BIB_ID
455573
Accession number
MA 4817.85
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (1 pages) ; 24.4 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Written on blue Air Mail stationery, stamped and postmarked on the verso with address panel: "Dr. 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, Middlesex."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Feeling bad about not writing for so long; doubting "whether or not some weeks ago I did or did not send you a copy of the long poem we have talked about so often, 'Winged Chariot'" and saying his "memory is getting very unsafe and at that time I was at Penn, staying with my daughter Florence, whose husband was, and, alas, still is seriously ill, so things were rather difficult"; sending a book for Walter; asking for news and commenting on his own health and dictating from bed; saying "Viking will be publishing 'Inward Companion' and the Chariot in one volume in October; corresponding with Pat Covici and saying "there couldn't be a kinder or more considerate publisher"; greeting "very old friends, the Canbys, and to make friends with the Horace Gregorys; discussing the Winged Chariot; reading "a sensitive and imaginative survey of Forrest Reid's novels etc,."; asking for a snapshot of his family.
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