BIB_ID
455768
Accession number
MA 4817.107
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 with 1953 coronation decoration, stamped and postmarked on the verso with address panel: "Mr. Edward Wagenknecht. / 233, Otis Street, / West Newton, / Mass., / U.S.A." and sender's address panel: "3/4 South End House, / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham, Mddx."
Please be aware that this item contains a racial slur.
Please be aware that this item contains a racial slur.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Complimenting Wagenknecht's letter and calling himself "a lazy old gaffer"; expressing surprise that the copy of "Private View" did not come; discussing telling a story to Dick; asking for more about Archie the cat and remembering his cats and having jaundice; discussing Frances Pindyck's death and remembering her; discussing Viking Press "taking sheets of Private View, and as it turned out, the charge Faber's asked for them proved to be not acceptable; saying Viking decided against new poems; considering an American edition of "O lovely England".
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