BIB_ID
455632
Accession number
MA 4817.91
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased 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 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
Commenting that his "poor memory quietly but steadily more and more resembles a Gruyere cheese"; saying "William Sullivan's thesis--and Disseptation indeed it is--reached me 2 days ago" and admiring the appearance and asking Wagenknecht to "tell him that it would be impossible to thank him too much for the immense care, time, and trouble, thought and insight her must have spent on it"; reflecting on writing from his twenties; saying he is glad Wagenknecht liked the Times Literary Supplement with a reprint of his work; feeling interested in "the picture of Virginia Woolf" and recalling "a little tea-party at Lady Ottoline Morrel's when she and W.B. Yeats were the only other guests"; doing "a perfectly dreadful review of Kenneth Robinson's book on Wilie Collins"; saying he is sorry to hear about illness and hoping Walter is well; hoping there is news of the play; quoting Francis Thompson on poetry.
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