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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 111 Collections and/or Records:

"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

"Rac" to "Ric", 1960-03-02

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.029
Scope and Contents

"My dearest Ric, You would never believe the things that have been happening to me. My life with the dear Miss Holts was wonderful but trying. The nature of their house can be gathered from the fact that they wanted to spend a summer in England two years ago and were only allowed to take five hundred each, which would never do, so they took two china pheasants off the mantlepiece and took hem[sic] to London and sold them at Sotheby's for four thousand pounds..."

Dates: 1960-03-02
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

"Rac" to "Ric", 1960-03-21

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.030
Scope and Contents "My dear Ric, I write this in some agitation as I am not sure lest some report of what happened yesterday may have got back to England. It was a most fantastic incident. My journey started with an odd misaddventure[sic], I started from Jonnesburg[sic] on Wednesday morning in a temperature of round about 80%, and arrived at Bloemfontein in the same stuffy heat. This is a dreary town and my hotel was frightful, but I got through the day admirably, resting and doing some shops and having a most...
Dates: 1960-03-21
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

"Rac" to "Ric", 1960-03-30

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.031
Scope and Contents "My dear Ric, I am back here in Johannesburg after a very odd trip. Nothing ever happens here normally. My stay in Maseru was not quite as I represented to you in the letter I sent from there, for I felt it was not safe to express myself freely after I had found my letter of credit spread out on the bed when I knew I had left it in its envelope in the handbag beside it. I liked my host, Gordon Hector, very much. He was not very intelligent and not very well-bred and quite obtuse, but he was...
Dates: 1960-03-30
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Rebecca West collection / Correspondence / Andrews, Henry Maxwell

"Rac" to "Ric", undated

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Frame: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.032
Scope and Contents

"My dear Ric, Just a line written between Karthur and Nairobi to tell you and the family that the flight till now has been very good. But thank goodness I wore my suit and took a white coat for the plane was [?] cold till the sun came up after we left Karthur, and it was cold enough at Rome Airport..."

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

"Rac" to "Ric", undated

 Item — Box 2: Series 1986.002.1.1-70; Series 1986.002.2.1-75; Series 1986.002.3.1-68, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1986.002.1.2.2.033
Scope and Contents

"Dear Ric, These [undisciplined? undisputed?] Ric barbers! I dined last night with John Constance, who has a most beautiful home and garden - but I thought him an odd fish and he is the only person I have met who speaks well of apartheid and does not see it as an economic [damper?]..."

Dates: undated
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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