BIB_ID
455594
Accession number
MA 4817.89
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: "Prof Edward Wagenknecht / 233, Otis Street, / West Newton 65, / Mass. U.S.A." and sender's address panel: "Walter de la Mare, / South End House, / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham. Mdx. / England"
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Saying a letter reached him this morning, "only 5 days in all"; rejoicing that "your Cavalcade will now soon be out in the World" and wishing "the world show more insight, acumen, taste and judgement than (to judge from the fact that for three montsh from February A.K. is issuing it to certain dealers at $1.25) it has revealed over the Collected Tales!"; saying "heaven bless your play! Tell me how Lillian Gish feels about it"; explaining that his "woeful calligraphy" is the result of not filling his pen; discussing Walter's "poor sleepng and his revolt against school" as caused by possible homesickness; remembering being homesick in America but liking Maryland and Virginia; asking about an early story of his that appeared in the Pall Mall Gazettea and one about a mill and another about "a man who shoots a rival lover"; discussing his biography of Wilkie Collins; imaginging Wagenknecht's Walter surveying his own work.
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