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Letter from Rebecca West, Leigh-on-Sea, to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, between 1917 and 1919 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
458655
Accession number
MA 14887.8
Creator
West, Rebecca, 1892-1983, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.8 x 15.3 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery from: Southcliffe, / Marine Parade, / Leigh-on-Sea.
Rebecca West lived in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex from 1917 to 1919.
Forms one of a group of 13 letters from Rebecca West to Apsley Cherry-Garrard (MA 14887.1-13); each letter cataloged individually.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing that her son Anthony has developed whooping cough and so "Lamer and all other forms of pleasure are denied me, as I must stick down here for six weeks nursing him.", and observing that "Anthony is comparatively well but I am thinking of suicide."