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Polaroid snapshot of Margaret Murray Gooding, Undated
Consists of correspondence from V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, photographs, negatives, notes, clippings, ephemera, and correspondence between Naipaul and others.
Postcard of Picasso painting "Sketchbook #165", 1986-11-12
Handwritten note reads "VSN 12 Nov 86".
Postcard of Rembrandt drawing "Study of a man", Undated
Naipaul's handwritten note on the verso reads "A young man, sah".
V.S. Naipaul to Manchi Sabat, 1972-07-17
"Could you telephone Margaret Murray (73-5012) and tell her discreetly about my arrival time? It would be nice if she could meet me at the airport. If she can't make it, then I hope that you may be free. I don't have Margaret's home number with me; the number I have given is the number of her mother's house, where she is on weekday mornings..."
V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1972-06-03
"I have just arrived here, in this hateful northern Venezuelan hotel, which charges as much as the [Nozuro?] and is awful: how ugly everybody seems here. How everything seems ugly after that magical moment this morning - for which I had longed and for which I was badly prepared. Send me some great love..."
V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1972-06-16
"At times like this - I have had one of my blank mornings, and they occur about 3 or 4 times a week - I hate writing and feel I am in the wrong profession. You of course will agree..."
V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1972-06-23
"You have your children and perhaps you will not understand how excited and irritated and depressed, but more depressed than excited, I am at the loss of mine. I think there would have been something rather marvellous there: it was too perfect and beautiful. I doubt whether it will occur again..."
V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1972-06-25
"Three days ago I wrote you a longish letter. I enclosed an American Express $50 traveller's cheque, made out in your name; this was to cover your little murder. I also enclosed a clipping from the New York review of my article on Jean Rhys, which I wanted you to read..."
V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1972-07-16
"Heaven knows when this will get to you. Argentina is pretty far away; and goodness, so is New Zealand. It was a nightmare journey out. And then, when we were just four hours away, one of the engines of our aeroplane failed and we had to dump fuel and return to Tahiti; and there we waited for something like 21 hours..."
V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1972-07-21
"I was upset to hear that your operation was harrowing and unpleasant. I think you should be more careful in the future, because although I know nothing of these matters I don't see how too many of these operations can be good for you. And what a relief, though, to hear that all my letters had arrived..."