Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Walter de la Mare, Twickenham, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1952 December 31 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

BIB_ID
455644
Accession number
MA 4817.99
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 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
Answering late; discussing collection of stories with August Derleth and apologizing for the trouble of Wagenknecht writing the introduction without an arrangement; taking Wagenknecht's advice on "the Authors' League"; suffering over writing an introduction; reading "the new R.L.S. [Robert Louis Stevenson?] book" and is "about 50 pages through a life of Chekov" and responding to comment regarding Wilkie Collins; sending Walter a book and asking what else he should send.