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<p>Nov. 3 1941</p>
<p>Dear J.J. L.:</p>
<p>I was afraid you might</p>
<p>get stuck up north & never come</p>
<p>back— vanish into the ether like way</p>
<p>Mr Frost does. Seriously. I did think</p>
<p>it possible the U. of Maine might</p>
<p>hold you. I remember Mr Coffin threw</p>
<p>out some vague suggestion that there</p>
<p>might be a position there—if it should</p>
<p>tempt you. I realize he was doubtful</p>
<p>whether it would.</p>
<p> Here’s the check for Mrs</p>
<p>Houstan’s copy of the elegy. She & her</p>
<p>husband looked over the volume</p>
<p>I have & were quite carried away</p>
<p>with it. Our guest insisted the</p>
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<p>Nov. 3 1941</p>
<p>Dear J.J. L.:</p>
<p>I was afraid you might</p>
<p>get stuck up north & never come</p>
<p>back— vanish into the ether like way</p>
<p>Mr Frost does. Seriously. I did think</p>
<p>it possible the U. of Maine might</p>
<p>hold you. I remember Mr Coffin threw</p>
<p>out some vague suggestion that there</p>
<p>might be a position there—if it should</p>
<p>tempt you. I realize he was doubtful</p>
<p>whether it would.</p>
<p> Here’s the check for Mrs</p>
<p>Houstan’s copy of the elegy. She & her</p>
<p>husband looked over the volume</p>
<p>I have & were quite carried away</p>
<p>with it. Our guest insisted the</p>
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<p>poem should never have been</p>
<p>Americanized & had a big argument</p>
<p>with Louis in which the obstinate</p>
<p>lady did not yield tho she was</p>
<p>well worsted. The fact that the</p>
<p>entire elegy leads itself to wood</p>
<p>cuts of America scenes shows its</p>
<p>universality & greatly adds to its</p>
<p>interest.</p>
<p> Did I tell you I had a letter</p>
<p>from Mrs Coffin in which she wrote</p>
<p>of your visit & her regret that it was</p>
<p>rather hectic. Mr C gives me the</p>
<p>choice between April 3<sup>rd</sup> or 4<sup>th</sup> for</p>
<p>his lecture here. As they had to leave</p>
<p>for home on the 5<sup>th</sup> of course I</p>
<p>chose the third in order to keep</p>
<p>them for a bit of fun after the</p>
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<p>poem should never have been</p>
<p>Americanized & had a big argument</p>
<p>with Louis in which the obstinate</p>
<p>lady did not yield tho she was</p>
<p>well worsted. The fact that the</p>
<p>entire elegy leads itself to wood</p>
<p>cuts of America scenes shows its</p>
<p>universality & greatly adds to its</p>
<p>interest.</p>
<p> Did I tell you I had a letter</p>
<p>from Mrs Coffin in which she wrote</p>
<p>of your visit & her regret that it was</p>
<p>rather hectic. Mr C gives me the</p>
<p>choice between April 3<sup>rd</sup> or 4<sup>th</sup> for</p>
<p>his lecture here. As they had to leave</p>
<p>for home on the 5<sup>th</sup> of course I</p>
<p>chose the third in order to keep</p>
<p>them for a bit of fun after the</p>
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<p>reading. As evidently, I can’t</p>
<p>lure you hither unless I have a</p>
<p>lion on hand, I don’t count</p>
<p>on you coming before April, but you</p>
<p>must consider yourself engaged</p>
<p>for the Coffins’ visit—eh wat?</p>
<p>And if the spirit moves you to</p>
<p>come to a lionless “Wycherley”</p>
<p>before that, just say the word. We</p>
<p>are going to try to give the old “Kernel”</p>
<p>his commission (pump broken, no</p>
<p>door yet made into new porch).</p>
<p>As the “Malkin” has a waiting list</p>
<p>of friends we don’t want to turn</p>
<p>away.</p>
<p> How I should love to have your</p>
<p>exhibit in my home for a few</p>
<p>days before the show opens. But</p>
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<p>reading. As evidently, I can’t</p>
<p>lure you hither unless I have a</p>
<p>lion on hand, I don’t count</p>
<p>on you coming before April, but you</p>
<p>must consider yourself engaged</p>
<p>for the Coffins’ visit—eh wat?</p>
<p>And if the spirit moves you to</p>
<p>come to a lionless “Wycherley”</p>
<p>before that, just say the word. We</p>
<p>are going to try to give the old “Kernel”</p>
<p>his commission (pump broken, no</p>
<p>door yet made into new porch).</p>
<p>As the “Malkin” has a waiting list</p>
<p>of friends we don’t want to turn</p>
<p>away.</p>
<p> How I should love to have your</p>
<p>exhibit in my home for a few</p>
<p>days before the show opens. But</p>
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<p>Himself is quite definitely against my</p>
<p>taking the responsibility of packing</p>
<p>& unpacking the pictures. I should</p>
<p>use my woman’s prerogatives & insist</p>
<p>if I could give a little private showing</p>
<p>here. That would be so worth while.</p>
<p>But the time is not right. The</p>
<p>people I should want are up to their</p>
<p>ears in getting lined up, publicly &</p>
<p>privately, for the winter No, I</p>
<p>fear I must give up the idea, though I have</p>
<p>been dallying with it quite happily.</p>
<p>Stera Bosa wants to give you</p>
<p>a little party—a supper or some</p>
<p>thing. She always has a small</p>
<p>group & easy, unconditional affairs.</p>
<p>I presume Himself & I w’d be the</p>
<p>only unartistic persons present.</p>
<p>How about it? If you can</p>
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<p>Himself is quite definitely against my</p>
<p>taking the responsibility of packing</p>
<p>& unpacking the pictures. I should</p>
<p>use my woman’s prerogatives & insist</p>
<p>if I could give a little private showing</p>
<p>here. That would be so worth while.</p>
<p>But the time is not right. The</p>
<p>people I should want are up to their</p>
<p>ears in getting lined up, publicly &</p>
<p>privately, for the winter No, I</p>
<p>fear I must give up the idea, though I have</p>
<p>been dallying with it quite happily.</p>
<p>Stera Bosa wants to give you</p>
<p>a little party—a supper or some</p>
<p>thing. She always has a small</p>
<p>group & easy, unconditional affairs.</p>
<p>I presume Himself & I w’d be the</p>
<p>only unartistic persons present.</p>
<p>How about it? If you can</p>
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<p>forget that lion ? we</p>
<p>could drive you down here after</p>
<p>the gathering. I believe, apart</p>
<p>from its being fun, it would stimulate</p>
<p>interest in your exhibit. Say</p>
<p>when.</p>
<p> Also how about suppling a</p>
<p>bunch of elegy folders to be left at</p>
<p>the door of the art room?</p>
<p> I got two poems out of that</p>
<p>Lawrence article. It set me</p>
<p>a brooding & there same a sonnet</p>
<p>& a lyric. By the way, did I</p>
<p>ever give you a copy of my</p>
<p>“Spider Articles?”</p>
<p> Yours</p>
<p> Mary L.</p>
<p>The “naughty man” sends regards. We</p>
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<p>forget that lion ? we</p>
<p>could drive you down here after</p>
<p>the gathering. I believe, apart</p>
<p>from its being fun, it would stimulate</p>
<p>interest in your exhibit. Say</p>
<p>when.</p>
<p> Also how about suppling a</p>
<p>bunch of elegy folders to be left at</p>
<p>the door of the art room?</p>
<p> I got two poems out of that</p>
<p>Lawrence article. It set me</p>
<p>a brooding & there same a sonnet</p>
<p>& a lyric. By the way, did I</p>
<p>ever give you a copy of my</p>
<p>“Spider Articles?”</p>
<p> Yours</p>
<p> Mary L.</p>
<p>The “naughty man” sends regards. We</p>
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<p>are expecting Oliver Fogarty this</p>
<p>week, but he may not come. He is</p>
<p>unpredictable.</p>
<p> I shall take my guests—four</p>
<p>of them from Richmond from the</p>
<p>11<sup>th</sup> to about the 16<sup>th</sup>—to see</p>
<p>your exhibit. My copy of the</p>
<p>elegy finally came back. It shall</p>
<p>not be borrowed again.</p>
<p> If we have that Stera Bosa</p>
<p>party, I’ll ask her to write Mr</p>
<p>Mahley. A friend of mine is</p>
<p>bringing him out here soon for an</p>
<p>evening with beer mugs & an open</p>
<p>fire.</p>
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<p>are expecting Oliver Fogarty this</p>
<p>week, but he may not come. He is</p>
<p>unpredictable.</p>
<p> I shall take my guests—four</p>
<p>of them from Richmond from the</p>
<p>11<sup>th</sup> to about the 16<sup>th</sup>—to see</p>
<p>your exhibit. My copy of the</p>
<p>elegy finally came back. It shall</p>
<p>not be borrowed again.</p>
<p> If we have that Stera Bosa</p>
<p>party, I’ll ask her to write Mr</p>
<p>Mahley. A friend of mine is</p>
<p>bringing him out here soon for an</p>
<p>evening with beer mugs & an open</p>
<p>fire.</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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1932-1950
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<p>April 1, 1950</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>This is more for</p>
<p>Mrs Sherman than for you—</p>
<p>this poem. You don’t care for</p>
<p>poetry, I know, but I hope</p>
<p>she will like my little tribute to</p>
<p>our friend & that you will read</p>
<p>it for the sake of what I believe</p>
<p>is the truth about him.</p>
<p>I had a most touching</p>
<p>letter from Alice Jaffe—a truly</p>
<p>amazing letter. I realize we</p>
<p>have merged her & that. She</p>
<p>is just uninhibited. I’ll show</p>
<p>you some time the note that</p>
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<p>April 1, 1950</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>This is more for</p>
<p>Mrs Sherman than for you—</p>
<p>this poem. You don’t care for</p>
<p>poetry, I know, but I hope</p>
<p>she will like my little tribute to</p>
<p>our friend & that you will read</p>
<p>it for the sake of what I believe</p>
<p>is the truth about him.</p>
<p>I had a most touching</p>
<p>letter from Alice Jaffe—a truly</p>
<p>amazing letter. I realize we</p>
<p>have merged her & that. She</p>
<p>is just uninhibited. I’ll show</p>
<p>you some time the note that</p>
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<p>reveals her as possessed of</p>
<p>far more tenderness & depth</p>
<p>of feeling than we gave her</p>
<p>credit for.</p>
<p>Jack had a bad fall & is</p>
<p>all plastered up but is better</p>
<p>& out drawing today.</p>
<p>As ever,</p>
<p>Mary</p>
<p>The poem has brought me lots</p>
<p>of response. He was so</p>
<p>beloved!</p>
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<p>reveals her as possessed of</p>
<p>far more tenderness & depth</p>
<p>of feeling than we gave her</p>
<p>credit for.</p>
<p>Jack had a bad fall & is</p>
<p>all plastered up but is better</p>
<p>& out drawing today.</p>
<p>As ever,</p>
<p>Mary</p>
<p>The poem has brought me lots</p>
<p>of response. He was so</p>
<p>beloved!</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, April 1, 1950 (Ms2017-001)
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1951-02-21
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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1932-1950
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Poem written by Leitch on the occasion of Louis I. Jaffe's death in 1950 (enclosed with April 1, 1950 correspondence) (Ms2017-001)
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1950
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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1932-1950
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_B1F10_LankesDinnerAnnouncement_1941_0331
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Newspaper clipping announcing Leitch dinner for J. J. Lankes, March 31, 1940 (enclosed with April 1, 1950 correspondence) (Ms2017-001)
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1941-03-31
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 10
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<p>Feb 21 1950</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J</p>
<p>Under a pile of unanswered</p>
<p>mail has turned up a perfectly</p>
<p>charming woodcut which must</p>
<p>be yours. It is a picture of a</p>
<p>number—six to be exact—hay</p>
<p>stacks snow covered beside an</p>
<p>old farm house whose rood is also</p>
<p>blanketed in snow. There is a</p>
<p>beautiful peaceful simplicity</p>
<p>about the scene. I don’t know</p>
<p>where it came from, but if</p>
<p>from you—I mean if you sent it</p>
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<p>Feb 21 1950</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J</p>
<p>Under a pile of unanswered</p>
<p>mail has turned up a perfectly</p>
<p>charming woodcut which must</p>
<p>be yours. It is a picture of a</p>
<p>number—six to be exact—hay</p>
<p>stacks snow covered beside an</p>
<p>old farm house whose rood is also</p>
<p>blanketed in snow. There is a</p>
<p>beautiful peaceful simplicity</p>
<p>about the scene. I don’t know</p>
<p>where it came from, but if</p>
<p>from you—I mean if you sent it</p>
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<p>I am very grateful.</p>
<p>While Jack was out in the</p>
<p>Pacific theatre of the war your book</p>
<p>plate went astray. He has had a</p>
<p>copy struck off from the—what</p>
<p>are they called—paper plates. Of course</p>
<p>it’s not as good as the original. You</p>
<p>would say, no doubt, that it’s not</p>
<p>good at all, but a language can’t</p>
<p>tell too much difference. He has</p>
<p>turned all his gear inside out &</p>
<p>upside down hunting for that</p>
<p>plate & he’s so glad to have any</p>
<p>sort of substitute.</p>
<p>I had a few personal lines</p>
<p>from Mr Frost written on his</p>
<p>little Christmas poem—a rare</p>
<p>favor from him. He must have</p>
<p>decided that I’m not one to tell</p>
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<p>I am very grateful.</p>
<p>While Jack was out in the</p>
<p>Pacific theatre of the war your book</p>
<p>plate went astray. He has had a</p>
<p>copy struck off from the—what</p>
<p>are they called—paper plates. Of course</p>
<p>it’s not as good as the original. You</p>
<p>would say, no doubt, that it’s not</p>
<p>good at all, but a language can’t</p>
<p>tell too much difference. He has</p>
<p>turned all his gear inside out &</p>
<p>upside down hunting for that</p>
<p>plate & he’s so glad to have any</p>
<p>sort of substitute.</p>
<p>I had a few personal lines</p>
<p>from Mr Frost written on his</p>
<p>little Christmas poem—a rare</p>
<p>favor from him. He must have</p>
<p>decided that I’m not one to tell</p>
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<p>his signature! Isn’t the poem</p>
<p>true Frost—subtle & exquisite.</p>
<p>Lincoln MacVeagh has been written</p>
<p>me recently & spoke of cherishing</p>
<p>some work he has of yours. He</p>
<p>is lonely in Lisbon & speaks touchingly</p>
<p>of my sister. The two were in-</p>
<p>separable. She was a dear.</p>
<p>I shall have a picture of her in</p>
<p>my memories—a lovely of her</p>
<p>as a teenager.</p>
<p>All good wishes & here’s hoping</p>
<p>this woodcut was done recently</p>
<p>and that you’re “at it” again.</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>Himself is fine</p>
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<p>his signature! Isn’t the poem</p>
<p>true Frost—subtle & exquisite.</p>
<p>Lincoln MacVeagh has been written</p>
<p>me recently & spoke of cherishing</p>
<p>some work he has of yours. He</p>
<p>is lonely in Lisbon & speaks touchingly</p>
<p>of my sister. The two were in-</p>
<p>separable. She was a dear.</p>
<p>I shall have a picture of her in</p>
<p>my memories—a lovely of her</p>
<p>as a teenager.</p>
<p>All good wishes & here’s hoping</p>
<p>this woodcut was done recently</p>
<p>and that you’re “at it” again.</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>Himself is fine</p>
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<p>Your Christmas card is always</p>
<p>a real joy!</p>
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<p>Your Christmas card is always</p>
<p>a real joy!</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
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1932-1950
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_B1F10_LeitchtoLankes_1950_0221
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, February 21, 1950 (Ms2017-001)
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1950-05-01
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Letters
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 10
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1979
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<p>Oct 16 [1948 or 1949]</p>
<p> Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>I was in luck to get</p>
<p>that last book for Mrs Cresse.</p>
