Letter from Walter de la Mare, Twickenham, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1950 May 12 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

Enjoying "the two reprints" and delighting in "the process of argument, the pitting of evidence against evidence, the occasional taunt over Dickens and the Scandalmongers"; describing "hi-jinks will William Wordsworth over here; flocks of people tramping all around Keswick, Grasmere, Ambleside, etc. etc. And there is a very attractive booklet containing a series of photographs of W.W.'s various domiciles. e.g. Dove Cottage, which was originally an Inn and called the Dove and Olive Bough" and discussing work of Wordsworth and contrasting it with "S.M." and mentioning "the appalling decline in literary judgement in the last fifty years"; remembering being assigned "Moby Dick" and thinking he had discovered him; praising Wagenknecht's paper on Melville; discussing and debating "Infancy's unconscious spell"; updating on publication of poems.