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Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018

 Person

Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-08-06

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2023.020.1.2.007
Scope and Contents

""Ever since I delivered the article to the Sunday Times I have been planning to be with you; and as a result I have never been able to finish any of the letters I have begun to write you. I have more unfinished letters to you than you have received..."

Dates: 1973-08-06

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-08-31

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2023.020.1.2.008
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Consists of correspondence from V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, photographs, negatives, notes, clippings, ephemera, and correspondence between Naipaul and others.

Dates: 1973-08-31

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-11-04

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2023.020.1.2.009
Scope and Contents

"I was wretched on the aeroplane, more wretched than I have ever been when leaving you, carrying that picture of you walking on the top of the roof of the airport building. During the night I fell asleep in my (seat in the aeroplane) chair; then someone crossed over my legs and woke me up. Waking, I thought: But that was Margaret. She is with me after all..."

Dates: 1973-11-04

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-11-20

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2023.020.1.2.010
Scope and Contents

"You asked some silly questions during our last few hours together. Of course I wasn't going to miss you right away. I wasn't capable of thinking that far ahead. I was in a state of shocking when I left you and was like a lunatic with grief on that aeroplane..."

Dates: 1973-11-20

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-12-04

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2023.020.1.2.011
Scope and Contents

"I have been writing you letters in my head for days. The photographs were beautiful. It is "astonishing" what the camera does: much depends on the attitude of the photographer to the thing or person photographed..."

Dates: 1973-12-04

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-12-06

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2023.020.1.2.012
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Consists of correspondence from V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, photographs, negatives, notes, clippings, ephemera, and correspondence between Naipaul and others.

Dates: 1973-12-06

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-12-16

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2023.020.1.2.013
Scope and Contents

"Yesterday I read all your early letters - from June to July 1972. There were not many of them; but the most startling and impressive thing is the way your personality has since altered, for the better. My poor girl, you were pretty low in those days, having all sense of your place in the world, watching your identity crushed..."

Dates: 1973-12-16

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, Sunday 28th 1973

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2023.020.1.2.014
Scope and Contents

"You killed my child without telling me. I didn't even know that you were pregnant. You never gave me a chance to think about it; you just decided that it would be more realistic. _You never told me_; and if I haven't mentioned it before it is because you seemed so cool about it. What would I have said? I don't want a child; I am complete with you and you alone..."

Dates: Sunday 28th 1973

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1974-01-26, 1974-01-30

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 2023.020.1.3.001
Scope and Contents

"I had thought that love and sexual passion would have brought me joy and that secret feeding of the soul; but when I look back I find it has brought me the kind of turmoil and torment that destroys..."

Dates: 1974-01-26; 1974-01-30

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1974-02-16

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 2023.020.1.3.002
Scope and Contents

"A birthday wish for you: I want to fuck you and fuck you and fuck you; I would like you to walk forever with the impression of my fucks inside you, scorching you. I can scream with the yearning I feel for you. Not only today, when your letter has come; but on many other days..."

Dates: 1974-02-16