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Scope and Contents "Dear Dame Rebecca, You really sent me home dreaming. It was not only the display of your irresistibly rich intelligence and with, but also the generosity with which you listened to ADAM'S clumsy epic. Many, many thanks for everything - the sunshine on the terrace, the lunch, the conversation, and the promise to give our predicament a quiet thought. You mentioned a few names, which, naturally convey magic: the South African gold-mines king; Unilever; I.C.I., etc. A minute slice out of their...

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"BLESS YOU GRATEFULLY AFFECTIONATELY = ADAM"

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"Dear Dame Rebecca I am conducting an enquiry, on behalf of 'ADAM', into a matter of some topical urgency. We are preparing a special number on Tolstoy, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death and are approaching some of the leading English and foreign novelists with a view to collecting a symposium on the following them..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Rebecca, I ought to have written before, but I hoped to have something concrete to say. When I heard from you I rang up Professor Ray, and found that he had already spoken about Adam to the Ford Foundation, who at the moment employ me to help them spend their money. I very much fear, however, that nothing will come of it all, since Adam does not fit easily into either foundation. The awful truth is that poor Grindea has the kiss of death so far as that paper is concerned. He is a dear...

Scope and Contents "Dear Dame Rebecca, In case you might have been wondering about our prolonged silence I should like you to know that we have been through new difficulties, but we do hope to be able to carry on for at least another year or so thus reaching ADAM's thirtieth year of publication. This afternoon while perusing The New Freewoman I was amazed - and delighted - to come across an essay of yours Trees of gold which must have been written when you were still a teenager. As I have reasons to suspect...

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"Dear Dame Rebecca, We are now preparing a special issue on 'The Impact of the October Revolution upon Contemporary Literature and Art', and should be most grateful if you would let us have your views on the subject..."

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"Dear Dame Rebecca, Our next issue will, in addition to the publication in full of the two winning entries in Adam's novel competition, include a world symposium on Georges Simenon. We should be very glad - and grateful - if you could give us your frank opinion on the Belgian protean novelist..."

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"Dear Ms Boston, Thank you for your letter regarding the 400th Jubilee issue of Adam which is to be devoted to the London Library. Unfortunately Dame Rebecca is not well at the moment and unable to answer personally..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Dame Rebecca, I believe Miron Grindea mentioned to you that the 400th Jubilee issue of ADAM will be entirely devoted to the London Library and that you have very kindly promised a piece that could be preface to the other contributors. You recalled for Mr. Grindea a particular episode when you 'pinched' a book on Yugoslavia that you had urgent need of, while the rest of the shelf was destroyed by fire, you had saved a valuable reference book for the Library which you were able to...

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"Sorry to learn that you haven't been feeling too well recently. I do hope you have recovered by now. May I add that I still hope to receive your contribution to our next issue which will be entirely to the London Library..."