West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

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.

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Lists Ernest Andrews as a tradesman, aged 38, of 9 Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, W. Indicates that it was issued by the St. Marylebone Borough Council.

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Translates to: "The Police Authority hereby certifies upon request that Ernest Andrews, who was born in Hamberg on October 12, 1858, has acquired his Hamburg nationality by descent for more than ten years..." according to the law.

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Handwritten document about the naturalization of Louis Henry John Andrews.

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Papers of passport issued to Ernest Andrews, issued by William Ward, the Consul-General of various areas of the British Empire. Contains multiple additions and notes, presumably from Andrews' travels, but also possibly from someone in the Andrews family or Rebecca West as part of family research.