<p>Will you send her your</p>
<p>bill! I think you said the</p>
<p>price was $6.00 but I’m not</p>
<p>sure. If you prefer, tell me,</p>
<p>if it’s right—or wrong-- & I’ll</p>
<p>let her know so she can</p>
<p>mail you a check.</p>
<p>This morning I’ve read</p>
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<p>Oct 16 [1948 or 1949]</p>
<p> Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>I was in luck to get</p>
<p>that last book for Mrs Cresse.</p>
<p>Will you send her your</p>
<p>bill! I think you said the</p>
<p>price was $6.00 but I’m not</p>
<p>sure. If you prefer, tell me,</p>
<p>if it’s right—or wrong-- & I’ll</p>
<p>let her know so she can</p>
<p>mail you a check.</p>
<p>This morning I’ve read</p>
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<p>over “Himself and I” & it’s</p>
<p>almost done. I’ve enjoyed</p>
<p>writing it but I love best to</p>
<p>verify.</p>
<p>Yes, I to wish you could</p>
<p>be all artists & nothing else.</p>
<p>As ever,</p>
<p>Mary L.</p>
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<p>over “Himself and I” & it’s</p>
<p>almost done. I’ve enjoyed</p>
<p>writing it but I love best to</p>
<p>verify.</p>
<p>Yes, I to wish you could</p>
<p>be all artists & nothing else.</p>
<p>As ever,</p>
<p>Mary L.</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
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1932-1950
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English
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_B1F9_LeitchtoLankes_1949_1016
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, October 16, 1949 (Ms2017-001)
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1949-10-16
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Letters
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 9
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1979
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<p>331 Lafayette Ave</p>
<p>Hawthorne N.J.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>October 11<sup>th</sup>, 1948</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Mrs Leitch—</p>
<p>I was certainly happy</p>
<p>to get Mr Lankes book—I called</p>
<p>everyone I knew who has seen</p>
<p>some of his work to tell them I had</p>
<p>it—Did you know his “House</p>
<p>in Wmsburg” cut is in a collection</p>
<p>of wood cuts of the year published</p>
<p>in England—I have written to</p>
<p>Mr Lankes to thank him for sending</p>
<p>it but I am a little confused as</p>
<p>he sent me no bill and I’m wonder-</p>
<p>ing—could he have sent it to you—</p>
<p>I will send either of you a check</p>
<p>if you know or could find out the</p>
<p>amount—Thank you so much</p>
<p>for ordering it for me</p>
<p>I knew Mr Lankes must be</p>
<p>working else where as I used to</p>
<p>see an advertisement for asst.</p>
<p>artists wanted at Langley field</p>
<p>listed under his name—It is</p>
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<p>331 Lafayette Ave</p>
<p>Hawthorne N.J.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>October 11<sup>th</sup>, 1948</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Mrs Leitch—</p>
<p>I was certainly happy</p>
<p>to get Mr Lankes book—I called</p>
<p>everyone I knew who has seen</p>
<p>some of his work to tell them I had</p>
<p>it—Did you know his “House</p>
<p>in Wmsburg” cut is in a collection</p>
<p>of wood cuts of the year published</p>
<p>in England—I have written to</p>
<p>Mr Lankes to thank him for sending</p>
<p>it but I am a little confused as</p>
<p>he sent me no bill and I’m wonder-</p>
<p>ing—could he have sent it to you—</p>
<p>I will send either of you a check</p>
<p>if you know or could find out the</p>
<p>amount—Thank you so much</p>
<p>for ordering it for me</p>
<p>I knew Mr Lankes must be</p>
<p>working else where as I used to</p>
<p>see an advertisement for asst.</p>
<p>artists wanted at Langley field</p>
<p>listed under his name—It is</p>
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<p>a pity that he can not devote himself</p>
<p>to art and I wonder that he is not it</p>
<p>great demand as an illustrator—</p>
<p>I’ve gone through as many books of</p>
<p>woodcuts and engravings and they’re</p>
<p>aren’t many if any who can top him—</p>
<p>There are some whose style is different</p>
<p>who many equal him but I would</p>
<p>think he deserves a place along with</p>
<p>the best—Of course there’s a great</p>
<p>limit of well illustrated books and</p>
<p>the more is the pity.</p>
<p>We have been back from the</p>
<p>lake since the first week in Sept.</p>
<p>and I hope I’m putting on the</p>
<p>finishing touches to settling “in”</p>
<p>at home—I seem to alternate</p>
<p>between furiously keeping house</p>
<p>and furiously painting or wood</p>
<p>engraving. I started another friend</p>
<p>painting and I’m exchanging for</p>
<p>a few hours advice while we</p>
<p>were out together she gave me</p>
<p>[rest of the letter is missing]</p>
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<p>a pity that he can not devote himself</p>
<p>to art and I wonder that he is not it</p>
<p>great demand as an illustrator—</p>
<p>I’ve gone through as many books of</p>
<p>woodcuts and engravings and they’re</p>
<p>aren’t many if any who can top him—</p>
<p>There are some whose style is different</p>
<p>who many equal him but I would</p>
<p>think he deserves a place along with</p>
<p>the best—Of course there’s a great</p>
<p>limit of well illustrated books and</p>
<p>the more is the pity.</p>
<p>We have been back from the</p>
<p>lake since the first week in Sept.</p>
<p>and I hope I’m putting on the</p>
<p>finishing touches to settling “in”</p>
<p>at home—I seem to alternate</p>
<p>between furiously keeping house</p>
<p>and furiously painting or wood</p>
<p>engraving. I started another friend</p>
<p>painting and I’m exchanging for</p>
<p>a few hours advice while we</p>
<p>were out together she gave me</p>
<p>[rest of the letter is missing]</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
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1932-1950
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English
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_B1F8_LtrtoLeitch_1948_1011
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Partial Letter to Mary Sinton Leitch, October 11, 1948 (Ms2017-001)
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1948-10-11
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Letters
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 8
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<p>I can’t answer. My broken wrist is acting up.</p>
<p>I have to use my left hand and it won’t do what</p>
<p>I want it to.</p>
<p>Just want to thank you for your letter and to</p>
<p>say I hope you ddn’t spell Lincoln’s name over the</p>
<p>radio as you did in your not to me. It is</p>
<p>Macveagh.</p>
<p>Do you see in “Time” that it had been recommended</p>
<p>that Griswold be removed and all authority be</p>
<p>places in the hands of the one man eg. Lincoln?</p>
<p>Quite a triumph for him.</p>
<p>Yours</p>
<p>M</p>
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<p>I can’t answer. My broken wrist is acting up.</p>
<p>I have to use my left hand and it won’t do what</p>
<p>I want it to.</p>
<p>Just want to thank you for your letter and to</p>
<p>say I hope you ddn’t spell Lincoln’s name over the</p>
<p>radio as you did in your not to me. It is</p>
<p>Macveagh.</p>
<p>Do you see in “Time” that it had been recommended</p>
<p>that Griswold be removed and all authority be</p>
<p>places in the hands of the one man eg. Lincoln?</p>
<p>Quite a triumph for him.</p>
<p>Yours</p>
<p>M</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
Description
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
Date
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1932-1950
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English
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_B1F7_LeitchtoLankes_1947_1121
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Postcard, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, November 21, 1947 (Ms2017-001)
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1947-11-21
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Letters
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 7
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1977
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">See the finding aid for Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes</a>
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<p>Lynnhaven</p>
<p>Nov 15 1947</p>
<p> </p>
<p>J.J. Lankes</p>
<p>130 Villa Road</p>
<p>Hilton Village</p>
<p>Va.</p>
<p><br /> Dear, dear, dear!</p>
<p>Your card came the</p>
<p>day after the ?</p>
<p>I know why you were to</p>
<p>answer questions about</p>
<p>yourself—but I won’t</p>
<p>tell, for fear of turning</p>
<p>yr head. J & I are</p>
<p>both sorry we missed</p>
<p>the “show.”</p>
<p>M.S.L.</p>
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<p>Lynnhaven</p>
<p>Nov 15 1947</p>
<p> </p>
<p>J.J. Lankes</p>
<p>130 Villa Road</p>
<p>Hilton Village</p>
<p>Va.</p>
<p><br /> Dear, dear, dear!</p>
<p>Your card came the</p>
<p>day after the ?</p>
<p>I know why you were to</p>
<p>answer questions about</p>
<p>yourself—but I won’t</p>
<p>tell, for fear of turning</p>
<p>yr head. J & I are</p>
<p>both sorry we missed</p>
<p>the “show.”</p>
<p>M.S.L.</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
Date
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1932-1950
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English
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_B1F7_LeitchtoLankes_1947_1115
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Postcard, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, November 15, 1947 (Ms2017-001)
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1947-11-15
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Letters
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 7
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1976
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">See the finding aid for Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes</a>
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<p>Apr. 15 1947</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>The enclosed (which</p>
<p>do not return) tells its own</p>
<p>sad tale. You may know this</p>
<p>story already but I want to be</p>
<p>sure, for you will wish to</p>
<p>write to Bob! Poor fellow!</p>
<p>I hope he will still feel he can</p>
<p>come here in May.</p>
<p>He’s to read in W’msburg</p>
<p>May 10<sup>th</sup> & will stay with</p>
<p>us—how long I don’t know.</p>
<p>Can’t you go up to see him?</p>
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<p>Apr. 15 1947</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>The enclosed (which</p>
<p>do not return) tells its own</p>
<p>sad tale. You may know this</p>
<p>story already but I want to be</p>
<p>sure, for you will wish to</p>
<p>write to Bob! Poor fellow!</p>
<p>I hope he will still feel he can</p>
<p>come here in May.</p>
<p>He’s to read in W’msburg</p>
<p>May 10<sup>th</sup> & will stay with</p>
<p>us—how long I don’t know.</p>
<p>Can’t you go up to see him?</p>
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<p>Ruth seemed so full of vigor</p>
<p>& energy. It is strange that</p>
<p>she was stricken with such</p>
<p>apathy & indifference to life.</p>
<p>The enclosure is not from</p>
<p>my sister: it’s from a cousin</p>
<p>who married young Lincoln’s</p>
<p>Uncle.</p>
<p>In great haste (supper</p>
<p>time & I’m the cook)</p>
<p>As ever</p>
<p>Mary L</p>
<p>I soaked these envelopes to</p>
<p>un-stick them. Seats thrift!</p>
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<p>Ruth seemed so full of vigor</p>
<p>& energy. It is strange that</p>
<p>she was stricken with such</p>
<p>apathy & indifference to life.</p>
<p>The enclosure is not from</p>
<p>my sister: it’s from a cousin</p>
<p>who married young Lincoln’s</p>
<p>Uncle.</p>
<p>In great haste (supper</p>
<p>time & I’m the cook)</p>
<p>As ever</p>
<p>Mary L</p>
<p>I soaked these envelopes to</p>
<p>un-stick them. Seats thrift!</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
Subject
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
Description
An account of the resource
The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
Creator
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
Date
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1932-1950
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<a href="https://omeka.lib.vt.edu/files/thumbnails/spec_forms/PubPermission.doc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Permission to publish material from the<span> Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes</span><span> </span>must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a>
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English
Type
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, Ms2017-001, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_B1F7_LeitchtoLankes_1947_0415
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, April 15, 1947 (Ms2017-001)
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1947-04-15
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Letters
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 7
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1975
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<p>Mar 5 1947</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Bob Coffin writes that he</p>
<p>will visit “Wycherly” & read at Williamsburg</p>
<p>the 2nd Sat in May. So he lived</p>
<p>up to attend that meeting!</p>
<p>Tut tut! I can’t believe</p>
<p>Mrs Mahler is sneaky unless she were</p>
<p>caught in flagrante delicto! She seems</p>
<p>so open & aboveboard I just can’t</p>
<p>believe she snoops among private documents.</p>
<p>I wonder why you suspect her of such</p>
<p>a naughty habit.</p>
<p>Yes, one can be damned with</p>
<p>much praise as easily—more so</p>
<p>perhaps—than when the praise is</p>
<p>faint. However much you may deserve</p>
<p>such ? I know exactly</p>
<p>how you feel. I often wish one friend</p>
<p>would cease telling people that I am</p>
<p>a rival of Shakespeare & Milton.</p>
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<p>Mar 5 1947</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Bob Coffin writes that he</p>
<p>will visit “Wycherly” & read at Williamsburg</p>
<p>the 2nd Sat in May. So he lived</p>
<p>up to attend that meeting!</p>
<p>Tut tut! I can’t believe</p>
<p>Mrs Mahler is sneaky unless she were</p>
<p>caught in flagrante delicto! She seems</p>
<p>so open & aboveboard I just can’t</p>
<p>believe she snoops among private documents.</p>
<p>I wonder why you suspect her of such</p>
<p>a naughty habit.</p>
<p>Yes, one can be damned with</p>
<p>much praise as easily—more so</p>
<p>perhaps—than when the praise is</p>
<p>faint. However much you may deserve</p>
<p>such ? I know exactly</p>
<p>how you feel. I often wish one friend</p>
<p>would cease telling people that I am</p>
<p>a rival of Shakespeare & Milton.</p>
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<p>He only makes a fool of me & sets</p>
<p>people against me.</p>
<p>There’s no doubt that his admiration of</p>
<p>your work is deeply sincere. That is</p>
<p>something anyway!</p>
<p>I wired something on Friday asking</p>
<p>when he arrives & when he leaves. I</p>
<p>can’t make any plans till I know & friends</p>
<p>are clamoring to entertain him. The</p>
<p>answer came on Mon & was from Mrs</p>
<p>Carl “lecturing in the west</p>
<p>& left no forwarding address”</p>
<p>His agent made all the arrangements</p>
<p>& clinched the ? So I suppose</p>
<p>the lion will turn up. But I’m powerful</p>
<p>jittery. There will be a big crowd to hear</p>
<p>him & if he doesn’t turn up??</p>
<p>We got to get out of this co-presidency. It</p>
<p>will be the dead of me. Poets are such</p>
<p>D--- D--- critters to deal with. But</p>
<p>not Sir Tristrain. He’s all right. The</p>
<p>reason I asked him again is that the</p>
<p>Soc. has grown—has doubled in size since he read here. Also</p>
<p>I’m wishing he will be heard by heaps</p>
<p>of folk who couldn’t come to Norfolk,</p>
<p>from Richmond, Hampton, Newport News et al.</p>
<p>Yours</p>
<p>Mary L</p>
<p>Your letter has been</p>
<p>destructively destroyed</p>
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<p>He only makes a fool of me & sets</p>
<p>people against me.</p>
<p>There’s no doubt that his admiration of</p>
<p>your work is deeply sincere. That is</p>
