BIB_ID
455760
Accession number
MA 4817.105
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 with 1953 coronation decoration, stamped and postmarked on the verso with address panel: "Professor Edward Wagenknecht / 233 Otis Street / West Newton 66 / Boston Mass: / U.S.A." and sender's address panel: "W.J. de la Mare / 4 South End House, Montpelier Row / Twickenham, Middlesex, England".
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Catching up on "enquiries of the 18th"; discussing changing publishers and leaving Holt after the Collected Rhymes for Children; saying "Private View is a selection of old reviews (1909 to roughly 1918) and one or two others from the T.L.S., Westminster Gazette and Edinburgh Review."; hearing that Wagenknecht's "reading from the Ancient Bard was well attended"; and commenting "How very good of Elizabeth Bowen" and saying she was staying in the same hotel when he "went up to Oxford for my Honorary degree"; hoping to see Rosamond Lehmann when he gets back; hearing that Wagenknecht's reading was a success; joking about Wagneknecht discussing his age.
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