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at The Chantry, Stocklinch in Somerset, thanking her on behalf of his wife Marion (née Pye, 1890-1976, married 1920), for "the beautiful cloth. a lovely thing", and sharing her "tribulation. I didn't know all the roof-thatch had to come down. What a life!" (23rd February 1960), "The Falmouth spring show opens to-morrow so. this is a day of general confloption and crisis. Marion is walking round, wreathed and distracted like Ophelia seeking a watery bier", thanking Mrs Richards "for so kindly agreeing to come down and keep an eye on things", and describing what to expect of the garden, (22nd March 1960), thanking her "for your toothsome gift; and, more than that, for thinking of it", he is "on the road now. but having to take frequent rests", in September they may "loaf around" the St. Ives region if it is "fairly clear of the fiends who now make it hell. before coming back for a winter's work. Happily just before going into hospital I had corrected the proofs of. 'I Met a Lady'." (5th August 1961), "I'm glad you liked the book, and sorry that you worried over its location. The cottage at Trencrom is there all right, but the cottage is. 'a figment of the imagination'. I placed it on the sea coast, south of Helston, and that's all. Usually, for the central scene of a book I like a house I know well. Somehow, that gives the thing reality in my own mind", the "small deer" is "charming" and "is on my study bookshelf. quite at home there", (19th January 1962), with a photo of the writer and his wife and apparently Mrs Richards outside their Georgian home, 4¼" x 3", (1958), the letters 7 sides 8vo, The White Cottage, Fenwick Road, Falmouth, 1960 -. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 56157
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