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| Creator: | de la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, British author | |
| Title | Walter de la Mare Papers | |
| Quantity: | 1 folder | |
| Identification: | WTU00179 | |
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Walter de la Mare was born at Charlton, Kent, in the south of England, of well-to-do parents. de la Mare was loosely connected with the literary tradition of Wordsworth and Coleridge. de la Mare's reputation as a poet was established by the volume The Listener and Other Poems (1912). De la Mare wrote for both children and adults. His best-known novel is Memoirs of a Midget (1921), which described sympathetically the world of Miss M., or Miss Thomasina. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922. He died in Twickenham, near London, on June 22, 1956. De la Mare is buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
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The de la Mare papers consist of 5 letters to Marie Adami in which he thanks her for gifts and alludes to the event of his wife’s death. There is also a letter from [Roscio?] to Adami regarding de la Mare and some clippings connected to the author.
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Accession 1055
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Series I. Correspondence |
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| Originally laid in Love by de la Mare, Faber & Faber, 1943. PN6110 L6 D4 | |||||||||||||
| de la Mare, Walter to Adami, Marie | |||||||||||||
| 1938: July 27 TLS, 1 p | |||||||||||||
| de la Mare thanking Mrs. Adami for her gift of a book and commenting on his reading of same. | |||||||||||||
| 1938: November 2 TLS, 1 p | |||||||||||||
| de la Mare thanking Mrs. Adami for her gift of a tiny mouse and commenting on his recent correspondence with Ralph Abercrombie. | |||||||||||||
| 1938: November 21 TLS, 1 p | |||||||||||||
| de la Mare expressing his disappointment at Mrs. Adami's missing their luncheon engagement due to an illness. | |||||||||||||
| 1939: January 27 TLS, 1 p | |||||||||||||
| de la Mare expressing hope that Mrs. Adami will soon be able to come for a visit. | |||||||||||||
| [n.d.] ALS, 2 pp | |||||||||||||
| de la Mare thanking Mrs. Adami for her recent letter and relating that his "last book gave me more toil & trouble that any other." He makes reference to his current domestic arrangements, presumably following his wife's death. | |||||||||||||
| Roschio (?) to Adami, Marie | |||||||||||||
| 1956: May 6 TLS, 2 pp | |||||||||||||
| Roschio (?) describing an interview he just had with de la Mare and the conversation they had regarding Mrs. Adami. | |||||||||||||
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Series II. Clippings |
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