BIB_ID
455672
Accession number
MA 4817.101
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: "Professor 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
Comparing flu to a demon and saying it has just left him; rejoicing in news of Walter; commenting on project featuring Mary Stuart; saying "I should think though I am not very keen sighted this way, that a study of Longfellow might be well worthwhile"; wondering "Did H.W.L [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] reside in a very big house? Did he and E.A.P. [Edgar Allan Poe] ever meet?"; hoping termites have not been costly; commenting on postscript about children; saying "I am as dry and sterile as the Gobi desert, so far as what's called composition goes"; discussing difficulty in writing and plans to travel in April; saying "Dick's Giles has captured a scholarship at Trinity College Ox: so he'll now have only 2 boys at Eton".
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