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NewmanL/A/A2/Dent/3
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GB 275 NewmanL/A/A2/Dent/3
Title
ALS to Lyn Newman
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- 29 Jan. 1939 (Creation)
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4 p paper
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Thanks Lyn for her book ['Ten Letter Writers']. Hopes that she will one day write about Edward Fitzgerald. Refers to a garden book of Mrs Francis King with quotations from Walpole's 'Strawberry Hill'. Mentions Dorothy Osborne, Sally Goodrich and her sister Mrs Sinclair in Ireland. Expresses indignation at the Armstrong life of Fanny Kemble which she has not read. Recommends 'A woman rice planter' by Patience Pennington. Gives her opinion of Lady Butler. Refers to the concessions made to Hitler and Mussolini.