BIB_ID
455588
Accession number
MA 4817.86
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. Edward Wagenknecht / 233, Otis Street, / West Newton / 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
Describing his postman being lost and delivering at 10:30; praising Wagenknecht's review of "the Chariot" and discussing the price of the book; saying "I had no idea that things were quite so bad, and on the face ot it, almost irreperable, with your present Public Affairs" and discussing politics, "the English character", and the "Groundnut Scheme"; feeling glad for Wageknecht "that the Cavalcade is nearing its conclusion" and praising the idea for his next book; making friends with "Father Jean Mambrino; a Jesuit priest, now nearly through his 14 years' discipline"; saying "The room in which Riggio [?] came to his end is no more spacious than the closet-suffer [?] upper room where Charlotte Bronte died at Haworth"; making a joke about the Four Marys.
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