Esther Adams to Rebecca West, 1970-02-07

"My dear, dear Rebecca, Your wonderful letter gives me the feeling that I have just seen you, and that I am at least slightly aucourant with what you have been doing and feeling in the last year. Every word is of interest. I am shocked that you should have had wearying legal business to hold you a sort of prisoner in London when you wanted to be free. I hope that all those affairs will arrange themselves according to your wishes. It is rather a stickler to have legatees waiting for your death. They must change it. You understand, I feel, about Jack. He was a darling fellow, with many things stacked against him..."