Walter de la Mare, 1873-1958. British author
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Finding-Aid for the De la Mare Papers [00179]Collection Description
Letters, 1938, 1956
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Born at Charlton, Kent, in the south of England, of well-to-do parents, this British novelist and poet 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, 1958. De la Mare is buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
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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De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1958. British author