West, Rebecca, 1892-1983
Dates
- Existence: 1892-12-21 - 1983-03-15
Biography
Author, reporter, and literary critic.
Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:
H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1942-11-16 - 1943-02-23
"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..."
H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1942-08-24
"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..."
H. Pearl Adam to Rebecca West, 1942-08-24
"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!..."
Harry N. Abrams to Rebecca West, January 1973
Harry N. Abrams to Rebecca West, December 1973
"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..."
[Henry Andrews] to G.E. Steevens, 1968-01-02
"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..."
Henry Andrews to Mrs. Andrews, 1935-08-25
"Have had announcement of Lisa Smidt's engagement forwarded here. Please let me know if this is the older of the four girls..."
[Henry Andrews] to Mrs. J.E. Spingarn, 1968-01-23
Johannes [Leung?] to "Ric", 1960-02-19
"My deaar Ric, Forgive me for not having written for so long, but I have had strange adventures. I don't know how far I had got when I last wrote. But it has been a most curious story..."
Margaret Storm Jameson to Rebecca West, 1959-11-30
"My dear Rebecca, The editor of ADAM, my friend Miron Grindea, does not really need this introduction to you, since you certainly know all about ADAM, its quality, and its international reputation. All I could possibly add to what you know would be my great respect for his lifetime of effort, sacrifice and devotion, to create and to keep alive this excellent review..."