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NewmanL/A/A2/MacDonald, I/2
Unique identifier
GB 275 NewmanL/A/A2/MacDonald, I/2
Title
ALS to Lyn Newman
Date(s)
- 5 Jan. 1958 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
2 p paper
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Mentions that she spent Christmas with her brother at Chatham house, Stowe School. Asks whether Lyn was referring to her school friends Edith Marcia Gray, and details reasons why they lost contact. Reports that she was teaching English at St Leonard's, St Andrews but the school bored her. Complains that it is too difficult for her to get to Cambridge by train to see Lyn, and Adele Guthrie, the wife of Keith Guthrie. Offers to send Lyn her book on Matthew Arnold "The Buried Self".