<p>something anyway!</p>
<p>I wired something on Friday asking</p>
<p>when he arrives & when he leaves. I</p>
<p>can’t make any plans till I know & friends</p>
<p>are clamoring to entertain him. The</p>
<p>answer came on Mon & was from Mrs</p>
<p>Carl “lecturing in the west</p>
<p>& left no forwarding address”</p>
<p>His agent made all the arrangements</p>
<p>& clinched the ? So I suppose</p>
<p>the lion will turn up. But I’m powerful</p>
<p>jittery. There will be a big crowd to hear</p>
<p>him & if he doesn’t turn up??</p>
<p>We got to get out of this co-presidency. It</p>
<p>will be the dead of me. Poets are such</p>
<p>D--- D--- critters to deal with. But</p>
<p>not Sir Tristrain. He’s all right. The</p>
<p>reason I asked him again is that the</p>
<p>Soc. has grown—has doubled in size since he read here. Also</p>
<p>I’m wishing he will be heard by heaps</p>
<p>of folk who couldn’t come to Norfolk,</p>
<p>from Richmond, Hampton, Newport News et al.</p>
<p>Yours</p>
<p>Mary L</p>
<p>Your letter has been</p>
<p>destructively destroyed</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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1932-1950
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, March 5, 1947 (Ms2017-001)
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1947-03-05
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<p>July 23 1945</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>I have been exhibiting Jack’s</p>
<p>book-plate to all callers & everybody</p>
<p>is charmed with it. I like to think</p>
<p>that I am giving Jack something he</p>
<p>will enjoy & value all his life.</p>
<p>I enclose my check</p>
<p>here with. I wish you could devote</p>
<p>all your energies to creative work</p>
<p>such as this little boat, but I pre-</p>
<p>sume the result would be very</p>
<p>similar to what would happen to me</p>
<p>if I tried to live on the fruits of</p>
<p>my poetrying.</p>
<p>Hans came down yesterday</p>
<p>& report a raise & promotion</p>
<p>to membership of a large part</p>
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<p>July 23 1945</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>I have been exhibiting Jack’s</p>
<p>book-plate to all callers & everybody</p>
<p>is charmed with it. I like to think</p>
<p>that I am giving Jack something he</p>
<p>will enjoy & value all his life.</p>
<p>I enclose my check</p>
<p>here with. I wish you could devote</p>
<p>all your energies to creative work</p>
<p>such as this little boat, but I pre-</p>
<p>sume the result would be very</p>
<p>similar to what would happen to me</p>
<p>if I tried to live on the fruits of</p>
<p>my poetrying.</p>
<p>Hans came down yesterday</p>
<p>& report a raise & promotion</p>
<p>to membership of a large part</p>
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<p>of the Sears ground floor. So his</p>
<p>waggon tho’ hitched to a star con-</p>
<p>tinues to rumble along loaded</p>
<p>with men’s work pants! We</p>
<p>drove him to call on a country</p>
<p>neighbor, [Thukey?], he wd enjoy a trip</p>
<p>through the green fields & woods. But</p>
<p>he was so horribly bored by the call</p>
<p>itself that he sat & said not a</p>
<p>single word. He has your capacity</p>
<p>for miserable silences. By</p>
<p>the way the neighbor we sent to</p>
<p>see was Mr Thrasher. He’s trying</p>
<p>to search out some ways of speanding</p>
<p>the dollars that will roll in & has made</p>
<p>an offer—of I believe, $100,100—</p>
<p>for a large part of the Throughgood</p>
<p>(one “g?”) property still out of his</p>
<p>hands. We spoke of your prospective</p>
<p>wood-cute & he expects you to</p>
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<p>of the Sears ground floor. So his</p>
<p>waggon tho’ hitched to a star con-</p>
<p>tinues to rumble along loaded</p>
<p>with men’s work pants! We</p>
<p>drove him to call on a country</p>
<p>neighbor, [Thukey?], he wd enjoy a trip</p>
<p>through the green fields & woods. But</p>
<p>he was so horribly bored by the call</p>
<p>itself that he sat & said not a</p>
<p>single word. He has your capacity</p>
<p>for miserable silences. By</p>
<p>the way the neighbor we sent to</p>
<p>see was Mr Thrasher. He’s trying</p>
<p>to search out some ways of speanding</p>
<p>the dollars that will roll in & has made</p>
<p>an offer—of I believe, $100,100—</p>
<p>for a large part of the Throughgood</p>
<p>(one “g?”) property still out of his</p>
<p>hands. We spoke of your prospective</p>
<p>wood-cute & he expects you to</p>
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<p>do it but says the time isn’t</p>
<p>quite ripe for it, as the place is</p>
<p>still in confusion. When the house</p>
<p>is ready I hope you will be versed</p>
<p>to make the cut. I think it would</p>
<p>be popular in this section of prop-</p>
<p>erty advertised (which it would</p>
<p>be if you have anything to do with</p>
<p>the matter).</p>
<p>Yes, I think it’s a good idea</p>
<p>to ask Mr Wood to make a</p>
<p>compile of hundred impressions</p>
<p>of the plate. Jack’s birthday’s not</p>
<p>til Sept. 30<sup>th</sup> & he’s in Honolulu,</p>
<p>so we’ve plenty of time.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen Louis for a</p>
<p>dog’s age. I fear he is much</p>
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<p>do it but says the time isn’t</p>
<p>quite ripe for it, as the place is</p>
<p>still in confusion. When the house</p>
<p>is ready I hope you will be versed</p>
<p>to make the cut. I think it would</p>
<p>be popular in this section of prop-</p>
<p>erty advertised (which it would</p>
<p>be if you have anything to do with</p>
<p>the matter).</p>
<p>Yes, I think it’s a good idea</p>
<p>to ask Mr Wood to make a</p>
<p>compile of hundred impressions</p>
<p>of the plate. Jack’s birthday’s not</p>
<p>til Sept. 30<sup>th</sup> & he’s in Honolulu,</p>
<p>so we’ve plenty of time.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen Louis for a</p>
<p>dog’s age. I fear he is much</p>
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<p>broken in health.</p>
<p>Ruth Coffin is in bad shape</p>
<p>with a mysterious creeping par-</p>
<p>alysis. I understand that Bob</p>
<p>is desperately anxious about her.</p>
<p>I have no news of her, however,</p>
<p>for a fortnight or so, & she may</p>
<p>be better. Diagnosis has seemed</p>
<p>very difficult.</p>
<p>I hope you will find the</p>
<p>little house soon & start your</p>
<p>New venture independent of</p>
<p>“boogy” Caudladees. How about</p>
<p>buying a gov. hat.</p>
<p>Ever cordially,</p>
<p>May Leitch</p>
<p>Himself is building a cottage for postwar</p>
<p>servants (if any).</p>
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<p>broken in health.</p>
<p>Ruth Coffin is in bad shape</p>
<p>with a mysterious creeping par-</p>
<p>alysis. I understand that Bob</p>
<p>is desperately anxious about her.</p>
<p>I have no news of her, however,</p>
<p>for a fortnight or so, & she may</p>
<p>be better. Diagnosis has seemed</p>
<p>very difficult.</p>
<p>I hope you will find the</p>
<p>little house soon & start your</p>
<p>New venture independent of</p>
<p>“boogy” Caudladees. How about</p>
<p>buying a gov. hat.</p>
<p>Ever cordially,</p>
<p>May Leitch</p>
<p>Himself is building a cottage for postwar</p>
<p>servants (if any).</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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1932-1950
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English
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, July 23, 1945 (Ms2017-001)
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1945-07-23
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 6
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1973
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<p>July 17 1945</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>I think the cut has totle</p>
<p>charm & style, also it is most</p>
<p>appropriate.</p>
<p>I thought I’d not send</p>
<p>out the plate to Jack but would</p>
<p>have a few dozen struck off &</p>
<p>mail those to him sa’s to run</p>
<p>no risks. Which would be best?</p>
<p>I knew he will be greatly pleased</p>
<p>to have the plate. He has recently</p>
<p>become much more of a</p>
<p>reader than he used to be &</p>
<p>is much interested in accumulating</p>
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<p>July 17 1945</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>I think the cut has totle</p>
<p>charm & style, also it is most</p>
<p>appropriate.</p>
<p>I thought I’d not send</p>
<p>out the plate to Jack but would</p>
<p>have a few dozen struck off &</p>
<p>mail those to him sa’s to run</p>
<p>no risks. Which would be best?</p>
<p>I knew he will be greatly pleased</p>
<p>to have the plate. He has recently</p>
<p>become much more of a</p>
<p>reader than he used to be &</p>
<p>is much interested in accumulating</p>
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<p>a library. So the gift will be es-</p>
<p>pecially timely.</p>
<p>I’ve been pretty completely tossed</p>
<p>over by a continuation of heat &</p>
<p>company. During that awful heat</p>
<p>spell we had a British Officer here</p>
<p>with his wife & baby with the result</p>
<p>that there was a lot going on at a</p>
<p>time when one c’d barely stagger</p>
<p>thro’ the mere mechanics of being</p>
<p>without a collapse. I have had</p>
<p>to put Hans off & everybody else,</p>
<p>for that matter, & gave myself</p>
<p>over to an unsplendid isolation.</p>
<p>I enclose Mr Woods letter</p>
<p>to give you the news of his recent</p>
<p>successes. He sent me several</p>
<p>poems, two of which are quite</p>
<p>good. He needs only to be</p>
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<p>a library. So the gift will be es-</p>
<p>pecially timely.</p>
<p>I’ve been pretty completely tossed</p>
<p>over by a continuation of heat &</p>
<p>company. During that awful heat</p>
<p>spell we had a British Officer here</p>
<p>with his wife & baby with the result</p>
<p>that there was a lot going on at a</p>
<p>time when one c’d barely stagger</p>
<p>thro’ the mere mechanics of being</p>
<p>without a collapse. I have had</p>
<p>to put Hans off & everybody else,</p>
<p>for that matter, & gave myself</p>
<p>over to an unsplendid isolation.</p>
<p>I enclose Mr Woods letter</p>
<p>to give you the news of his recent</p>
<p>successes. He sent me several</p>
<p>poems, two of which are quite</p>
<p>good. He needs only to be</p>
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<p>convinced that improvement in</p>
<p>artistry will not be fatal to his</p>
<p>simple style! Apparently he keeps</p>
<p>on believing that if his technique</p>
<p>becomes really expert he will lose</p>
<p>his appeal. What a nice person</p>
<p>he is! He has fine feelings & is sen-</p>
<p>sitive to beauty both in nature &</p>
<p>life. I do like him</p>
<p>I had a letter today from a</p>
<p>leading poets, evaluting Robert Frost’s</p>
<p>fall from grace in writing Job.</p>
<p>I haven’t read it yet. Have you?</p>
<p>I hope you still intend to</p>
<p>“do” the Adam Throughgood house.</p>
<p>Mr Thraser brought us on Sunday</p>
<p>the most superb gladiolas I’ve</p>
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<p>convinced that improvement in</p>
<p>artistry will not be fatal to his</p>
<p>simple style! Apparently he keeps</p>
<p>on believing that if his technique</p>
<p>becomes really expert he will lose</p>
<p>his appeal. What a nice person</p>
<p>he is! He has fine feelings & is sen-</p>
<p>sitive to beauty both in nature &</p>
<p>life. I do like him</p>
<p>I had a letter today from a</p>
<p>leading poets, evaluting Robert Frost’s</p>
<p>fall from grace in writing Job.</p>
<p>I haven’t read it yet. Have you?</p>
<p>I hope you still intend to</p>
<p>“do” the Adam Throughgood house.</p>
<p>Mr Thraser brought us on Sunday</p>
<p>the most superb gladiolas I’ve</p>
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<p>ever seen. I cdn’t appear to</p>
<p>receive them as the weekend</p>
<p>was one of my bad times of being</p>
<p>too tired to move.</p>
<p>The more I look at Jack’s</p>
<p>boat & the river, the better pleased</p>
<p>I am with the book-plate. I love</p>
<p>the clored effect behind the sail.</p>
<p>I’d like to see you making a</p>
<p>plate. I’m so ignorant about</p>
<p>the manner of doing one.</p>
<p>Yours ever cordially,</p>
<pmary l="" p="">
<p>You know Louis’ father-in-law,</p>
<p>Colonel Rice, died a few days</p>
<p>ago. I see Louis & Alice rarely.</p>
<p>They seldom entertain or invite anyone</p>
<p>to the new home. I think life over-whelms</p>
<p>them.</p>
</pmary>
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<p>ever seen. I cdn’t appear to</p>
<p>receive them as the weekend</p>
<p>was one of my bad times of being</p>
<p>too tired to move.</p>
<p>The more I look at Jack’s</p>
<p>boat & the river, the better pleased</p>
<p>I am with the book-plate. I love</p>
<p>the clored effect behind the sail.</p>
<p>I’d like to see you making a</p>
<p>plate. I’m so ignorant about</p>
<p>the manner of doing one.</p>
<p>Yours ever cordially,</p>
<pmary l="" p="">
<p>You know Louis’ father-in-law,</p>
<p>Colonel Rice, died a few days</p>
<p>ago. I see Louis & Alice rarely.</p>
<p>They seldom entertain or invite anyone</p>
<p>to the new home. I think life over-whelms</p>
<p>them.</p>
</pmary>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
Description
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
Creator
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
Date
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1932-1950
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English
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, July 17, 1945 (Ms2017-001)
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1945-07-17
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Letters
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 6
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1972
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<p>Apr. 15 1945</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Williamsburg’s no go. At the cost of</p>
<p>hours of phoning, writing, & sweating, we’ve given it</p>
<ol>
<li>People can’t get there. All city folk seem to</li>
</ol>
<p>have A. cards & can’t drive up, we can’t chart</p>
<p>any buses in war time (Uncle Sam forbids) & they</p>
<p>run, as do the trains, at the wrong times.</p>
<p>I asked the rev. (he’s not at all rev,</p>
<p>really) Mr. Gray for the Parish house of Old Doration</p>
<p>the little brick building on Witch Duck ½ a mile</p>
<p>from our house & to my utter amazement he</p>
<p>offered the church itself! I asked him if he</p>
<p>would be criticized & he said—“So what?’</p>
<p>declared that nothing could be more suitable to a</p>
<p>church than beautiful poetry. I think there will be</p>
<p>some raining of eyes from & I know a certain lady</p>
<p>in town will lath herself hoarse about our profaning</p>
<p>sacred things (she plays poker for good stakes</p>
<p>Sunday mornings), but Old Doration it is.</p>
<p>There will be supper served at $1.25 a</p>
<p>plate for the benefit of the church after the</p>
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<p>Apr. 15 1945</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Williamsburg’s no go. At the cost of</p>
<p>hours of phoning, writing, & sweating, we’ve given it</p>
<ol>
<li>People can’t get there. All city folk seem to</li>
</ol>
<p>have A. cards & can’t drive up, we can’t chart</p>
<p>any buses in war time (Uncle Sam forbids) & they</p>
<p>run, as do the trains, at the wrong times.</p>
<p>I asked the rev. (he’s not at all rev,</p>
<p>really) Mr. Gray for the Parish house of Old Doration</p>
<p>the little brick building on Witch Duck ½ a mile</p>
<p>from our house & to my utter amazement he</p>
<p>offered the church itself! I asked him if he</p>
<p>would be criticized & he said—“So what?’</p>
<p>declared that nothing could be more suitable to a</p>
<p>church than beautiful poetry. I think there will be</p>
<p>some raining of eyes from & I know a certain lady</p>
<p>in town will lath herself hoarse about our profaning</p>
<p>sacred things (she plays poker for good stakes</p>
<p>Sunday mornings), but Old Doration it is.</p>
<p>There will be supper served at $1.25 a</p>
<p>plate for the benefit of the church after the</p>
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<p>reading. I have as yet no idea when</p>
<p>Marse Robert will arrive or how long he will</p>
<p>stay. But there’s time enough to find out all that,</p>
<p>as his reading is scheduled for May 19<sup>th</sup>. It will</p>
