BIB_ID
455988
Accession number
MA 4817.118
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, / Mass., / U.S.A." and sender's address panel: "W.J. de la Mare, / 3/4 South End House, / Montpelier Row, / Twickenham, Mddx".
Written at the top in an unknown hand: "His last letter to EW."
Written at the top in an unknown hand: "His last letter to EW."
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Thanking him "(a) for your review in the Chicago Sunday Tribune and (b) for the copy that you have had sent on to me"; supposing "it is a bad habit to mix up old and new in a collection of verse"; sending love to Walter and asking if there is any book or "anything else that a very old friend could send him that he would find really useful"; comparing the blessings of poetry to a triple somersault and saying "it is one's last somersault of all (not very distant by the way) that counts most".
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