BIB_ID
455556
Accession number
MA 4817.81
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: "Mr. Edward Wagenknecht / 233, Otis Street, / West Newton, / 65 Mass., U.S.A." and sender's address panel: "W.J. de la Mare, / 4, South End House, / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham, Mdx."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Feeling remiss at not having written since July 18; discussing a photograph of "A.K." and "his decision regarding the length of the collection of short stories, struck me as a most likeabe thing" and his blurb of the book; hearing of Carl Van Doren's death; saying he hasn't seen a film for 18 months and discussing "3 vague projects for filming 'The Return'" and imagining watching film with Wagenknecht's family; saying the collection of verse is coming out in October and promising to export a copy if he "would keep it strickaly between ourselves, as I gave my word to the Vikings that no copy should be exported to the United States until their edition appears"; expressing sympathy "at the thought of your toiling over the history of the American novel"; discussing Edith Sitwell's forthcoming anthology of winter poems; saying he is "glad indeed to hear that your crooked publisher didn't entirely get away with it"; asking for a letter and whether there is a possibility of them ever meeting.
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