<p>be at half-past four, so we should get the</p>
<p>men. I always like to have them around, you know.</p>
<p>This is a hurried note. I wrote you</p>
<p>a day or two ago. Don’t dare fail to let me know</p>
<p>? when you find your cat or the shack</p>
<p>you’re looking for. It must be found!</p>
<p>Yours ever friendly,</p>
<p>Mary L.</p>
<p>The more I think of your “art centre” the</p>
<p>more I am aglow with its possibilities. Don’t—</p>
<p>please don’t—let anything dismay or discourage</p>
<p>you.</p>
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<p>reading. I have as yet no idea when</p>
<p>Marse Robert will arrive or how long he will</p>
<p>stay. But there’s time enough to find out all that,</p>
<p>as his reading is scheduled for May 19<sup>th</sup>. It will</p>
<p>be at half-past four, so we should get the</p>
<p>men. I always like to have them around, you know.</p>
<p>This is a hurried note. I wrote you</p>
<p>a day or two ago. Don’t dare fail to let me know</p>
<p>? when you find your cat or the shack</p>
<p>you’re looking for. It must be found!</p>
<p>Yours ever friendly,</p>
<p>Mary L.</p>
<p>The more I think of your “art centre” the</p>
<p>more I am aglow with its possibilities. Don’t—</p>
<p>please don’t—let anything dismay or discourage</p>
<p>you.</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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1932-1950
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_B1F6_LeitchtoLankes_1945_0415
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, April 15, 1945 (Ms2017-001)
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1945-04-15
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Letters
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Ms2017-001, Box 1, Folder 6
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1971
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<p>Feb 16 1945</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Robert P.T.C. is definitely due to read in</p>
<p>Norfolk on the night of the tenth March, at the Wom-</p>
<p>an’s Club on Fairfax Ave. He may come to “Wycher-</p>
<p>ley” for two nights, arriving on the ninth. He is try-ing</p>
<p>to push back an engagement in Phila. so he can do</p>
<ol>
<li>But he is very uncertain of success, so his visit</li>
</ol>
<p>will probably be a twenty-four hour one this time. He</p>
<p>is or will be en route for Fort Worth, Texas. He is</p>
<p>making a big sweep around a southern circuit. I felt</p>
<p>we had better decline his offer to come to us on his</p>
<p>way back, for I believe that will be on a stretcher.</p>
<p>The whole plan seems to me mad, considering his recent</p>
<p>heart trouble, but he is exuberant with life which nearly</p>
<p>bursts his arteries with its abundance, and I suppose</p>
<p>he just can’t accept any weakening of his powers.</p>
<p>Won’t you come over for the reading and spend</p>
<p>the night with us all at “Wycherley?” If you can’t</p>
<p>pry yourself loose from your job early in the day, so</p>
<p>you can get out here for supper (I am the cook, so it</p>
<p>is not dinner), then come to the club, and drive out</p>
<p>with us after the reading, which would make things quite</p>
<p>easy for you. On Sunday there will be time for us to</p>
<p>have quite a pow-wow, as Bob does not leave before the</p>
<p>two-thirty train. And I promise that we won’t talk poetry</p>
<p>all the morning.</p>
<p>I have been having some correspondence with you</p>
<p>friend, Mr Wood. How nice he is—but I do wish he would</p>
<p>get it out of that stubborn head of his that if he learns</p>
<p>to write really good poetry, he will cease to be himself.</p>
<p>He thinks he will lose his appeal altogether if he injects</p>
<p>some genuine art into his work. I wish you would talk to</p>
<p>him and persuade him that the better poet he is, the more</p>
<p>he will put over the simple heart appeal his verse makes.</p>
<p>He has a lot of talent and can turn a phrase with great</p>
<p>charm. I was horrified to discover that he thought I was</p>
<p>trying to propel him in sur-realistic work—I who have</p>
<p>for years been giving blood and sweat to fight these new</p>
<p>trends.</p>
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<p>Feb 16 1945</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Robert P.T.C. is definitely due to read in</p>
<p>Norfolk on the night of the tenth March, at the Wom-</p>
<p>an’s Club on Fairfax Ave. He may come to “Wycher-</p>
<p>ley” for two nights, arriving on the ninth. He is try-ing</p>
<p>to push back an engagement in Phila. so he can do</p>
<ol>
<li>But he is very uncertain of success, so his visit</li>
</ol>
<p>will probably be a twenty-four hour one this time. He</p>
<p>is or will be en route for Fort Worth, Texas. He is</p>
<p>making a big sweep around a southern circuit. I felt</p>
<p>we had better decline his offer to come to us on his</p>
<p>way back, for I believe that will be on a stretcher.</p>
<p>The whole plan seems to me mad, considering his recent</p>
<p>heart trouble, but he is exuberant with life which nearly</p>
<p>bursts his arteries with its abundance, and I suppose</p>
<p>he just can’t accept any weakening of his powers.</p>
<p>Won’t you come over for the reading and spend</p>
<p>the night with us all at “Wycherley?” If you can’t</p>
<p>pry yourself loose from your job early in the day, so</p>
<p>you can get out here for supper (I am the cook, so it</p>
<p>is not dinner), then come to the club, and drive out</p>
<p>with us after the reading, which would make things quite</p>
<p>easy for you. On Sunday there will be time for us to</p>
<p>have quite a pow-wow, as Bob does not leave before the</p>
<p>two-thirty train. And I promise that we won’t talk poetry</p>
<p>all the morning.</p>
<p>I have been having some correspondence with you</p>
<p>friend, Mr Wood. How nice he is—but I do wish he would</p>
<p>get it out of that stubborn head of his that if he learns</p>
<p>to write really good poetry, he will cease to be himself.</p>
<p>He thinks he will lose his appeal altogether if he injects</p>
<p>some genuine art into his work. I wish you would talk to</p>
<p>him and persuade him that the better poet he is, the more</p>
<p>he will put over the simple heart appeal his verse makes.</p>
<p>He has a lot of talent and can turn a phrase with great</p>
<p>charm. I was horrified to discover that he thought I was</p>
<p>trying to propel him in sur-realistic work—I who have</p>
<p>for years been giving blood and sweat to fight these new</p>
<p>trends.</p>
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<p>We have a pair of sculptors and a pair of architectures at ten-</p>
<p>ants, the safe and sane persons who were in the KERNEL having</p>
<p>had to depart after two years there. And I am learning about</p>
<p>art from these new Wycherleyites. I pointed out some of you</p>
<p>woodcuts to the she sculptor the other day, and there was a</p>
<p>heavy silence. The fact that your house looks like a house makes</p>
<p>it inartistic; I’m afraid you didn’t know that. She is doing a</p>
<p>frog. I asked her if it was to look like a frog, and she gazed</p>
<p>at me in horror of my ignorance. Of course it wasn’t; it was</p>
<p>just to give people the reaction a frog would give. But how</p>
<p>were they to know they were supposed to have froggy reactions,</p>
<p>I asked. Well, she was to indicated the leg of a frog to show</p>
<p>that. I am curious to see, when it is done, how I react to</p>
<p>a frog, especially to something that isn’t a frog but suggests</p>
<p>one. It is all very confusing to a person as stupid as I am.</p>
<p>If you want to bring along your sketching kit, we might</p>
<p>all go over to the Thoroughood house on Sunday morning, and you</p>
<p>could start your cut. I know Bob would be very much interested</p>
<p>in seeing the place and in looking over your shoulder while you worked.</p>
<p>Hans came out for supper on Sunday night. His nature is</p>
<p>too generous: he lives too much in others. I am delighted that</p>
<p>he’s taking up his book again, for I have worried a good deal</p>
<p>over his neglect of his own talents. Did he tell you of the</p>
<p>beautiful thing he did for my Christmas? He sent out to Chi-</p>
<p>cago two settings he had made for poems of mine, and had records</p>
<p>made of them and gave these records to me. Our Victorla is</p>
<p>much the worse for wear, but it does give in low tones an un-</p>
<p>satisfactory rendering of the music, and the voice that sings</p>
<p>the songs is very fine, so I get a great deal of pleasure out</p>
<p>of the records in spite of the Victrola’s antiquity. I want you</p>
<p>to hear them when you come.</p>
<p>Jack is painting the walls of the living-rooms and is</p>
<p>perfectly happy, bathed with grease and turpentine from head to</p>
<p>foot. He will forget the war till time to put his brushes to soak</p>
<p>this evening.</p>
<p>Now don’t write that you will or you won’t, you won’t</p>
<p>or you will, come—that you don’t know whether, it or when, but</p>
<p>sit down and say you ARE COMING.</p>
<p>Yours ever faithfully,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>I am so very glad Mrs Mahler has come back to us. I was much</p>
<p>afraid she would stay up north. I am happy too about her job.</p>
<p>It may not be any great shakes now, but it seems there is a</p>
<p>future in it, and that’s what matters. I hated the idea of her</p>
<p>selling beauty lotions, etc. from door to door. I loathe beauty</p>
<p>lotions anyhow, thought perhaps if I didn’t I might</p>
<p>have “that skin you love to touch” which</p>
<p>I believe is much desired of the more deadly species.</p>
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<p>We have a pair of sculptors and a pair of architectures at ten-</p>
<p>ants, the safe and sane persons who were in the KERNEL having</p>
<p>had to depart after two years there. And I am learning about</p>
<p>art from these new Wycherleyites. I pointed out some of you</p>
<p>woodcuts to the she sculptor the other day, and there was a</p>
<p>heavy silence. The fact that your house looks like a house makes</p>
<p>it inartistic; I’m afraid you didn’t know that. She is doing a</p>
<p>frog. I asked her if it was to look like a frog, and she gazed</p>
<p>at me in horror of my ignorance. Of course it wasn’t; it was</p>
<p>just to give people the reaction a frog would give. But how</p>
<p>were they to know they were supposed to have froggy reactions,</p>
<p>I asked. Well, she was to indicated the leg of a frog to show</p>
<p>that. I am curious to see, when it is done, how I react to</p>
<p>a frog, especially to something that isn’t a frog but suggests</p>
<p>one. It is all very confusing to a person as stupid as I am.</p>
<p>If you want to bring along your sketching kit, we might</p>
<p>all go over to the Thoroughood house on Sunday morning, and you</p>
<p>could start your cut. I know Bob would be very much interested</p>
<p>in seeing the place and in looking over your shoulder while you worked.</p>
<p>Hans came out for supper on Sunday night. His nature is</p>
<p>too generous: he lives too much in others. I am delighted that</p>
<p>he’s taking up his book again, for I have worried a good deal</p>
<p>over his neglect of his own talents. Did he tell you of the</p>
<p>beautiful thing he did for my Christmas? He sent out to Chi-</p>
<p>cago two settings he had made for poems of mine, and had records</p>
<p>made of them and gave these records to me. Our Victorla is</p>
<p>much the worse for wear, but it does give in low tones an un-</p>
<p>satisfactory rendering of the music, and the voice that sings</p>
<p>the songs is very fine, so I get a great deal of pleasure out</p>
<p>of the records in spite of the Victrola’s antiquity. I want you</p>
<p>to hear them when you come.</p>
<p>Jack is painting the walls of the living-rooms and is</p>
<p>perfectly happy, bathed with grease and turpentine from head to</p>
<p>foot. He will forget the war till time to put his brushes to soak</p>
<p>this evening.</p>
<p>Now don’t write that you will or you won’t, you won’t</p>
<p>or you will, come—that you don’t know whether, it or when, but</p>
<p>sit down and say you ARE COMING.</p>
<p>Yours ever faithfully,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>I am so very glad Mrs Mahler has come back to us. I was much</p>
<p>afraid she would stay up north. I am happy too about her job.</p>
<p>It may not be any great shakes now, but it seems there is a</p>
<p>future in it, and that’s what matters. I hated the idea of her</p>
<p>selling beauty lotions, etc. from door to door. I loathe beauty</p>
<p>lotions anyhow, thought perhaps if I didn’t I might</p>
<p>have “that skin you love to touch” which</p>
<p>I believe is much desired of the more deadly species.</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
Subject
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
Description
An account of the resource
The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
Creator
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
Source
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
Date
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1932-1950
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<a href="https://omeka.lib.vt.edu/files/thumbnails/spec_forms/PubPermission.doc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Permission to publish material from the<span> Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes</span><span> </span>must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a>
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English
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Letters
Identifier
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, Ms2017-001, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
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Special Collections, Virginia Tech
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, February 16, 1945 (Ms2017-001)
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1945-02-16
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<p>[written sideways at top of page]</p>
<p>Louis sent Himself & me a huge “blue cheese” our most exciting Xmas gift save for a record Hans had made for me of two of my poems he set to music quite beautifully.</p>
<p><br /><br />Dec 28 1944</p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> Your card is perfectly</p>
<p>charming. Some day—oh some</p>
<p>day—I am going to begin before Christmas</p>
<p>time to think about cards, & plan for</p>
<p>some pretty ones, instead of having to</p>
<p>fight my way through a ? heap</p>
<p>to grab the first ten cent store greeting</p>
<p>I can lay hands on. Of course I can</p>
<p>never achieve as lovely ones as you</p>
<p>do, as I’m not a wood cut man.</p>
<p>I might “hire” you, come to consider</p>
<p>it, a la Mrs Darling (didn’t you</p>
<p>forgive her that day at Hampton?) to</p>
<p>illustrate a Christmas poem of my</p>
<p>own creating, eh wot? This</p>
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<p>Louis sent Himself & me a huge “blue cheese” our most exciting Xmas gift save for a record Hans had made for me of two of my poems he set to music quite beautifully.</p>
<p><br /><br />Dec 28 1944</p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> Your card is perfectly</p>
<p>charming. Some day—oh some</p>
<p>day—I am going to begin before Christmas</p>
<p>time to think about cards, & plan for</p>
<p>some pretty ones, instead of having to</p>
<p>fight my way through a ? heap</p>
<p>to grab the first ten cent store greeting</p>
<p>I can lay hands on. Of course I can</p>
<p>never achieve as lovely ones as you</p>
<p>do, as I’m not a wood cut man.</p>
<p>I might “hire” you, come to consider</p>
<p>it, a la Mrs Darling (didn’t you</p>
<p>forgive her that day at Hampton?) to</p>
<p>illustrate a Christmas poem of my</p>
<p>own creating, eh wot? This</p>
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<p>year Himself & I didn’t send out</p>
<p>any cards at all, save to half a dozen</p>
<p>persons with whom we’d had no</p>
<p>contact of late. I feel awfully seedy</p>
<p>still & I ? the excitement in the</p>
<p>air would be all I could stand</p>
<p>without my adding to it. It was</p>
<p>I’ve been limp as a limpet (is a</p>
<p>limpet limp? It occurs to me he—</p>
<p>or she—has a shell!) over ? the</p>
<p>turkey dinner which was later at my</p>
<p>daughter Charlotte’s apt, not at</p>
<p>“Wycherly” this year.</p>
<p>Bob Coffin makes what seems</p>
<p>to me an utterly wild & dangerous</p>
<p>sweep over 2/4 the U.S. in the</p>
<p>early spring. He writes he’s to read</p>
