MANUSCRIPT: Typescript Book Review of Virginia Woolf's "A Haunted House and Other Stories" with an Autograph Letter Signed as "B.G. Glover."
Welty, Eudora. A HAUNTED HOUSE (Typescript). Autograph Letter Signed as B.G. Glover [Diarmuid Russell?]:
Dear Bennett Hobbes -
This was written under the influence of sulfa (bad throat) & I don't think I'll read it over before sending you, sent the book today. In ans. to questions, (1) Sent the Power relative letter -(oh, that was question II!) (1) Ronnie is Ramsey Roberts - (2) Wish A. Rabin had exited in the choo choo puffing (3) Merci (congrats to Mithie - I accept. Photo enclosed.) (4) Lehman’s [Lehaman Engel] address left here on a postcard to you, & is also on the edge of the theme by Worth Bennett, end. (5) Can't think who Floy T.'s husband is. (6) Hate M.G. Eberhart! (7) Keep getting lectures from Codwick on that. (8) Sent you the Mag. Of Art. (9) H. Hell is a Frenchman living in Algiers, editor of Fontaine which is a magazine in French with American writers in translation – some Russian girls seems to be doing my story - (1) Sent the Woolf. Thanks for the Times clipping* - They are hard for me to do, always the deadline at an awful time like now. (11) ansd. (12) Thanks [_]. Your trip sounds full – but a good sign, that you can get such a thing now & then. I love the itinerary! It sounds like a trip by A. Rabin - wrote Hubert [Creekmore] finally & told him you wanted more letters from him to me so I could enclose them - Mawst dresses - Yrs., B.G. Glover.
Lehman Engel was close friend of Welty's from Jackson and one of the "bright, talented young men" who "provided Welty with a stimulating atmosphere in which to write". See Suzanne Marrs, THE WELTY COLLECTION, pp. 150152 for more on the writer's relationship with Lehman Engel and Hubert Creekmore. She put both in touch with Diarmuid Russell.
*Likely Eudora Welty's review of Kroll's WATERS OVER THE DAM which appeared in the NYTBR March 26th.
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