Adam, H. Pearl (Helen Pearl Adam), 1882-1957
Dates
- Existence: 1882-04-25 - 1957-01-02
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1940-10-02
"Canon Dimnet asks me to send you his good wishes. I received on Sept. 23 a card from him written in Avignon on July 25. He said he was returning to Paris as soon as he could get a permit and asked me to write to him 'about mid-August' at the Chanoinesses. There was no further news - he did not say how he was..."
H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1942-11-16 - 1943-02-23
"Dear Miss West, You will be glad to hear that I have had another message from the Canon. It is dated '11.16.42' which I take to be November 16, in answer to the message I sent him (of which I sent you a copy) last August. One can read between the lines of 'rheumatism and worse' but 'certitude is the best remedy' shows that his spirit is unchanged..."
H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1942-08-24
"I on August 13 wrote to Canon Dimnet: Delighted have news. Barbara, Ruth, Rebecca, self, well, working; send heartiest greetings and confident hopes for happy future our countries and friends meeting. Love. Pearl Adam. Please excuse the familiar use of Christian names; 25 words is so little, and there is less danger of confusion than with surnames. Have you happened to see Thomas Kernan's 'Report on France', published by Lane this year? A friend sends me this extract..."
H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1942-08-24
"Dear Miss West, Please excuse the hasty method of enclsed[sic] slip - I wanted yourself and Miss Gray and Miss Anderson to know exactly the greeting sent to the Canon. Twenty-five words are a scanty ration; and when one sits down to compose a message there does not seem anything in the world which it shall be at once permissible and possible to say!..."