BIB_ID
456009
Accession number
MA 4817.123
Creator
Thompson, Florence, 1899-1990, sender.
Credit line
Purchased Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.2 x 15.2 cm
Notes
Dated February 24, 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 the "reading-stand" mentioned in this letter.
Written on white stationery printed with "The Old Park, / Penn, / Buckinghamshire. / Tel. 3157".
Written on white stationery printed with "The Old Park, / Penn, / Buckinghamshire. / Tel. 3157".
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter; saying that "The reading-stand which you have so very kindly sent my father has not arrived yet" and "Parcels from America have been taking an amazingly long time to cross the Atlantic"; saying her father is recovering well and was going on walks "beofre the arctic weather from Russia overtook us" and remarking that the "aeonites and crocuses are in full bloom under the snow"; thanking him for kindness; de la Mare adding in postscript: "if I could clamber up and down stairs as gracefully as I can use a pen--then things would be better"; hoping to go to the sea in April; looking forward to receiving his book.
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