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, 1953 June 11 : typescript signed with autograph manuscript postscript.

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.