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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:

"R." to Henry Andrews, 1931-08-27

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.014
Scope and Contents

"This is the stuff to climb! [?] the reasonable heights. We start for [Laris?] on Sunday night, the Hotel Raphael. At last the gale has fallen, and we long to stay - silken blue seas and a full moon. That nice Mrs. Haslipp we met at..."

Dates: 1931-08-27
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

RA Healy (Edward Harris Ltd.) to Rebecca West, 1969-05-07

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.044
Scope and Contents

"Dear Madam, Thank you for your letter of the 24th April regarding a suitable memorial for your late husband. The memorial we erected in Fingest that you mention is of Portland stone and is in the form of kerbing surrounding the grave space and a large cross set on four basis at the head of the grave..."

Dates: 1969-05-07
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

RA Healy (Edward Harris Ltd.) to Rebecca West, 1969-06-02

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.045
Scope and Contents

"Dear Madam, Thank you for your letter dated 12 May, enclosing the photograph and sketch. These will enable us to draw up a design for your approval..."

Dates: 1969-06-02
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

"Rac" to Henry Andrews, date illegible

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.012
Scope and Contents

"I got away this morning with unavoidable difficulty - 6 hard boiled eggs and 1/2 kilo cherries were put into the caras refresha as elevenses, so you can gather the strain my digestion has been put to of late. I went to Giacornia but the light was bad..."

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

"Rac" to Henry Andrews, date illegible

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.013
Scope and Contents

"[Drive?] from Vrepca today - 7.30. till 4.- but it was not really as nice as our drive for it was stifling hot but cloudy and grey. I think I have found out what is wrong with the end of the book and I believe I [can? can't?] finish it as well at home, so I shall probably be with you before very long. I have such a nice chauffeur..."

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

"Rac" to Henry Andrews", 1938-06-01

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.016
Scope and Contents

"I got here this evening after a very nice journey in a motorbus (45 [Omars?] the whole way!) through fields of narcissus and hedges of wild roses. Lake Presba looked lovely in the distance..."

Dates: 1938-06-01
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

"Rac" to Henry Andrews, date illegible

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.018
Scope and Contents

"Familiar scene! I am so sorry we did not stay here longer, it is an exquisite place to winter in. I have found a cafe in the top of a hill near the town that is smothered in acacia trees, I wrote up there most of the day..."

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

"Rac" to Henry Andrews, 1936-04-16

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.011
Scope and Contents

"Poor Racs linguistic miseries! She went to a monastery (Naiseu) to see a marvellous fresco and found a [?] from Luke La[?], but met him in [?]..."

Dates: 1936-04-16
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

"Rac" to "Ric", received Monday January 25, 1960

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.025
Scope and Contents

"My dear Ric, Herewith two forms, one signed as requested, the other requiring the signature of the Income Tax people. I have now started working in earnest, and I have accumulated a great deal of material. I have wandered over hospitals big and small and gate-crashed schools and attended the treason trial (see the enclosed cutting, which made me laugh a lot) and dined with a number of people - last night with June and Guy Hughes..."

Dates: received Monday January 25, 1960
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

"Rac" to "Ric", 1960-03-06

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.028
Scope and Contents "My dear Ric, I left the Tiraus Rei after a wonderful day with mad missionaires and a religious maniac furniture maker, and went through Pundlau - wheel is like Greece, but green and glorious and covered with flowering shrubs of the most spectacular [?]. Saw Mr. Hyberg: 'I WOULD LIKE TO START A TOURIST HAGENCY HERE. HUN FORTUNATELY IT ISS THE 'OME OF THE BLACK MAMBA, YESS, AND OF THE GREEN MAMBA TOO.' DEEP SIGH. 'BUT IT ISS OUR EXPERIENCE-' MORE HOPEFULLY - 'THAT SNIKES NEVER INHEBIT...
Dates: 1960-03-06
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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