Typed letters signed (18) and autograph letters signed (12) : Chicago, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1943-1970.

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Typed letters signed (18) and autograph letters signed (12) : Chicago, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1943-1970.

Inviting him to a meeting of the Chicago chapter of the "Baker Street Irregulars," of which he is "Chief Lunatic"; saying that a story ("Snow for Christmas") he sent for Wagenknecht's Christmas anthology is not as good as he had remembered; commenting on the work of Arthur Machen; recommending stories for various anthologies Wagenknecht is working on (including stories by Lafcadio Hearn, Quiller-Couch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Daphne Du Maurier, Rex Stout, Dashiell Hammett, Jane O'Ryan, and Elizabeth Daly); calling The Maltese Falcon "the best American detective novel to date"; thanking him for a dedication to The fireside book of romance; discussing Longellow scholarship; speculating (in 1955) about the case of Constance Kent; deploring "the wave of economy that has swept over the Trib [The Chicago Tribune]"; discussing Lillian de la Torre's Truth about Belle Gunness (1955); mentioning his autobiography; and asking for memorabilia about Ernest Hemingway, who was in Wagenknecht's graduating class at Oak Park High School.

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