West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

Scope and Contents "Dear Dame Rebecca, In case you might have been wondering about our prolonged silence I should like you to know that we have been through new difficulties, but we do hope to be able to carry on for at least another year or so thus reaching ADAM's thirtieth year of publication. This afternoon while perusing The New Freewoman I was amazed - and delighted - to come across an essay of yours Trees of gold which must have been written when you were still a teenager. As I have reasons to suspect...

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"Dear Dame Rebecca, We are now preparing a special issue on 'The Impact of the October Revolution upon Contemporary Literature and Art', and should be most grateful if you would let us have your views on the subject..."

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"Dear Dame Rebecca, Our next issue will, in addition to the publication in full of the two winning entries in Adam's novel competition, include a world symposium on Georges Simenon. We should be very glad - and grateful - if you could give us your frank opinion on the Belgian protean novelist..."

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"Sorry to learn that you haven't been feeling too well recently. I do hope you have recovered by now. May I add that I still hope to receive your contribution to our next issue which will be entirely to the London Library..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Dame Rebecca, While I was still in the States friends put aside for me a copy of your most recent article in the Sunday Telegraph: the devastating description of the Isherwood freemasonry. I laughed and laughed and, as usual, loved every word of what you had to say. The verve of your writing indicates that you are, once again, in full possession of your inimitable style. Which encourages me to enquire whether we may count on your contribution to the forthcoming issue of Adam which will...

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"Dear Dame Rebecca, After a rather wearisome week spent at St. Thomas' Hosp. I am back in Brighton literally racing against time to have our London Library issue ready for the press by the end of the month. It was most kind of you to agree to write a piece which, I can assure you, will enhance the documentary value of this special number..."

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"Dear Dame Rebecca, Sorry to hear that once again, you are in pain. From a hospital bed, I send you all my love and devotion. Arrived here for a surgical investigation but no sooner did I reach the operation theatre than the anaesthetist noticed that I had some breathing problems..."

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"Dear Dame Rebecca, I do hope that you listened to the recording of your superb talk which has just come off the air. My wife, my daughter and I were simply enthralled by your most moving delivery. I wonder whether you would care to have the text of the broadcast printed in our forthcoming jubilee issue - No. 300..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Dame Rebecca, I do hope that your health has improved during the summer and that you have been by now able to resume your writing. Alas, I have gone through a series of quite unnecessary experiences ... During some research conerning Modigliani I recently came across the 'cursing' records of a considerably interesting crank - Beatrice Hastings, friend and then mortal foe of Orage, a popular drunkard in Montparnasse during 1914-1916, then a theosophist in Hampstead, finally a tragic...

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Transcribed copy from the original letter.

Verso contains a letter from Moore to the editor of The Daily Telegraph commenting on Rebecca West's review of Moore's biography of Edith Nesbit.