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Scope and Contents "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...

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"Dear Sir, I should be glad if you would issue tickets for anything she may wish to Miss Sarah Denny, at 2, Dadogan Lane, S.W.1., to the value of £20, chargeable to my account..."

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"Dear Sir, I would be glad if you would issue tickets for anything he may wish to Mr. Robert Lyons, c/o Mrs. Mary Lyons, at the above address, to the value of £30 pounds, to be chargeable to my account..."

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"Dear Mrs. Andrews, Here are the particulars you asked me to send you. Andjelija Marcetic born on 1st July 1951, daughter of Rastko Marcetic and Kosara Gavrilovic. Jelena (Ellen) Gavrisheff born on 1st June, 1956, daughter of Michael (Misa) Gavrisheff and Darinka Gavrilovic. You will probably think me very rude if I ask you to half Andjelija's share with Aleksa's Daughter Anica or his new daughter Jelena. He would be so glad to think that you have remembered him..."

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"Dear Mrs. Andrews, I have rented a typewriter as I have been doing some translation, and am therefore taking this opportunity of writing to you. For once, since I have come here, you will not have to decipher my writing. I have not been in Washington since Christmas, but I talk with Mother on the telephone at least once a week. They are all well. Father looks and sounds better than he has been for some time..."

Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondence consists of letters exchanged by Rebecca West and colleagues, friends, publishers, and family members. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. A group of letters from unidentified correspondents is placed at the end of the sequence. See also the Name/Title/Subject Index to the Manuscript Notebooks (in the Series II inventory) for a listing of fragments of letters found in the Notebooks; these fragments HAVE NOT been cross-referenced to the first...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondence consists of letters exchanged by Rebecca West and colleagues, friends, publishers, and family members. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. A group of letters from unidentified correspondents is placed at the end of the sequence. See also the Name/Title/Subject Index to the Manuscript Notebooks (in the Series II inventory) for a listing of fragments of letters found in the Notebooks; these fragments HAVE NOT been cross-referenced to the first...

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"Dear Dame Rebecca, I have been given your address by Dr. Suzanne Henig, editor of VIRGINIA WOOLF QUARTERLY. I am a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California medical school and the author of a book on schizophrenia and many articles on psychiatrict subjects. When I was in Washington, I had the opportunity to study Ezra Pound over several years. I am now writing a psychanalytical biography of Virginia Woolf and would very much like to interview you about her..."

Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondence consists of letters exchanged by Rebecca West and colleagues, friends, publishers, and family members. This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. A group of letters from unidentified correspondents is placed at the end of the sequence. See also the Name/Title/Subject Index to the Manuscript Notebooks (in the Series II inventory) for a listing of fragments of letters found in the Notebooks; these fragments HAVE NOT been cross-referenced to the first...

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"Dear Dame Rebecca, It would be very kind if you could autograph your book which I have got as a birthday present for my father on Monday..."