Letters of Una Pope-Hennessy [manuscript], 1918, 1945.

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Letters of Una Pope-Hennessy [manuscript], 1918, 1945.

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In a letter, 1928 September 9, Dame Pope-Hennessy thanks Mrs. E. Laurence White for a gift; says that Rosenbach probably knows the purchaser of the Watteaus in the Wallace collection; would like to show her a "thumb" Greek history from which she read to her boys, as well as other family books. She describes a stay in Aix and the postcards there, noting that it was by Lac Berget that her great uncle Alphonse de Lamartine wrote many of his poems. She quotes Keats; adds "not for nothing is Jesus called the very Word of God"; and concludes that she was moved to tears by "John Brown's Body." In a letter, 1945 July 17, to Mrs. Laurence White, Dame Pope-Hennessy writes that she remembers lunching with her; tells of the delay in the publication of her Dickens book, due to "priority printing," "priority binding," and the dock strike, and describes life during the blitz. She then explains that Churchill was defeated by "the longing for a new and more vigorous domestic policy...." noting that "we associate conservatism with paralysis in domestic matters." She concludes with family news.

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