BIB_ID
455985
Accession number
MA 4817.115
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 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: "Walter de la Mare / 4 South End House / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham, Middlesex".
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Saying "your 'Edward' is beginning to resemble Napoleon's graphic symbol when he really became assured of himself" and that if Wagenknecht somes "you shall se the little cup--execrable taste"; feeling "awfully glad your Longfellow is done" and ssaying "I can't forgive the world at large for the non-publication, as yet, of your Mary Queen of Scots"; working through "very old rhymes for the nursery" and "a selection of the old Lectures for publication" and "contemplating a critical survey of human knowledge"; "awaiting like a squab cuckoo for your letter about A Beginning. Make it as rough and unfriendly as you possibly can".
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