<p>in Newark near 9<sup>th</sup> & in Fort</p>
<p>Worth, Texas, near 13<sup>th</sup> & can he</p>
<p>get in Hampton on the 10<sup>th</sup> & Norfolk on</p>
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<p>year Himself & I didn’t send out</p>
<p>any cards at all, save to half a dozen</p>
<p>persons with whom we’d had no</p>
<p>contact of late. I feel awfully seedy</p>
<p>still & I ? the excitement in the</p>
<p>air would be all I could stand</p>
<p>without my adding to it. It was</p>
<p>I’ve been limp as a limpet (is a</p>
<p>limpet limp? It occurs to me he—</p>
<p>or she—has a shell!) over ? the</p>
<p>turkey dinner which was later at my</p>
<p>daughter Charlotte’s apt, not at</p>
<p>“Wycherly” this year.</p>
<p>Bob Coffin makes what seems</p>
<p>to me an utterly wild & dangerous</p>
<p>sweep over 2/4 the U.S. in the</p>
<p>early spring. He writes he’s to read</p>
<p>in Newark near 9<sup>th</sup> & in Fort</p>
<p>Worth, Texas, near 13<sup>th</sup> & can he</p>
<p>get in Hampton on the 10<sup>th</sup> & Norfolk on</p>
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<p>the 11<sup>th</sup>. Jack looked up trains</p>
<p>& I had to write him</p>
<p>that he must cut out Hampton for</p>
<p>he’ll have to leave here on the early</p>
<p>afternoon of the 11<sup>th</sup> in order to arrive</p>
<p>in Texas on time. So he will probably</p>
<p>give us a reading on the night of</p>
<p>Mar. 10<sup>th</sup>. Hampton had not been</p>
<p>approached yet, so there’s no question of</p>
<p>a broken engagement. Anyway he may</p>
<p>read there on his way back. But,</p>
<p>if the truth is told, I don’t expect him</p>
<p>to get through the whole program. I</p>
<p>believe he’ll break & go home in the</p>
<p>middle of it. I wrote him a regular</p>
<p>Caudle Curtain lecture (tut you’re too</p>
<p>young to remember Mrs Caudle) but</p>
<p>of course it won’t have the least effect</p>
<p>or perhaps to make Ruth feel I’m</p>
<p>setting in on her territory.</p>
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<p>the 11<sup>th</sup>. Jack looked up trains</p>
<p>& I had to write him</p>
<p>that he must cut out Hampton for</p>
<p>he’ll have to leave here on the early</p>
<p>afternoon of the 11<sup>th</sup> in order to arrive</p>
<p>in Texas on time. So he will probably</p>
<p>give us a reading on the night of</p>
<p>Mar. 10<sup>th</sup>. Hampton had not been</p>
<p>approached yet, so there’s no question of</p>
<p>a broken engagement. Anyway he may</p>
<p>read there on his way back. But,</p>
<p>if the truth is told, I don’t expect him</p>
<p>to get through the whole program. I</p>
<p>believe he’ll break & go home in the</p>
<p>middle of it. I wrote him a regular</p>
<p>Caudle Curtain lecture (tut you’re too</p>
<p>young to remember Mrs Caudle) but</p>
<p>of course it won’t have the least effect</p>
<p>or perhaps to make Ruth feel I’m</p>
<p>setting in on her territory.</p>
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<p>Hans tells me he has an idea you</p>
<p>might like to come over again for</p>
<p>a bit of a change & spend a Sat-</p>
<p>urday night. Let me know if the</p>
<p>spirit moves you to do so, & you</p>
<p>might sketch the Adam Thoroughgood</p>
<p>house while here. I haven’t felt up</p>
<p>to the trip to Thrasher’s nurseries yet,</p>
<p>but if I ever get there I’ll speak of</p>
<p>you. </p>
<p>As ever,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>I was much pleased that Mr</p>
<p>Wood sent me that lovely little</p>
<p>brochure. the man has talked &</p>
<p>needs criticism. I hope he’ll take</p>
<p>himself seriously & do a bit of study-</p>
<p>ing of technique.</p>
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<p>Hans tells me he has an idea you</p>
<p>might like to come over again for</p>
<p>a bit of a change & spend a Sat-</p>
<p>urday night. Let me know if the</p>
<p>spirit moves you to do so, & you</p>
<p>might sketch the Adam Thoroughgood</p>
<p>house while here. I haven’t felt up</p>
<p>to the trip to Thrasher’s nurseries yet,</p>
<p>but if I ever get there I’ll speak of</p>
<p>you. </p>
<p>As ever,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>I was much pleased that Mr</p>
<p>Wood sent me that lovely little</p>
<p>brochure. the man has talked &</p>
<p>needs criticism. I hope he’ll take</p>
<p>himself seriously & do a bit of study-</p>
<p>ing of technique.</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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1932-1950
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, December 28, 1944 (Ms2017-001)
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1944-12-28
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<p>Sep 27 1944</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Job Job:</p>
<p>Himself and I are so glad</p>
<p>you are coming. But you don’t</p>
<p>need to repair underwire or sew</p>
<p>on buttons. You won’t be rooming</p>
<p>with Bob Coffin. He & Ruther & Peggy</p>
<p>will be in the guest cottage &</p>
<p>you’ll be alone in Jack’s room</p>
<p>(Jack jr. is “somewhere in the</p>
<p>Pacific”) & notes won’t show.</p>
<p>I’ll let you know when I</p>
<p>find out at what hour we can</p>
<p>escape the gang at Mrs Darling’s</p>
<p>I hope to make you an excuse to</p>
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<p>Sep 27 1944</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Job Job:</p>
<p>Himself and I are so glad</p>
<p>you are coming. But you don’t</p>
<p>need to repair underwire or sew</p>
<p>on buttons. You won’t be rooming</p>
<p>with Bob Coffin. He & Ruther & Peggy</p>
<p>will be in the guest cottage &</p>
<p>you’ll be alone in Jack’s room</p>
<p>(Jack jr. is “somewhere in the</p>
<p>Pacific”) & notes won’t show.</p>
<p>I’ll let you know when I</p>
<p>find out at what hour we can</p>
<p>escape the gang at Mrs Darling’s</p>
<p>I hope to make you an excuse to</p>
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<p>break away earlier than we might</p>
<p>otherwise do. We’ll pick you up at</p>
<p>the old point ferry, drive to Wycherly</p>
<p>for supper & go to Louis’ at 8:30</p>
<p>But why don’t you accept the</p>
<p>invitation as set forth on the</p>
<p>enclosed card? Mrs Darling</p>
<p>may not remember that you rated</p>
<p>art so high—she makes a very</p>
<p>warm-hearted hostess.</p>
<p>Hans was here for supper last</p>
<p>night & will see you at the Jaffe’s</p>
<p>We are devoted to him & her arranging</p>
<p>that he sh’d work with the plumbing</p>
<p>dept at Sears, Roebuck, ?</p>
<p>knowing the name of a single</p>
<p>pipe or fixture & handle them</p>
<p>with as much ease, apparently,</p>
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<p>break away earlier than we might</p>
<p>otherwise do. We’ll pick you up at</p>
<p>the old point ferry, drive to Wycherly</p>
<p>for supper & go to Louis’ at 8:30</p>
<p>But why don’t you accept the</p>
<p>invitation as set forth on the</p>
<p>enclosed card? Mrs Darling</p>
<p>may not remember that you rated</p>
<p>art so high—she makes a very</p>
<p>warm-hearted hostess.</p>
<p>Hans was here for supper last</p>
<p>night & will see you at the Jaffe’s</p>
<p>We are devoted to him & her arranging</p>
<p>that he sh’d work with the plumbing</p>
<p>dept at Sears, Roebuck, ?</p>
<p>knowing the name of a single</p>
<p>pipe or fixture & handle them</p>
<p>with as much ease, apparently,</p>
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<p>as tho’ he were verily a plumber.</p>
<p>And now after two or three weeks</p>
<p>in the clothing dept he’s been made</p>
<p>a manager of that! And all these</p>
<p>achievement in a forren tongue</p>
<p>that he still speaks with a quite</p>
<p>horrific accents. He has</p>
<p>brilliant mind-- & is a dear</p>
<p>fellow at that—an unusual</p>
<p>combination? I wish to goodness</p>
<p>he & his wife could make a go of</p>
<p>life together. I think she is</p>
<p>a woman a man might thank</p>
<p>heaven for!</p>
<p>I’m in too much of a hurry</p>
<p>to indulge in chatter.</p>
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<p>as tho’ he were verily a plumber.</p>
<p>And now after two or three weeks</p>
<p>in the clothing dept he’s been made</p>
<p>a manager of that! And all these</p>
<p>achievement in a forren tongue</p>
<p>that he still speaks with a quite</p>
<p>horrific accents. He has</p>
<p>brilliant mind-- & is a dear</p>
<p>fellow at that—an unusual</p>
<p>combination? I wish to goodness</p>
<p>he & his wife could make a go of</p>
<p>life together. I think she is</p>
<p>a woman a man might thank</p>
<p>heaven for!</p>
<p>I’m in too much of a hurry</p>
<p>to indulge in chatter.</p>
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<p>A ?,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
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<p>A ?,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
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1932-1950
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, September 27, 1941 (Ms2017-001)
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1944-09-27
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<p>Sep 20, 1944</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Tush and tut! Mrs Darling hasn’t a mean bone in her</p>
<p>whole little round body. You sized her up the wrong way, I</p>
<p>assure you. She simply and quite honestly had no idea how much</p>
<p>work was involved in the job. Probably she knew nothing whatever</p>
<p>of woodcuts anyway. Her surprise and dismay were surely genuine;</p>
<p>she wasn’t merely trying to beat you down. SHE JUST DIDN’T KNOW.</p>
<p>Be charitable and forgive her. I’m sure you don’t think any poem</p>
<p>of mine is worth more than a dollar or two, but imagine the hours</p>
<p>and days and—worse—nights that have probably been spent on</p>
<p>You see you don’t write poems and Mrs Darling doesn’t make</p>
<p>woodcuts, so both of you should be forgiven.</p>
<p>Don’t for a moment suppose that I am putting my verse in</p>
<p>the same category with your pictures. I may be a poet of sorts,</p>
<p>But I am not as conceited as that. I am only trying to open</p>
<p>your mind a bit though I am certain it is as tight-closed as</p>
<p>an oyster against Mrs Darling.</p>
<p>I am handing you a rain check on my invitation for the</p>
<p>night of the seventh. But let me know in time to arrange to get</p>
<p>you over here by car if possible. We will all go to the Jaffe’s</p>
<p>that night after having supper at Wycherley. I told you Ruth and</p>
<p>Peggy were coming? They will be powerful disappointed if you</p>
<p>are not on hand. Try to fix your dates up so you can be.</p>
<p>I have been hearing a good deal lately about calibrating</p>
<p>instruments. A cousin of mine who has been visiting us recently</p>
<p>has just resigned from a like job to yours. He said he could</p>
<p>not do the work sitting, and his strength gave out, he resigned,</p>
<p>though much against his desire, after having two convulsions</p>
<p>while at the plant. I wonder if you too have to stand all the</p>
<p>time. I am glad you translated NACA. My friends all write me</p>
<p>that they are doing WJZ work in a MPB plant and would rather</p>
<p>be at a HPRTY etc. etc. with the result that they might as</p>
<p>well use Choctaw for all I can understand.</p>
<p>Try to joining us on the 7<sup>th</sup> and beg Mrs Darling’s</p>
<p>pardon (in your heart) for having been ignorant of woodcuts.</p>
<p>Very unlikely you’re ignorant about oysters which are her specialty.</p>
<p>Yours in hopes,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
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<p>Sep 20, 1944</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Tush and tut! Mrs Darling hasn’t a mean bone in her</p>
<p>whole little round body. You sized her up the wrong way, I</p>
<p>assure you. She simply and quite honestly had no idea how much</p>
<p>work was involved in the job. Probably she knew nothing whatever</p>
<p>of woodcuts anyway. Her surprise and dismay were surely genuine;</p>
<p>she wasn’t merely trying to beat you down. SHE JUST DIDN’T KNOW.</p>
<p>Be charitable and forgive her. I’m sure you don’t think any poem</p>
<p>of mine is worth more than a dollar or two, but imagine the hours</p>
<p>and days and—worse—nights that have probably been spent on</p>
<p>You see you don’t write poems and Mrs Darling doesn’t make</p>
<p>woodcuts, so both of you should be forgiven.</p>
<p>Don’t for a moment suppose that I am putting my verse in</p>
<p>the same category with your pictures. I may be a poet of sorts,</p>
<p>But I am not as conceited as that. I am only trying to open</p>
<p>your mind a bit though I am certain it is as tight-closed as</p>
<p>an oyster against Mrs Darling.</p>
<p>I am handing you a rain check on my invitation for the</p>
<p>night of the seventh. But let me know in time to arrange to get</p>
<p>you over here by car if possible. We will all go to the Jaffe’s</p>
<p>that night after having supper at Wycherley. I told you Ruth and</p>
<p>Peggy were coming? They will be powerful disappointed if you</p>
<p>are not on hand. Try to fix your dates up so you can be.</p>
<p>I have been hearing a good deal lately about calibrating</p>
<p>instruments. A cousin of mine who has been visiting us recently</p>
<p>has just resigned from a like job to yours. He said he could</p>
<p>not do the work sitting, and his strength gave out, he resigned,</p>
<p>though much against his desire, after having two convulsions</p>
<p>while at the plant. I wonder if you too have to stand all the</p>
<p>time. I am glad you translated NACA. My friends all write me</p>
<p>that they are doing WJZ work in a MPB plant and would rather</p>
<p>be at a HPRTY etc. etc. with the result that they might as</p>
<p>well use Choctaw for all I can understand.</p>
<p>Try to joining us on the 7<sup>th</sup> and beg Mrs Darling’s</p>
<p>pardon (in your heart) for having been ignorant of woodcuts.</p>
<p>Very unlikely you’re ignorant about oysters which are her specialty.</p>
<p>Yours in hopes,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
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<p>Sep. 10 1944</p>
<p> Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Bob Coffin, Ruth & Peggy</p>
<p>are arriving at Hampton on Thursday</p>
<p>Oct. 5, as guests for that night</p>
<p>& Friday night of Mrs Frank</p>
<p>Darling of “Cedar Hall.” On Saturday</p>
<p>they will come to us for a night &</p>
<p>will leave for Maine on Sunday.</p>
<p>On Saturday there will be</p>
<p>a luncheon at noon at Mrs</p>
<p>Darling’s & Bob Coffin will read</p>
<p>immediately after the meal—say</p>
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<p>Sep. 10 1944</p>
<p> Dear J.J.:</p>
<p>Bob Coffin, Ruth & Peggy</p>
<p>are arriving at Hampton on Thursday</p>
<p>Oct. 5, as guests for that night</p>
<p>& Friday night of Mrs Frank</p>
<p>Darling of “Cedar Hall.” On Saturday</p>
<p>they will come to us for a night &</p>
<p>will leave for Maine on Sunday.</p>
<p>On Saturday there will be</p>
<p>a luncheon at noon at Mrs</p>
<p>Darling’s & Bob Coffin will read</p>
<p>immediately after the meal—say</p>
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<p>at one thirty. I’d like to have you</p>
<p>at the luncheon & lecture as my</p>
<p>guest, if you can sneak away</p>
<p>from your war plant. In any</p>
<p>case may we not drive you</p>
<p>over with us to “Wycherly”</p>
<p>that afternoon after the reading,</p>
<p>keep you over night, & take you</p>
<p>to a gathering of Bob’s friends</p>
<p>at Louis J’s that evening. Well</p>
<p>all have supper here, then go on</p>
<p>to the Jaffe’s later. Eh not?</p>
<p>My house is chock full of guests</p>
<p>six of ‘em, & it’s time for me</p>
<p>to cook dinner</p>
<p>Please come!</p>
<p>Faithfully,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
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<p>at one thirty. I’d like to have you</p>
<p>at the luncheon & lecture as my</p>
<p>guest, if you can sneak away</p>
<p>from your war plant. In any</p>
<p>case may we not drive you</p>
<p>over with us to “Wycherly”</p>
<p>that afternoon after the reading,</p>
<p>keep you over night, & take you</p>
<p>to a gathering of Bob’s friends</p>
<p>at Louis J’s that evening. Well</p>
<p>all have supper here, then go on</p>
<p>to the Jaffe’s later. Eh not?</p>
<p>My house is chock full of guests</p>
<p>six of ‘em, & it’s time for me</p>
<p>to cook dinner</p>
<p>Please come!</p>
<p>Faithfully,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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<p>Dec 19 1941</p>
<p> Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> I am not as indifferent</p>
