West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

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"Dear Sir, I should be glad if you would issue tickets for anything she may wish to Miss Sarah Denny, at 2, Dadogan Lane, S.W.1., to the value of £20, chargeable to my account..."

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"Dear Sir, I would be glad if you would issue tickets for anything he may wish to Mr. Robert Lyons, c/o Mrs. Mary Lyons, at the above address, to the value of £30 pounds, to be chargeable to my account..."

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"Dear Mr. Grindea, Thank you very much for your letter and the enclosures which I am keeping because I would like to look over them. I am rather busy just now owing to various factors, one of them being that my husband is away. I wonder if you could come down to lunch on Sunday, the 11th, as that is almost my only free day. I think, in fact, we haven't met because I was not at the luncheon given in honour of H.G. Wells at the Dorchester..."

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"Dear Mr. Grindea, Following up our conversation the other day when you told me that it was important that the printers of 'Adam', who are threatening to foreclose unless they are paid, should receive some money. Will you please let me know whether the sum of £100 paid to the printers would provide a breathing space?..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mr. Abbatt, I feel obliged to explain to you that I am supporting Mrs. Towerton and not you in the Council Election, and my reasons. I have, as I think I have told you, voted Labour all my life, and have engaged in various Labour enterprises. [...] I find I am startled by your election address. It implies that Miss Towerton belongs to 'the upper and middle classes', and knows nothing of the ordinary man, except in 'the relation of boss and working'. But you know...

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"Darling Rec, I have just concluded the last paragraph of my note on my talk with Gille and just want to say that 'accounted to Mr. Otts' would of course read 'counted unto Mr. Otto'. Would you please insert that correction and change the capital L of Land in the last line to a small l..."

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"Darling Rac, Your two letters reached me on my return. I had spent the evening of Sunday at Baroness Kuigge's house. On Monday morning first a talk with Political Officer at Hanover and then with the German official for refugee affairs. After lunch Lingham and I drove to Volkmrote..."

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"Darling Rac, I yesterday got out of Louis all that he said he could remember. Today Greenhalgh told us the retreat fast, which Louis had not mentioned, and which was decisive. Louis is..."

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"My dear Rac, I thought you would like to have this [preface?] of Harold Nicolaus about. He is charming, though oddly enough he doesn't see the purpose of enduring the intense [?] of the children. It really is remarkable how in everything you write, [?] take it that a great yard of the [out house?] is life itself..."

Scope and Contents "Darling Rac, Everything here has gone off [splendidly?] and faster than Barclays thought possible. They have got [?] of your [?] from High Wycombe and can therefore [?] open the amount for you at Cannes without bothering you. This morning at 8.30 your time I telephoned to Erik Dunstan and asked him to get the doctor to send a telegram authenticated by Barclays, Cannes to Barclay London requesting them to provide foreign exchange for a stated number of days for your recovery and at 11.30am...