BIB_ID
456007
Accession number
MA 4817.121
Creator
Thompson, Florence, 1899-1990, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 13.9 cm
Notes
Dated November 29, possible year of writing inferred from correspondence: a letter from September1947 (MA 4817.40) in which de la Mare says he "hasn't heard anything yet from Bobbs-Merrill regarding 'Stories from the Bible'"; a letter (MA 4817.41) from 29 November1947 in which he apologizes for the delay from being "laid up"; and an additional letter from May 1948 (MA 4817.42) in which he talks about recieving two "book-rests" from Wagenknecht, possibly those mentioned by Florence in MA 4817.122.
Written on blue stationery printed with "The Old Park, / Penn, / Buckinghamshire. / Tel. 3157".
Written on blue stationery printed with "The Old Park, / Penn, / Buckinghamshire. / Tel. 3157".
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Saying "my father, Walter de la Mare, has been very seriously ill for the last month. He is now making very good progress but he is still in bed & unable to deal with any business letters"; apologizing about "a delay in getting information about The Bible Stories" and asking "Miss Barton" to write to "Miss Patricia James" to get information; saying "My father has I know written to you to-day (one of his first letters) but he will not have mentioned your letter to him" because the doctor has forbidden business; hoping "that the Bobbs-Merrill Co. will get the information they need in good time".
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