BIB_ID
455535
Accession number
MA 4817.78
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 24.4 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Written on blue Air Mail stationery, stamped and postmarked on the verso with address panel: "Dr. E. Wagenknecht / 233, Otis Street, / West Newton, / Mass., U.S.A." and sender's address panel: "W. de la Mare, / 4, South End House, / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham, Mdx."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Describing "long silence" filled with work; hoping that Wagenknecht's sore throat is "all over"; reminding Wagenknecht to send "the Dickens article" and saying "I can't really see myself how and why any such episode as this relates to, whatever the actual facts may be, and really affects the novels of Dickens" and discussing Dickens's "moral outlook" and telling a story about Patmore and Ruskin looking at strawberries; saying "how deeply and gratefully intersted I was in the news from Boston" and discussing letters; feeling disbelief that they haven't met and asking if Wagenknecht's plan to come over have fallen through; giving "special love to Chappy"; recalling letters from "Dick's four children"; commenting on "A.K.'s personal reference in his advertisement of the new Selections."
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