussing Christmas and having no snow; saying that "things became so unsatisfactory with M.C.A.M. that I decided to ask our Soceity of Authors to act as my literary Agents"; saying "in reply Pat Covici told me that Miss Rae Everitt was now dealing with English authors for the M.C.A., and admirably" and discussing this with "an old friend of mine Denys Kilham Roberts"; hoping Wagenknecht's trouble with publishers is over and lamenting the waste of time.