West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

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Blank envelope with 2 math problems handwritten on the back. One reads "1893-1863 = 30". The other is the same, but crossed out.

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"Dear Rebecca, I think often of you - especially now when I definitely plan to go to England. I hope very much that I may see you there - I arrive at the Hotel Mayfair, Berkeley St. W.1, on July 24th and plan to stay until August 7th. I am here in Maine until July 15th. I don't like to start in statistics, but I am cowed with travel agents who say that one cannot change a date at all..."

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"Dear Rebecca, I wonder how you are, and I hope well. The same for Henry. It must be the height of spring, or even the beginning of summer, at Ibstone House. That lovely view of the hills and the garden in the foreground. ... I had a letter from Arthur Stratton yesterday. He says that the galleys of his book, 'The Great Red Island' (Madagascar) must by now be in your hands, sent by Scribner's or by Macmillan in London with a request for a comment from you for the dust jacket..."

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"My dear Rebecca, Arthur Stratton told me some time ago that you sent your Ford rights[?] to me. I was pleased, too, that Arthur may meet you in London. It is actually a number of years ago that he told me of his great admiration for you - it is the fulfillment of all this time and all these thoughts that you should [...] to converse together..."

Scope and Contents "My dear Rebecca, Your letter, save for the news of your illness, brought joy to me and to a number of others. I hang my head to have let it go unacknowledged for such a long time, long enough for me to have written to Arthur in Istanbul, for him to have answered by return, and for me to have told the gist of them to his sister, Barbara Bolling, and my son Tim in Washington. I am delighted that you priase the book so highly, and thank you warmly for writing. I am distressed to hear of your...

Scope and Contents "My dear Rebecca, I think of you often. I wonder how you are, what you are doing, how you look, whom you see and everything. You won't believe this concern now that so long a time has gone by since I received the notice of your new address. At that time I was going to write at once and hoped to have news of you, but shortly after that I had a great grief in the death of my youngest son, Jack. He was thirty six, had a wife and two small boys, and committed suicide. You have had grief with a...

Scope and Contents "My dear, dear Rebecca, Your wonderful letter gives me the feeling that I have just seen you, and that I am at least slightly aucourant with what you have been doing and feeling in the last year. Every word is of interest. I am shocked that you should have had wearying legal business to hold you a sort of prisoner in London when you wanted to be free. I hope that all those affairs will arrange themselves according to your wishes. It is rather a stickler to have legatees waiting for your...

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"Dearest Cecily, A happy Xmas! Have not heard from you for a long time. Do hope all is well with you - This has been a bad year for me as regards health, but very satisfying in other ways. I resent world conditions are not to[sic] cheerful, but we came through two wars, so we may weather this one!!..."

Scope and Contents Typewritten letter."Dear Cecily, Here we are, almost at Christmas and I can hardly believe it! It has always been a great pleasure for me to write at least once a year to all my friends - but this year, because of arthritis, my hands are crippled. Then, out of the blue, I receive a note from two dear young friends, telling me to write my Christmas message and send the script to them...""This has been a very difficult year for most of us here in Britain, what with bad...

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Memorial Service for Dame Rebecca West and 2 photographs featuring West.