<p>as I seem to the fact that you</p>
<p>may have lost a leg! I myself</p>
<p>have been ? having grippe while</p>
<p>your blood poisoning was going on, &</p>
<p>even now, I am as shaky as</p>
<p>you must be. Nonetheless I am</p>
<p>about to depart for Stera Bosa’s</p>
<p>to partake – of what do you</p>
<p>think?—venison! Her hus-</p>
<p>band has shot a deer & offers</p>
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<p>Dec 19 1941</p>
<p> Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> I am not as indifferent</p>
<p>as I seem to the fact that you</p>
<p>may have lost a leg! I myself</p>
<p>have been ? having grippe while</p>
<p>your blood poisoning was going on, &</p>
<p>even now, I am as shaky as</p>
<p>you must be. Nonetheless I am</p>
<p>about to depart for Stera Bosa’s</p>
<p>to partake – of what do you</p>
<p>think?—venison! Her hus-</p>
<p>band has shot a deer & offers</p>
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<p>my daughter, Babs, & me a share</p>
<p>of the feast! Himself too, but</p>
<p>himself, having started building another</p>
<p>room, refuses to leave “Wycherly”</p>
<p>Babs is the one of my children who</p>
<p>has a husband somewhere on the</p>
<p>high seas in a submarine, so I</p>
<p>am delighted to be taking her to</p>
<p>a party. It is my job now to</p>
<p>keep her so busy she has no time</p>
<p>to think.</p>
<p> The picture came & is back</p>
<p>from the framer but I have not</p>
<p>so much as peeped at it since</p>
<p>I saw it’s prototype at the</p>
<p>museum. Well I know the joy</p>
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<p>my daughter, Babs, & me a share</p>
<p>of the feast! Himself too, but</p>
<p>himself, having started building another</p>
<p>room, refuses to leave “Wycherly”</p>
<p>Babs is the one of my children who</p>
<p>has a husband somewhere on the</p>
<p>high seas in a submarine, so I</p>
<p>am delighted to be taking her to</p>
<p>a party. It is my job now to</p>
<p>keep her so busy she has no time</p>
<p>to think.</p>
<p> The picture came & is back</p>
<p>from the framer but I have not</p>
<p>so much as peeped at it since</p>
<p>I saw it’s prototype at the</p>
<p>museum. Well I know the joy</p>
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<p>it will give me in future years</p>
<p>(if any). I feel today</p>
<p>that “future” is a word that has</p>
<p>little reality. If we can get through</p>
<p>the present & suffer what each</p>
<p>day brings, we are lucky. Not</p>
<p>that I’m blue about the outcome,</p>
<p>but the cost of young lives! did</p>
<p>you see the picture in “Life” of</p>
<p>some of the men who died at</p>
<p>Pearl Harbor? I can’t get</p>
<p>them out of my eyes.</p>
<p> If you feel depressed at</p>
<p>Christmas time, call us up &</p>
<p>tell is to meet you at the ferry</p>
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<p>it will give me in future years</p>
<p>(if any). I feel today</p>
<p>that “future” is a word that has</p>
<p>little reality. If we can get through</p>
<p>the present & suffer what each</p>
<p>day brings, we are lucky. Not</p>
<p>that I’m blue about the outcome,</p>
<p>but the cost of young lives! did</p>
<p>you see the picture in “Life” of</p>
<p>some of the men who died at</p>
<p>Pearl Harbor? I can’t get</p>
<p>them out of my eyes.</p>
<p> If you feel depressed at</p>
<p>Christmas time, call us up &</p>
<p>tell is to meet you at the ferry</p>
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<p>your welcome at “Wycherly” is</p>
<p>always ready.</p>
<p>I had wanted to get hold of</p>
<p>some of your Xmas cards to</p>
<p>sent out, but the grippe made</p>
<p>all my places so ugly.</p>
<p>Warm greetings from John &</p>
<p>me.</p>
<p>Faithfully,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>I do hope the poisoning is entirely</p>
<p>over. Eh wot?</p>
<p>I saw Mr Mahler for a few pleasant</p>
<p>moments at a party at Sor Elect</p>
<p>Wardens the other night. He already</p>
<p>knew as many people as he’d care to</p>
<p>know I’m sure.</p>
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<p>your welcome at “Wycherly” is</p>
<p>always ready.</p>
<p>I had wanted to get hold of</p>
<p>some of your Xmas cards to</p>
<p>sent out, but the grippe made</p>
<p>all my places so ugly.</p>
<p>Warm greetings from John &</p>
<p>me.</p>
<p>Faithfully,</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>I do hope the poisoning is entirely</p>
<p>over. Eh wot?</p>
<p>I saw Mr Mahler for a few pleasant</p>
<p>moments at a party at Sor Elect</p>
<p>Wardens the other night. He already</p>
<p>knew as many people as he’d care to</p>
<p>know I’m sure.</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
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1932-1950
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, December 19, 1941 (Ms2017-001)
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<p>Dec 3 1941</p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> Himself asked my what</p>
<p>I want for Christmas & I said</p>
<p>I wanted your “Sorrows Farm.” I</p>
<p>have the name wrong, but you will</p>
<p>know what I mean. the light is</p>
<p>wonderful in that woodcut. The</p>
<p>dead tree gathers it to itself &</p>
<p>fairly glows. No one could have</p>
<p>executed that picture who did not</p>
<p>have a goodly share of the sunlight</p>
<p>within his own spirit.</p>
<p> I enclosed Jack’s check & will</p>
<p>you mail the cut to him?</p>
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<p>Dec 3 1941</p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> Himself asked my what</p>
<p>I want for Christmas & I said</p>
<p>I wanted your “Sorrows Farm.” I</p>
<p>have the name wrong, but you will</p>
<p>know what I mean. the light is</p>
<p>wonderful in that woodcut. The</p>
<p>dead tree gathers it to itself &</p>
<p>fairly glows. No one could have</p>
<p>executed that picture who did not</p>
<p>have a goodly share of the sunlight</p>
<p>within his own spirit.</p>
<p> I enclosed Jack’s check & will</p>
<p>you mail the cut to him?</p>
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<p>Do you think it will take better a</p>
<p>black wood or one in the natural</p>
<p>wood?</p>
<p> We sat down at an impromptu</p>
<p>supper wine and ? here Sunday</p>
<p>night & I wished you were here as</p>
<p>we had some interesting strangers.</p>
<p>Stera was with us & told me of an</p>
<p>incident that enraged her. A woman</p>
<p>caller her up & said she’d love to</p>
<p>have one of your woodcuts. How</p>
<p>much were they? Oh she could</p>
<p>not pay that. She thought if she</p>
<p>might get one for $1.50!</p>
<p>That’s the way people feel about art.</p>
<p>They feel the same way about poetry.</p>
<p> I took a group up to your exhibit</p>
<p>the final Sunday & they were deeply</p>
<p>impressed & very enthusiastic.</p>
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<p>Do you think it will take better a</p>
<p>black wood or one in the natural</p>
<p>wood?</p>
<p> We sat down at an impromptu</p>
<p>supper wine and ? here Sunday</p>
<p>night & I wished you were here as</p>
<p>we had some interesting strangers.</p>
<p>Stera was with us & told me of an</p>
<p>incident that enraged her. A woman</p>
<p>caller her up & said she’d love to</p>
<p>have one of your woodcuts. How</p>
<p>much were they? Oh she could</p>
<p>not pay that. She thought if she</p>
<p>might get one for $1.50!</p>
<p>That’s the way people feel about art.</p>
<p>They feel the same way about poetry.</p>
<p> I took a group up to your exhibit</p>
<p>the final Sunday & they were deeply</p>
<p>impressed & very enthusiastic.</p>
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<p> No doubt you are planning to</p>
<p>“connect up” with Mr Frost while</p>
<p>he’s in the south. I am</p>
<p>sorry I can’t go over to the Phi Beta</p>
<p>Kappa meeting & hear him, but I have</p>
<p>too much to do at home just now.</p>
<p>Himself & I are getting the “kernel”</p>
<p>--the old guest house—ready for our</p>
<p>younger daughter who plans to come</p>
<p>with her two youngsters for the duration</p>
<p>while her husband roams the seas</p>
<p>in his submarine. I shall be glad</p>
<p>to have the poor child near me in</p>
<p>her anxiety. She worships her</p>
<p>man, so the strain is severe.</p>
<p> I hope your Lankes –Frost</p>
<p>greeting card has come along</p>
<p>successfully & fast. It’s horrid to</p>
<p>be rushed when doing creative work</p>
<p>& I’m not surprised that you <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">are</span> were</p>
<p>worried.</p>
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<p> No doubt you are planning to</p>
<p>“connect up” with Mr Frost while</p>
<p>he’s in the south. I am</p>
<p>sorry I can’t go over to the Phi Beta</p>
<p>Kappa meeting & hear him, but I have</p>
<p>too much to do at home just now.</p>
<p>Himself & I are getting the “kernel”</p>
<p>--the old guest house—ready for our</p>
<p>younger daughter who plans to come</p>
<p>with her two youngsters for the duration</p>
<p>while her husband roams the seas</p>
<p>in his submarine. I shall be glad</p>
<p>to have the poor child near me in</p>
<p>her anxiety. She worships her</p>
<p>man, so the strain is severe.</p>
<p> I hope your Lankes –Frost</p>
<p>greeting card has come along</p>
<p>successfully & fast. It’s horrid to</p>
<p>be rushed when doing creative work</p>
<p>& I’m not surprised that you <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">are</span> were</p>
<p>worried.</p>
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<p>We’ve had a steady stream of</p>
<p>guests since you were here, but now</p>
<p>I shall write my soul for a while in</p>
<p>the autumn woods. These heavy mists</p>
<p>fascinate me.</p>
<p> It did me good to see David</p>
<p>Worton again. I believe you don’t know</p>
<p>him. You two would understand one</p>
<p>another. When he read the other night</p>
<p>he created for the whole audience an</p>
<p>atmosphere of the most delicate nupticism</p>
<p>& even he insensitive were enthralled.</p>
<p>I don’t think he & Mr Frost like each</p>
<p>other very much, but they have lived in</p>
<p>the same small town!</p>
<p>Our best to you</p>
<pyours in="" friendship="" p="">
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
</pyours>
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<p>We’ve had a steady stream of</p>
<p>guests since you were here, but now</p>
<p>I shall write my soul for a while in</p>
<p>the autumn woods. These heavy mists</p>
<p>fascinate me.</p>
<p> It did me good to see David</p>
<p>Worton again. I believe you don’t know</p>
<p>him. You two would understand one</p>
<p>another. When he read the other night</p>
<p>he created for the whole audience an</p>
<p>atmosphere of the most delicate nupticism</p>
<p>& even he insensitive were enthralled.</p>
<p>I don’t think he & Mr Frost like each</p>
<p>other very much, but they have lived in</p>
<p>the same small town!</p>
<p>Our best to you</p>
<pyours in="" friendship="" p="">
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
</pyours>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, December 3, 1941 (Ms2017-001)
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1941-12-03
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1964
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<p>Nov. 22 1941</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This duck article struck Himself full</p>
<p>amidship & doubled him up. I was</p>
<p>amused too at the paragraph about</p>
<p>you being a silent man. However you’re</p>
<p>improving & I’ve not give up hope of</p>
<p>you. We didn’t really talk, though any of us</p>
<p>while you were here—not much. We were too</p>
<p>busy. I’m deep in AE’s mystic prose. He re-</p>
<p>minds me of Lawrence. The same sense of</p>
<p>eternity, the same sensitiveness to ? ?</p>
<p>Four guests due shortly for four days. David</p>
<p>Mortars reading tomorrow. Addios Mary L</p>
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<p>Nov. 22 1941</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This duck article struck Himself full</p>
<p>amidship & doubled him up. I was</p>
<p>amused too at the paragraph about</p>
<p>you being a silent man. However you’re</p>
<p>improving & I’ve not give up hope of</p>
<p>you. We didn’t really talk, though any of us</p>
<p>while you were here—not much. We were too</p>
<p>busy. I’m deep in AE’s mystic prose. He re-</p>
<p>minds me of Lawrence. The same sense of</p>
<p>eternity, the same sensitiveness to ? ?</p>
<p>Four guests due shortly for four days. David</p>
<p>Mortars reading tomorrow. Addios Mary L</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
Description
An account of the resource
The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
Date
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1932-1950
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Postcard, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, November 22, 1941 (Ms2017-001)
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<p>Nov. 7 1941</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> Last night I had an ?</p>
<p>conversation with Stera Bosa on the</p>
<p>phone</p>
<p>She: Has the Pilot reporter got hold</p>
<p>of you today?</p>
<p>Me: No, we’ve been away all day.</p>
<p>She: Well, she’s frantic to get you! She</p>
<p>wants you to tell her all you know</p>
<p>about Mr Lankes.</p>
<p>Me: I don’t know anything about him.</p>
<p>She: (faintly) Oh—I thought he was a</p>
<p>friend of yours.</p>
<p>Me: I hope he is but I don’t know</p>
<p>anything about him.</p>
<p>She: Well what on earth shall we do? I</p>
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<p>Nov. 7 1941</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> Last night I had an ?</p>
<p>conversation with Stera Bosa on the</p>
<p>phone</p>
<p>She: Has the Pilot reporter got hold</p>
<p>of you today?</p>
<p>Me: No, we’ve been away all day.</p>
<p>She: Well, she’s frantic to get you! She</p>
<p>wants you to tell her all you know</p>
<p>about Mr Lankes.</p>
<p>Me: I don’t know anything about him.</p>
<p>She: (faintly) Oh—I thought he was a</p>
<p>friend of yours.</p>
<p>Me: I hope he is but I don’t know</p>
<p>anything about him.</p>
<p>She: Well what on earth shall we do? I</p>
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<p>wrote him for publicity & he’s ?</p>
<p>me none, & we must get something</p>
<p>into the paper immediately.</p>
<p>Me: Well, I may not know anything about</p>
<p>him, but I can tell you something</p>
<p>about his woodcuts.</p>
<p> The confab ended in my dictating</p>
<p>over the wire the most remarkable</p>
<p>hodge-podge of Frost, Coffin, & Leitch</p>
<p>How it will come out, when it’s ground</p>
<p>through the mill, I don’t know. Anyway</p>
<p>Stera Bosa was delighted & hung up happy.</p>
<p> I told her not to write you</p>
<p>about the 15<sup>th</sup>, as I was getting a letter</p>
<p>off to you today on the subject of the</p>
<p>party. Everything is arranged for</p>
<p>that night. Tom, Himself (the mighty</p>
<p>man) & I will have supper with</p>
<p>the Waltons & a few friends will come</p>
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<p>wrote him for publicity & he’s ?</p>
<p>me none, & we must get something</p>
<p>into the paper immediately.</p>
<p>Me: Well, I may not know anything about</p>
<p>him, but I can tell you something</p>
<p>about his woodcuts.</p>
<p> The confab ended in my dictating</p>
<p>over the wire the most remarkable</p>
<p>hodge-podge of Frost, Coffin, & Leitch</p>
<p>How it will come out, when it’s ground</p>
<p>through the mill, I don’t know. Anyway</p>
<p>Stera Bosa was delighted & hung up happy.</p>
<p> I told her not to write you</p>
<p>about the 15<sup>th</sup>, as I was getting a letter</p>
<p>off to you today on the subject of the</p>
<p>party. Everything is arranged for</p>
<p>that night. Tom, Himself (the mighty</p>
<p>man) & I will have supper with</p>
<p>the Waltons & a few friends will come</p>
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<p>in later for a mug (mugs, if I</p>
<p>knew ‘em) o’ beer &</p>
<p>some cheese. Hans Mahler will be</p>
<p>one of us. I’ll either meet you at</p>
<p>your ferry or see that you are met.</p>
<p>Say where & make it in time for</p>
<p>a quarter after six supper at</p>
<p>Stera’s. Will bring you to Wycherley</p>
<p>for the night, but if you feel you</p>
<p>should go back early on Sunday</p>
<p>not a feeling will be hurt. There is</p>
<p>no question of your seeming ungra-</p>
<p>cious in declining an invitation. I’d</p>
<p>like to have a look at your exhibit</p>
