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West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1892-12-21 - 1983-03-15

Biography

Author, reporter, and literary critic.

Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:

Gordon N. Ray to Rebecca West, 1960-09-21

 Item — Box 1: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1986.002.1.1.1.020
Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs. Andrews: I was delighted to get your letter of September 12.[...]The Guggenheim Foundation's program is confined to the awarding of Fellowships to scholars and artists of distinction, and we have no funds for other purposes. Consequently, there is nothing that we can do to help Mr. Grindea with Adam. I have discussed Mr. Grindea's needs with Mr. W. McNeil Lowry, director of the Program in Humanities and the Arts of The Ford Foundation. He too feels that...
Dates: 1960-09-21
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Adam International Review

H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1940-10-02

 Item — Box 1: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.1.2.001
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"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..."

Dates: 1940-10-02
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Adam, H., Pearl

H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1942-11-16 - 1943-02-23

 Item — Box 1: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.1.2.002
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"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..."



Dates: 1942-11-16 - 1943-02-23
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Adam, H., Pearl

H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1942-08-24

 Item — Box 1: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.1.2.003
Scope and Contents

"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..."

Dates: 1942-08-24
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Adam, H., Pearl

H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1942-08-24

 Item — Box 1: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.1.2.004
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"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!..."

Dates: 1942-08-24
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Adam, H., Pearl

Harry N. Abrams to Rebecca West, January 1973

 Item — Box 1: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1986.002.1.1.1.006
Scope and Contents "To One of the 'Famous Faces' We thought you would like to know that you are among those present in L. Arnold Weissberger's remarkable collection of photographs, FAMOUS FACES, which we have just published. [...]FAMOUS FACES is now available at all leading bookstores in the United States. If, however, it would be more convenient, we would be happy to accept your remittance for $35.00 plus $1.00 for handling and postage, and deliver your copy directly from our...
Dates: January 1973
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Abrams, Inc., Harry N.

Harry N. Abrams to Rebecca West, December 1973

 Item — Box 1: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1986.002.1.1.1.007
Scope and Contents

"For immediate Release: FAMOUS FACES, A pictorial 'Who's Who' of celebrated people by L. Arnold Weissberger Published by Abrams For the past quarter of a century, L. Arnold Weissberger, noted theatrical attorney, has been compiling an extraordinary candid photographic chronicle of the world's most noted people..."

Dates: December 1973
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Abrams, Inc., Harry N.

[Henry Andrews] to G.E. Steevens, 1968-01-02

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.042
Scope and Contents

"Dear Mr. Steevens, How very kind of you to write in connection with our loss. All these items had a personal story attached to them and we were very fond of them. You have been very much in our minds on account of what we have heard of your accident..."

Dates: 1968-01-02
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

Henry Andrews to Mrs. Andrews, 1935-08-25

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.017
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"Have had announcement of Lisa Smidt's engagement forwarded here. Please let me know if this is the older of the four girls..."

Dates: 1935-08-25
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

[Henry Andrews] to Mrs. J.E. Spingarn, 1968-01-23

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.043
Scope and Contents "Private and Strictly Confidential: Your kind letter sent to me through Harry Walston has deeply touched and delighted me and I want to thank you most sincerely for it. ... Everyone was conscious of Lewis's charm. This was very disarming and it was closely associated with his manners. I use this word deliberately as dintinguished[sic] from his charm because I have in mind not merely his most attractive social manners but manners in a profound intellectual and spiritual sense which made him...
Dates: 1968-01-23
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

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