BIB_ID
456011
Accession number
MA 4817.124
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 May 31 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 MA 4817.122-3.
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 and saying "you will--by the time you recieve this have had my father's letter to you and I hope the book" posted last week; having a good report from the doctor and thinking "he has not been happier & so serene for many years"; saying "He came back to Penn just about a fortnight ago and will, I think, be with us for the summer at least".
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