Letter from Odette Keun, Grasse, France, to Rebecca West, between 1924 and 1933 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying "Pidoo gave me your letter this morning, & I was so touched that it made me cry," using an asterisk on Pidoo to note "That's H.G." and recounting a month of "an unprecedented tangle of nurses, doctors, lawyers, military blackguards, catastrophic faces"; describing a procedure to prevent an abcess during which doctors "smashed the cheekbone utterly with a chisel and hammer" and saying "this monstrousness will last, my doctors cheerfully tell me, for several weeks more."; feeling "sorrow for Pidoo, who is the only soul in the whole world who can keep me sane"; relaying that she had lost a years-long case, saying "That my letters to Maxwell were sometimes the screams of a fish-wife I quite concede--but what never came out at the trial, were the quite justifiable reasons for which I hold Maxwell responsible for my arrest and deportation"; further describing the circumstances that led to the lawsuit and saying she had "sent him my books" and he had promised to "tell me the truth about my arrest" and saying "now he's got a thousand pounds damages & costs (not counting what 'The Bodley Head' has to give him for my political book on Russia!)"; sharing that "Pidoo is most unsympathetic" but believing he's right and wanting to put it behind her; thanking Rebecca for "the wire and letter."