BIB_ID
455986
Accession number
MA 4817.116
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 page) ; 24.4 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Written on blue Air Mail stationery stamped and postmarked on the verso with address panel: "Mr. Edward Wagenknecht, / 233, Otis Street, / West Newton 65, / Massachusetts, / U.S.A." and sender's address panel: "Walter de la Mare, / 4, South End House, / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham, Midd".
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Saying "I cannot read so much, or for so long, as I used to only a few years ago, while the wish and need to do so are contrarily getting more acute"; having not finished the Longfellow but complimenting the research and discussing Longfellow's relationship with his wife and the tragedy of her death; saying "I hadn't any idea that you were going to toil through those T.L.S. articles"; mentioning "Miss Nancy Mitford's sorting of common phrases into 'used'--by the really genteel. And used only by the more or less vulgar" and Evelyn Waugh mocking this; wishing to talk about the stories in A Beginning and suggesting Wagenknecht should come here and bring Walter.
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