<p>with you if it can be managed—though</p>
<p>I’d be a pest with my questions.</p>
<p> The prospects of Holt’s is</p>
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<p>in later for a mug (mugs, if I</p>
<p>knew ‘em) o’ beer &</p>
<p>some cheese. Hans Mahler will be</p>
<p>one of us. I’ll either meet you at</p>
<p>your ferry or see that you are met.</p>
<p>Say where & make it in time for</p>
<p>a quarter after six supper at</p>
<p>Stera’s. Will bring you to Wycherley</p>
<p>for the night, but if you feel you</p>
<p>should go back early on Sunday</p>
<p>not a feeling will be hurt. There is</p>
<p>no question of your seeming ungra-</p>
<p>cious in declining an invitation. I’d</p>
<p>like to have a look at your exhibit</p>
<p>with you if it can be managed—though</p>
<p>I’d be a pest with my questions.</p>
<p> The prospects of Holt’s is</p>
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<p>so lovely ? the prints are worth</p>
<p>framing. I wish it could be handled</p>
<p>by someone that knows what to do with</p>
<ol>
<li>The delicacy of the ? is</li>
</ol>
<p>enchanting. Always your trees completely</p>
<p>satisfy & uplift me. Rotherburg I</p>
<p>printed years ago & remember it as one of</p>
<p>the most picturesque towns in ?.</p>
<p>the fact that such beauty is being violated</p>
<p>hurts me almost more than the loss</p>
<p>of heaven life. Stera is coming</p>
<p>down tomorrow & I’ll show her the manual</p>
<p>& ask for her suggestions.</p>
<p> A word about her. She is a</p>
<p>Lithuanian Jewess, her father is a</p>
<p>small “east side” shop keeper poor</p>
<p>& obscure. she has no formal ed-</p>
<p>ucation—has sprung from nothing &</p>
<p>nowhere. But she began to attract</p>
<p>attention from the intelligence some</p>
<p>years ago, she is such a darling &</p>
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<p>so lovely ? the prints are worth</p>
<p>framing. I wish it could be handled</p>
<p>by someone that knows what to do with</p>
<ol>
<li>The delicacy of the ? is</li>
</ol>
<p>enchanting. Always your trees completely</p>
<p>satisfy & uplift me. Rotherburg I</p>
<p>printed years ago & remember it as one of</p>
<p>the most picturesque towns in ?.</p>
<p>the fact that such beauty is being violated</p>
<p>hurts me almost more than the loss</p>
<p>of heaven life. Stera is coming</p>
<p>down tomorrow & I’ll show her the manual</p>
<p>& ask for her suggestions.</p>
<p> A word about her. She is a</p>
<p>Lithuanian Jewess, her father is a</p>
<p>small “east side” shop keeper poor</p>
<p>& obscure. she has no formal ed-</p>
<p>ucation—has sprung from nothing &</p>
<p>nowhere. But she began to attract</p>
<p>attention from the intelligence some</p>
<p>years ago, she is such a darling &</p>
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<p>so real & so pretty. She was</p>
<p>taken up a good deal by “sassiety”</p>
<p>but put on the brakes in favor</p>
<p>of hard work & people that count.</p>
<p>The husband is a travelling salesman,</p>
<p>who will seem rather undesirable to you</p>
<p>on a 1<sup>st</sup> meeting but who— he’s without</p>
<p>culture or artistic sense, even without</p>
<p>good English—has a lot of the good</p>
<p>earth in him & is sound to the core.</p>
<p> Your tribute to Mahler is a beautiful</p>
<p>one. Major Kincaid (of New York</p>
<p>political fame) told me AE was the</p>
<p>most Christ-like man he ever knew.</p>
<p>Yes, Mahler has that inner light. No</p>
<p>it wasn’t Fogarty—dear no, who</p>
<p>insisted on orthodoxy.</p>
<p> A crowd is on the way</p>
<p>down from Norfolk to see Holts</p>
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<p>so real & so pretty. She was</p>
<p>taken up a good deal by “sassiety”</p>
<p>but put on the brakes in favor</p>
<p>of hard work & people that count.</p>
<p>The husband is a travelling salesman,</p>
<p>who will seem rather undesirable to you</p>
<p>on a 1<sup>st</sup> meeting but who— he’s without</p>
<p>culture or artistic sense, even without</p>
<p>good English—has a lot of the good</p>
<p>earth in him & is sound to the core.</p>
<p> Your tribute to Mahler is a beautiful</p>
<p>one. Major Kincaid (of New York</p>
<p>political fame) told me AE was the</p>
<p>most Christ-like man he ever knew.</p>
<p>Yes, Mahler has that inner light. No</p>
<p>it wasn’t Fogarty—dear no, who</p>
<p>insisted on orthodoxy.</p>
<p> A crowd is on the way</p>
<p>down from Norfolk to see Holts</p>
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<p>after your exhibit is over, I expect</p>
<p>you to vanish into the air like the</p>
<p>Cheshire cat, or like Robert Frost.</p>
<p> Yours</p>
<p> Mary L</p>
<p>Your saying that you are “un-</p>
<p>troubled by an education”</p>
<p>deserves framing as much as one</p>
<p>of you cuts.</p>
<p> Bless you for being so kind</p>
<p>? those ? in the Lawrence</p>
<p>article! I still feel dreadful</p>
<p>bad about them.</p>
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<p>after your exhibit is over, I expect</p>
<p>you to vanish into the air like the</p>
<p>Cheshire cat, or like Robert Frost.</p>
<p> Yours</p>
<p> Mary L</p>
<p>Your saying that you are “un-</p>
<p>troubled by an education”</p>
<p>deserves framing as much as one</p>
<p>of you cuts.</p>
<p> Bless you for being so kind</p>
<p>? those ? in the Lawrence</p>
<p>article! I still feel dreadful</p>
<p>bad about them.</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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1932-1950
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, November 7, 1941 (Ms2017-001)
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1941-11-07
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<p>Oct. 7 1941</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J. Lankes:</p>
<p> I doubt if you ? from my pen</p>
<p>anything can flow ? perspiration but</p>
<p>I want to have a try at catching you before</p>
<p>you leave for the north.</p>
<p> What is this about your</p>
<p>eyes? I am very much concerned</p>
<p>indeed, for your plan to consult the</p>
<p>Dartmouth oculists suggests that you</p>
<p>must be alarmed. What seems to be</p>
<p>the trouble? Your eyes & your hands</p>
<p>must be kept safe from harm whatever</p>
<p>happens to the rest of you! Do let</p>
<p>me know what you hear at the clinic</p>
<p>I have a ? old friend in</p>
<p>Dartmouth—Ambrose W Vernon,</p>
<p>who had one of the first chairs I think the</p>
<p>first chair—of biography out west</p>
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<p>Oct. 7 1941</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J. Lankes:</p>
<p> I doubt if you ? from my pen</p>
<p>anything can flow ? perspiration but</p>
<p>I want to have a try at catching you before</p>
<p>you leave for the north.</p>
<p> What is this about your</p>
<p>eyes? I am very much concerned</p>
<p>indeed, for your plan to consult the</p>
<p>Dartmouth oculists suggests that you</p>
<p>must be alarmed. What seems to be</p>
<p>the trouble? Your eyes & your hands</p>
<p>must be kept safe from harm whatever</p>
<p>happens to the rest of you! Do let</p>
<p>me know what you hear at the clinic</p>
<p>I have a ? old friend in</p>
<p>Dartmouth—Ambrose W Vernon,</p>
<p>who had one of the first chairs I think the</p>
<p>first chair—of biography out west</p>
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<p>somewhere & then taught the same</p>
<p>subject for years in Hanover. He began</p>
<p>as a minister but I hope out grew</p>
<p>his orthodoxy. If you are lonely or</p>
<p>want to know whats what about every</p>
<p>thing, call him up & tell him I am</p>
<p>introducing you.</p>
<p> Alas, these two inches on your maps</p>
<p>are very deceptive. It’s a long way from</p>
<p>Hanover to Brunswick. But I trust</p>
<p>the distance won’t disway you. The Coffins</p>
<p>are the people best fitted to cheer you</p>
<p>up & fill you with fresh inspiration.</p>
<p>Their perfect naturalness is enchanting.</p>
<p>Do arrange with Mr Coffin to have one</p>
<p>of his vacant houses to “bach” in next</p>
<p>summer. I am tremendously keen</p>
<p>on having you join out colony.</p>
<p> Himself & I want very much</p>
<p>to have you spend a couple of days</p>
<p>with us while your exhibit is going on.</p>
<p>the first weekend in November we</p>
<p>are full up with boys from Charlottesville</p>
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<p>somewhere & then taught the same</p>
<p>subject for years in Hanover. He began</p>
<p>as a minister but I hope out grew</p>
<p>his orthodoxy. If you are lonely or</p>
<p>want to know whats what about every</p>
<p>thing, call him up & tell him I am</p>
<p>introducing you.</p>
<p> Alas, these two inches on your maps</p>
<p>are very deceptive. It’s a long way from</p>
<p>Hanover to Brunswick. But I trust</p>
<p>the distance won’t disway you. The Coffins</p>
<p>are the people best fitted to cheer you</p>
<p>up & fill you with fresh inspiration.</p>
<p>Their perfect naturalness is enchanting.</p>
<p>Do arrange with Mr Coffin to have one</p>
<p>of his vacant houses to “bach” in next</p>
<p>summer. I am tremendously keen</p>
<p>on having you join out colony.</p>
<p> Himself & I want very much</p>
<p>to have you spend a couple of days</p>
<p>with us while your exhibit is going on.</p>
<p>the first weekend in November we</p>
<p>are full up with boys from Charlottesville</p>
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<p>But will not the second week end</p>
<p>be a good time for you to be here?</p>
<p>Can’t you come on Friday the</p>
<p>7<sup>th</sup>? and perhaps you’d stay over</p>
<p>into the following weeka bit & do some</p>
<p>sketching to “bach” in our guest house.</p>
<p>(I’m feeding folk at night & on Saturday</p>
<p>& Sunday when my Hugh’s school</p>
<p>Malay is here. So even if they’re poor</p>
<p>cooks they don’t starve).</p>
<p> About Mr Hans Mahler, I shall</p>
<p>be delighted to look him up. I am so</p>
<p>glad you have told me about him.</p>
<p>I must also see that he meets my</p>
<p>friend, Fred Lang, whose story I should</p>
<p>like to tell you some day. He’s one of</p>
<p>the rarest, finest persons & I know a few</p>
<p>I’m afraid Mr Mahler won’t find</p>
<p>me at all worth while, as I’m not</p>
<p>a bit musical. But at least I can</p>
<p>see that he meets some people who</p>
<p>will interest him.</p>
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<p>But will not the second week end</p>
<p>be a good time for you to be here?</p>
<p>Can’t you come on Friday the</p>
<p>7<sup>th</sup>? and perhaps you’d stay over</p>
<p>into the following weeka bit & do some</p>
<p>sketching to “bach” in our guest house.</p>
<p>(I’m feeding folk at night & on Saturday</p>
<p>& Sunday when my Hugh’s school</p>
<p>Malay is here. So even if they’re poor</p>
<p>cooks they don’t starve).</p>
<p> About Mr Hans Mahler, I shall</p>
<p>be delighted to look him up. I am so</p>
<p>glad you have told me about him.</p>
<p>I must also see that he meets my</p>
<p>friend, Fred Lang, whose story I should</p>
<p>like to tell you some day. He’s one of</p>
<p>the rarest, finest persons & I know a few</p>
<p>I’m afraid Mr Mahler won’t find</p>
<p>me at all worth while, as I’m not</p>
<p>a bit musical. But at least I can</p>
<p>see that he meets some people who</p>
<p>will interest him.</p>
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<p>If he’s in Briston Hardin School</p>
<p>he won’t need this help however, as</p>
<p>the Hardin teachers rapidly become known</p>
<p>here. You know my son in law is</p>
<p>Henry Conles Whitehead director of W. T.</p>
<ol>
<li>R. programs & orchestra leader [Ele?]</li>
</ol>
<p>You hear his music, don’t you, on the radio?</p>
<p>He & Mahler must meet.</p>
<p>I have much more to say but</p>
<p>must get out & hunt a freezer</p>
<p>Cordially</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>Louis wanted us out for Sunday breakfast</p>
<p>a week ago but I had just fallen</p>
<p>off a chair & couldn’t go. I have</p>
<p>a habit of falling all over the place.</p>
<p>Do you remember Æ’s saying that</p>
<p>all true poetry was matter on the mount</p>
<p>of ? I don’t know</p>
<p>Oliver Fogarty, do you? He adores</p>
<p>the memory of Æ.</p>
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<p>If he’s in Briston Hardin School</p>
<p>he won’t need this help however, as</p>
<p>the Hardin teachers rapidly become known</p>
<p>here. You know my son in law is</p>
<p>Henry Conles Whitehead director of W. T.</p>
<ol>
<li>R. programs & orchestra leader [Ele?]</li>
</ol>
<p>You hear his music, don’t you, on the radio?</p>
<p>He & Mahler must meet.</p>
<p>I have much more to say but</p>
<p>must get out & hunt a freezer</p>
<p>Cordially</p>
<p>Mary Leitch</p>
<p>Louis wanted us out for Sunday breakfast</p>
<p>a week ago but I had just fallen</p>
<p>off a chair & couldn’t go. I have</p>
<p>a habit of falling all over the place.</p>
<p>Do you remember Æ’s saying that</p>
<p>all true poetry was matter on the mount</p>
<p>of ? I don’t know</p>
<p>Oliver Fogarty, do you? He adores</p>
<p>the memory of Æ.</p>
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<p>P.S.</p>
<p>A young dr. in Norfolk was ordered to</p>
<p>Rehrjavik & offered to take anything</p>
<p>to my sister I might wish to send. I</p>
<p>searched the town frantically for the elegy</p>
<p>your elegy. Not a book store had</p>
<p>it! This burns me up. A prophet in</p>
<p>his own country, verily. I found</p>
<p>I might get it in time by morning ? L.,</p>
<p>then the dr. got orders not to go</p>
<p>to Rehkjavik.</p>
<p>Why don’t you put some</p>
<p>copies at the Beacon & Freeman’s</p>
<p>to be sold on the commission plan?</p>
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<p>P.S.</p>
<p>A young dr. in Norfolk was ordered to</p>
<p>Rehrjavik & offered to take anything</p>
<p>to my sister I might wish to send. I</p>
<p>searched the town frantically for the elegy</p>
<p>your elegy. Not a book store had</p>
<p>it! This burns me up. A prophet in</p>
<p>his own country, verily. I found</p>
<p>I might get it in time by morning ? L.,</p>
<p>then the dr. got orders not to go</p>
<p>to Rehkjavik.</p>
<p>Why don’t you put some</p>
<p>copies at the Beacon & Freeman’s</p>
<p>to be sold on the commission plan?</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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1932-1950
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<p>Dear Mr Lankes:</p>
<p> I think with the honors</p>
<p>that are crowding upon you (or even</p>
<p>if they did not) you are worthy to be</p>
<p>the guest of honor anywhere although</p>
<p>your coat were patched—which, it</p>
<p>seems, it is not.</p>
<p> No doubt Mr Frost will be</p>
<p>in full panoply, but he has to</p>
<p>appear on the platform. Most of</p>
<p>the men will not wear evening</p>
<p>dress. On Tuesday we have</p>
<p>planned nothing all day but shall</p>
<p>let you & Mr Frost spend it in</p>
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<p>Dear Mr Lankes:</p>
<p> I think with the honors</p>
<p>that are crowding upon you (or even</p>
<p>if they did not) you are worthy to be</p>
<p>the guest of honor anywhere although</p>
<p>your coat were patched—which, it</p>
<p>seems, it is not.</p>
<p> No doubt Mr Frost will be</p>
<p>in full panoply, but he has to</p>
<p>appear on the platform. Most of</p>
<p>the men will not wear evening</p>
<p>dress. On Tuesday we have</p>
<p>planned nothing all day but shall</p>
<p>let you & Mr Frost spend it in</p>
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<p>recovery from the all-night session</p>
<p>you will doubtless be in for together (ac-</p>
<p>cording to your prognostications & his</p>
<p>reputation). Sunday night we are</p>
<p>having a few friends for supper to</p>
<p>meet our two sons, but the meal</p>
<p>will be buffet & nobody will dress.</p>
<p>so—patches or no patches—you are</p>
<p>safe.</p>
<p> Not a word yet about trains, nor</p>
<p>do we know whether Miss Lesley is</p>
<p>coming. I hope for word tomorrow.</p>
<p>I’m glad to have your phone number.</p>
<p> “Lynnhaven” is one word & “near</p>
<p>Norfolk” is not necessary.</p>
<p> I wrote Mrs Trigg & asked her to let</p>
<p>you know about ferries etc. but I shall</p>
<p>send you word too, to be sure.</p>
<p> Cordially,</p>
<p> Mary Leitch</p>
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<p>recovery from the all-night session</p>
<p>you will doubtless be in for together (ac-</p>
<p>cording to your prognostications & his</p>
<p>reputation). Sunday night we are</p>
<p>having a few friends for supper to</p>
<p>meet our two sons, but the meal</p>
<p>will be buffet & nobody will dress.</p>
<p>so—patches or no patches—you are</p>
