BIB_ID
456008
Accession number
MA 4817.122
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 December 16, 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 in this letter.
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
Thanking him for the letter "kindly suggesting that you should send my father a book rest"; saying her father "is getting on very well & is now sitting up for a short time each day" and that he is cheerful despite illness and enjoying the rest; sending him "very kind rememberances".
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