The poet, novelist, and anthologist Walter De La Mare was born in Charleton, Kent, on 25 April 1873. He was educated at St. Paul's Cathedral Choristers' School in London. From 1890 until 1908, De La Mare worked for the Anglo-American Oil Company in London. However, after the appearance in 1902 of his Songs of childhood, under the pseudonym of Walter Ramal, he spent more and more time writing and his first novel Henry Brocken was published in 1904. A large output of poems, stories, novels, books for children and anthologies continued throughout the rest of his life. His production includes Poems (1906), The return (1910), The listeners (1912), Peacock pie (1913), Memoirs of a midget (1921), Come hither (1923), Behold, this dreamer (1939), The Burning Glass (1945), The Traveller (1946), Inward Companion (1950), and O Lovely England (1953). He was made Companion of Honour in 1948, and received the Order of Merit in 1953. Walter De La Mare died in Twickenham on 22 June 1956. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
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Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Wood, thanking him for his letter and saying he is "sorry you will be obliged to omit some of the poems you selected, but of course there's no help for it. May one of the others be substituted for Bunches of Grapes which has already been over-used? Have you written to Longman's? I'm afraid they will want a fee - but please tell them you have made arrangements with me. The poems from Peacock Pie I have Complete Control - as far as anthologies etc are concerned...
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Long autograph letter signed, from Walter de la Mare to John Atkins, dated 2 April 1948, The Old Park. The letter says that "Alas, I didn't deserve one word of your reference to the R.L.F [Royal Literary Fund]. I wish it were otherwise. Illness as you know prevented my attending the Meeting of the Committee. ... I was very glad to hear that a grant has been awarded... . All that you said concerning the writing of books keenly interested me. There are outstanding exceptions, of course, but,...
Short autograph signed letter by Walter de la Mare, sent to Miss Nancy Bowden on the 12 May 1947 from The Old Park, Penn. De la Mare replies to a previous letter from Bowden, commenting on some remarks she made on notepapers, "Mrs Monro's address" that she heard through Mr Masefield, and on Charlotte Mew's poetry and women's in general.
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This is a typed signed letter (two lines in holograph) from Walter de la Mare to Nancy Bowden, dated The Old Park, Penn, 5 May 1947. De la Mare writes to Bowden of his "particular pleasure" in receiving her previous letter in which she wrote how she "discovered and with so much delight and interest Charlotte Mew's poems". De la Mare offers a few lines about Mew's life and poetry: "As Mr Masefield says, it is possible that her two Collections were not reprinted because she did not wish them...
Typed letter, with autograph addition, from Walter de la Mare to Rosemary Sisson (1923-2017), the nine-year-old daughter of his friend, the academic and author Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966). As an adult, Rosemary Sisson would become a successful novelist and television dramatist.
Signed autograph letter from Walter de la Mare to Rosemary Sisson (1923-2017), the eight-year old daughter of his friend, the academic and author Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966). As an adult, Rosemary Sisson would become a successful novelist and television dramatist. There is also an envelope addressed to "Miss Rosemary Sisson".
This collection includes a total of 23 Walter De la Mare letters dating from 1926 to 1953 including: 14 letters to Mrs. Verity (7 autograph letters signed and 7 typed letters signed); 3 autograph letters signed to Marie Lamigeon; 6 typed letters signed to various other people. More perspective on Walter De la Mare's thinking can be understood regarding this important and accomplished English poet and novelist.
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This collection consists of three typed letters from Walter de la Mare to academic and author Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966), dated 6, 23, and 27 November 1933, and two typed letters to Sisson's nine-year-old daughter Rosemary Anne Sisson (1923-2017), a future novelist and television dramatist, dated 24 August and 27 September 1933.In his letters to Rosemary, de la Mare is mostly talking about his poems and answering her comments and stories about her own occupations; and in...
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This fonds consists of four typed letters signed from Walter de la Mare to Jon Wynne-Tyson, all dated 1953, together with carbon copies of the replies from Wynne-Tyson.
Typed letter signed from Walter de la Mare to Jon Wynne-Tyson, Twickenham, 9 September 1953: "how well I recollect a little difficulty that occurred over a brief but obscure rhyme which was contributed to Enquiry. I had no notion of...
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This fonds consists of three autographed letters signed from Walter de la Mare to Sir Michael Sadler and Mary Ann Harvey Sadler (Lady Sadler), all dated 1921.
Autograph letter signed from Walter de la Mare to Michael Sadler, London, 10 March 1921: “I think perhaps John Keats would be the best title for the lecture: it would give the most freedom, & I could centralise on any particular aspect of the...
