Letter from Walter de la Mare, Twickenham, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1953 August 21 : typescript signed.

Saying "It seems a perfect abyss of time ago since I last heard from you" and that it would be easier to talk without the ocean between and saying "A friend in the country told me the other day that if one likes to risk it (and pay the fare) one can now fly across it, (and fairly safely)"; commenting that Wagenknecht knows "already of everything that has got into positive print"; discussing cricket, "the recent Test Match"; recalling his visit to Buckingham Palace "for the personal presentation of the O.M" and also remembering recieving the C.H. from George VI and describing "how individual and original a human being he was, with far less trace of the official and the formal as might perhaps be anticipated, say the highbrow poet"; discussing collection of poems coming out in October; wondering if he sent a copy of "Private View"; wishing he would send Walter and his mother for a visit; adding how much he thinks of Wagenknecht and wondering again if the books arrived.