Typed letter signed : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner, 1946 Jan. 8.

Record ID: 
292370
Accession number: 
MA 2234.58
Author: 
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956.
Credit: 
Gift of Gordon N. Ray, 1962.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 13.9 x 18.4 cm + envelope
Notes: 

With postmark and stamp.
The typed letter continues as an autograph letter (9 lines) on p. 2.
Part of a large collection of autograph and typed letters from Walter de la Mare to Tom Turner. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2234.1-84).

Summary: 

Discussing the act of reading with "intense awareness and out-of-the-worldness"; mentioning [C.M.] Bowra's Heritage of Symbolism; saying that he has been asked to write an introduction to a book about Chardin.

Provenance: 
Gordon N. Ray.