<p>safe.</p>
<p> Not a word yet about trains, nor</p>
<p>do we know whether Miss Lesley is</p>
<p>coming. I hope for word tomorrow.</p>
<p>I’m glad to have your phone number.</p>
<p> “Lynnhaven” is one word & “near</p>
<p>Norfolk” is not necessary.</p>
<p> I wrote Mrs Trigg & asked her to let</p>
<p>you know about ferries etc. but I shall</p>
<p>send you word too, to be sure.</p>
<p> Cordially,</p>
<p> Mary Leitch</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, April 3, 1941 (Ms2017-001)
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1941-04-03
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<p>Tuesday</p>
<p>I am writing in the car, after</p>
<p>finding in our mail box Mrs Morrisons reply</p>
<p>about trains. She says she can’t tell</p>
<p>when Mr Frost can leave Richmond</p>
<p>& that we should consult his hostess-to-be.</p>
<p>Will you drop a line to Mrs Wm Trigg,</p>
<p>15 Tapoan Road, Richmond, & tell her you</p>
<p>want to connect up with Mr Frost & ask her to</p>
<p>let you know his train in time for you to</p>
<p>meet him? I will write her also & explain the</p>
<p>situation. Be sure to stay over Sunday.</p>
<p>Yrs hastily but expectantly, M. S. Leitch</p>
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<p>Tuesday</p>
<p>I am writing in the car, after</p>
<p>finding in our mail box Mrs Morrisons reply</p>
<p>about trains. She says she can’t tell</p>
<p>when Mr Frost can leave Richmond</p>
<p>& that we should consult his hostess-to-be.</p>
<p>Will you drop a line to Mrs Wm Trigg,</p>
<p>15 Tapoan Road, Richmond, & tell her you</p>
<p>want to connect up with Mr Frost & ask her to</p>
<p>let you know his train in time for you to</p>
<p>meet him? I will write her also & explain the</p>
<p>situation. Be sure to stay over Sunday.</p>
<p>Yrs hastily but expectantly, M. S. Leitch</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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1932-1950
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, April 1, 1941 (Ms2017-001)
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1941-04-01
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<p>Dear Mr Lankes:</p>
<p> Your plans leave one</p>
<p>breathless. And you don’t look over</p>
<p>strong. I’m glad I invited you</p>
<p>over before this latest honor was</p>
<p>paid you else I doubt if I should</p>
<p>have had the courage. Its just</p>
<p>splendid . You have won a recog-</p>
<p>nition that gives one hope of</p>
<p>America, artistically speaking.</p>
<p> I will write you about trains</p>
<p>or rather ferries. I am sending</p>
<p>by air to ask Mr. Morrison what</p>
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<p>Dear Mr Lankes:</p>
<p> Your plans leave one</p>
<p>breathless. And you don’t look over</p>
<p>strong. I’m glad I invited you</p>
<p>over before this latest honor was</p>
<p>paid you else I doubt if I should</p>
<p>have had the courage. Its just</p>
<p>splendid . You have won a recog-</p>
<p>nition that gives one hope of</p>
<p>America, artistically speaking.</p>
<p> I will write you about trains</p>
<p>or rather ferries. I am sending</p>
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<p>train Mr Frost will take—the 9</p>
<p>am or two pm from Richmond.</p>
<p>I infer from what you say that you</p>
<p>can come & by whatever boat he</p>
<p>will connect with on Saturday. He</p>
<p>reads in Richmond Friday night</p>
<p>& in Norfolk at 8:15 next evening.</p>
<p>Be sure to plan to stay at least</p>
<p>till Monday, as Mr Frost is doing.</p>
<p> I’ll let you know the minute</p>
<p>I hear about Mr Frost’s train.</p>
<p> Faithfully, & most happy</p>
<p>anticipation of your visit on Himselfs</p>
<p>part as well as mine,</p>
<p> Mary Sinton Leitch</p>
<p>Of course we’ll meet you at the ferry on</p>
<p>the Norolk side. I didn’t know there was anyone</p>
<p>in Va. who could afford a taxi for ten miles!</p>
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<p>train Mr Frost will take—the 9</p>
<p>am or two pm from Richmond.</p>
<p>I infer from what you say that you</p>
<p>can come & by whatever boat he</p>
<p>will connect with on Saturday. He</p>
<p>reads in Richmond Friday night</p>
<p>& in Norfolk at 8:15 next evening.</p>
<p>Be sure to plan to stay at least</p>
<p>till Monday, as Mr Frost is doing.</p>
<p> I’ll let you know the minute</p>
<p>I hear about Mr Frost’s train.</p>
<p> Faithfully, & most happy</p>
<p>anticipation of your visit on Himselfs</p>
<p>part as well as mine,</p>
<p> Mary Sinton Leitch</p>
<p>Of course we’ll meet you at the ferry on</p>
<p>the Norolk side. I didn’t know there was anyone</p>
<p>in Va. who could afford a taxi for ten miles!</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, March 25, 1941 (Ms2017-001)
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1941-03-25
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<p>Tuesday</p>
<p>March 1941</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> I write in great haste,</p>
<p>as a young aviator who is</p>
<p>calling will take this note.</p>
<p> Louis wants you to</p>
<p>stay with him for the Coffee</p>
<p>visit & I have just written</p>
<p>him that it shall be as you</p>
<p>two decide. As long as you</p>
<p>surely come, either here or there</p>
<p>is all right.</p>
<p> I had a visit from</p>
<p>Mr Coffee today. He & his wife</p>
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<p>Tuesday</p>
<p>March 1941</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear J.J.:</p>
<p> I write in great haste,</p>
<p>as a young aviator who is</p>
<p>calling will take this note.</p>
<p> Louis wants you to</p>
<p>stay with him for the Coffee</p>
<p>visit & I have just written</p>
<p>him that it shall be as you</p>
<p>two decide. As long as you</p>
<p>surely come, either here or there</p>
<p>is all right.</p>
<p> I had a visit from</p>
<p>Mr Coffee today. He & his wife</p>
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<p>will be here on April second. He</p>
<p>will read at the Noreau’s Club</p>
<p>on that Thursday afternoon at 4</p>
<p>oclock. I’d rather have had the</p>
<p>affair at night but my Episcapal</p>
<p>friends were all horified at the</p>
<p>idea, as there is, it seems, a very</p>
<p>special church service at night.</p>
<p>You are to have supper at Louis’</p>
<p>home after the show. the Coffees</p>
<p>will stay with us till the 4<sup>th</sup> so do</p>
<p>plan to do likewise. If you go to</p>
<p>Louis on the 2<sup>nd</sup> & he puts you out.</p>
<p>Next day, spend the following night</p>
<p>anyway at “Wycherley.” Or not?</p>
<p> Yours,</p>
<p> Mary L</p>
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<p>will be here on April second. He</p>
<p>will read at the Noreau’s Club</p>
<p>on that Thursday afternoon at 4</p>
<p>oclock. I’d rather have had the</p>
<p>affair at night but my Episcapal</p>
<p>friends were all horified at the</p>
<p>idea, as there is, it seems, a very</p>
<p>special church service at night.</p>
<p>You are to have supper at Louis’</p>
<p>home after the show. the Coffees</p>
<p>will stay with us till the 4<sup>th</sup> so do</p>
<p>plan to do likewise. If you go to</p>
<p>Louis on the 2<sup>nd</sup> & he puts you out.</p>
<p>Next day, spend the following night</p>
<p>anyway at “Wycherley.” Or not?</p>
<p> Yours,</p>
<p> Mary L</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
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1932-1950
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, March 1941 (Ms2017-001)
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1941-03
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Letters
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1957
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<p>Easter Sunday</p>
<p>1940</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Mr. Lankes:</p>
<p> Stera Bosa (Mrs. Frank</p>
<p>Walton, 636 Redgate Ave, Norfolk)</p>
<p>Pres of our art league is ordering</p>
<p>les & we have talked ? with various</p>
<p>members of her board the matter</p>
<p>of your woodcuts. They are</p>
<p>very eager to exhibit them in the</p>
<p>fall. At present & on into May,</p>
<p>the space in the museum is</p>
<p>filled. Anyway, even were it available</p>
<p>then, Mrs Walter says, would be</p>
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<p>Easter Sunday</p>
<p>1940</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Mr. Lankes:</p>
<p> Stera Bosa (Mrs. Frank</p>
<p>Walton, 636 Redgate Ave, Norfolk)</p>
<p>Pres of our art league is ordering</p>
<p>les & we have talked ? with various</p>
<p>members of her board the matter</p>
<p>of your woodcuts. They are</p>
<p>very eager to exhibit them in the</p>
<p>fall. At present & on into May,</p>
<p>the space in the museum is</p>
<p>filled. Anyway, even were it available</p>
<p>then, Mrs Walter says, would be</p>
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<p>a most unsuitable home to show the</p>
<p>pictures. Very few persons visit the</p>
<p>exhibits after this date & to put your</p>
<p>pictures on display so late would not</p>
<p>be to your advantage.</p>
<p> To show in our library is,</p>
<p>is seems, not possible. There are</p>
<p>no exhibits held there: theres no</p>
<p>space, as far as we know. But</p>
<p>in the museum you will find</p>
<p>your work will be seen not only</p>
<p>by the art group but by the</p>
<p>general public. All the intel-</p>
<p>legensia of Norfolk flock there.</p>
<p>We’ll just let Mrs Walton</p>
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<p>a most unsuitable home to show the</p>
<p>pictures. Very few persons visit the</p>
<p>exhibits after this date & to put your</p>
<p>pictures on display so late would not</p>
<p>be to your advantage.</p>
<p> To show in our library is,</p>
<p>is seems, not possible. There are</p>
<p>no exhibits held there: theres no</p>
<p>space, as far as we know. But</p>
<p>in the museum you will find</p>
<p>your work will be seen not only</p>
<p>by the art group but by the</p>
<p>general public. All the intel-</p>
<p>legensia of Norfolk flock there.</p>
&
<p>We’ll just let Mrs Walton</p>
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<p>know what’s what about the</p>
<p>autumn; also whether you</p>
<p>could let her have enough of your</p>
<p>woodcuts—or paintings also--to</p>
<p>make up say forty pictures.</p>
<p>This would complete the number</p>
<p>needed for a one-man show.</p>
<p>With fewer pictures, how about</p>
<p>exhibiting someone else’s work</p>
<p>with yours, though I think the</p>
<p>other way (all Lankes) would</p>
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<p>know what’s what about the</p>
<p>autumn; also whether you</p>
<p>could let her have enough of your</p>
<p>woodcuts—or paintings also--to</p>
<p>make up say forty pictures.</p>
<p>This would complete the number</p>
<p>needed for a one-man show.</p>
<p>With fewer pictures, how about</p>
<p>exhibiting someone else’s work</p>
<p>with yours, though I think the</p>
<p>other way (all Lankes) would</p>
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<p>be very preferable.</p>
<p> I must run. This is a</p>
<p>servantless day & I hear Himself</p>
<p>setting the table.</p>
<p> It was delightful having</p>
<p>you with us together with Mr.</p>
<p>Frost. Come again!</p>
<p> Cordially,</p>
<p> Mary Leitch</p>
<p>I am really very keen to see</p>
<p>the Country Churchyard woodcuts.</p>
<p>I shall have the Frost farm house</p>
<p>framed this week.</p>
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<p>be very preferable.</p>
<p> I must run. This is a</p>
<p>servantless day & I hear Himself</p>
<p>setting the table.</p>
<p> It was delightful having</p>
<p>you with us together with Mr.</p>
<p>Frost. Come again!</p>
<p> Cordially,</p>
<p> Mary Leitch</p>
<p>I am really very keen to see</p>
<p>the Country Churchyard woodcuts.</p>
<p>I shall have the Frost farm house</p>
<p>framed this week.</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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1932-1950
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, March 24, 1940 (Ms2017-001)
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1940-03-24
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<p>July 13 1939</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Mr. Lankes:</p>
<p> Would you by any chance</p>
<p>care to use our guest cottage— the</p>
<p>“bee house” where you saw us ?</p>
<p>down after our holocaust— for a</p>
<p>couple of weeks during August?</p>
<p>The only reason I hesitate to offer it is</p>
<p>that my husband & I shall not be</p>
<p>here to ? your neighborhood.</p>
<p>and I don’t like to think of missing</p>
<p>the pleasure of having you to close at</p>
<p>hand. We have to go away. I have</p>
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<p>July 13 1939</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Mr. Lankes:</p>
<p> Would you by any chance</p>
<p>care to use our guest cottage— the</p>
<p>“bee house” where you saw us ?</p>
<p>down after our holocaust— for a</p>
<p>couple of weeks during August?</p>
<p>The only reason I hesitate to offer it is</p>
<p>that my husband & I shall not be</p>
<p>here to ? your neighborhood.</p>
<p>and I don’t like to think of missing</p>
<p>the pleasure of having you to close at</p>
<p>hand. We have to go away. I have</p>
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<p>been ill— overcome by heat, the doctor</p>
<p>thinks & we go to Maine on July 29<sup>th</sup></p>
<p>But my son, Jack , will be at home</p>
<p>until the first of September as he is</p>
<p>taking a course at ? school. It</p>
<p>would mean a great deal to him</p>
<p>to have you in the cottage, I know, as</p>
<p>“Wycherley” Will be awfully lonely for</p>
<p>the boy. But he prefers to be at home</p>
<p>rather than to board somewhere in town.</p>
<p>He has a good motor boat and would be</p>
<p>proud to take you fishing.</p>
<p> My daughter, her husband, and little</p>
<p>girl, are in the cottage now, so it</p>
<p>is in full running order. It</p>
<p>has plumbing and electric light,</p>
<p>a kerosene stove, and at present</p>
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<p>been ill— overcome by heat, the doctor</p>
<p>thinks & we go to Maine on July 29<sup>th</sup></p>
<p>But my son, Jack , will be at home</p>
<p>until the first of September as he is</p>
<p>taking a course at ? school. It</p>
<p>would mean a great deal to him</p>
<p>to have you in the cottage, I know, as</p>
<p>“Wycherley” Will be awfully lonely for</p>
<p>the boy. But he prefers to be at home</p>
<p>rather than to board somewhere in town.</p>
<p>He has a good motor boat and would be</p>
<p>proud to take you fishing.</p>
<p> My daughter, her husband, and little</p>
<p>girl, are in the cottage now, so it</p>
<p>is in full running order. It</p>
<p>has plumbing and electric light,</p>
<p>a kerosene stove, and at present</p>
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<p>a ? Frigidaire. This I think I</p>
<p>could maybe for another month if</p>
<p>you come. I must warn you</p>
<p>that the “kernel” is hot. It seems</p>
<p>to me especially so, perhaps, in contrast</p>
<p>to our new house, which is so well</p>
<p>insulated. But there are several</p>
<p>rooms to choose from to help it</p>
<p>so perhaps you would not mind the</p>
<p>heat. If you have a friend</p>
<p>who would care to come with you,</p>
<p>or any of your family, just</p>
<p>please feel free to ask them. There</p>
<p>are three beds. There’s enough</p>
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<p>a ? Frigidaire. This I think I</p>
<p>could maybe for another month if</p>
<p>you come. I must warn you</p>
<p>that the “kernel” is hot. It seems</p>
<p>to me especially so, perhaps, in contrast</p>
<p>to our new house, which is so well</p>
<p>insulated. But there are several</p>
<p>rooms to choose from to help it</p>
<p>so perhaps you would not mind the</p>
<p>heat. If you have a friend</p>
<p>who would care to come with you,</p>
<p>or any of your family, just</p>
<p>please feel free to ask them. There</p>
<p>are three beds. There’s enough</p>
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<p>china (odds and ends, but “eatable on”) and</p>
<p>there are pots and pans and bed linen. You’d</p>
<p>need to bring only your clothes.</p>
<p> I am eager to hear you see</p>
<p>the Lankes display on our walls!</p>
<p>Your woodcuts give distinctions to</p>
<p>our living room. How I bless you</p>
<p>for giving them to us!</p>
<p> Cordially,</p>
<p> Mary Sinton Leitch</p>
<p>I am disengaged and distressed to learn that</p>
<p>Margaret Jaffe has given Christopher the</p>
<p>name of Davis. For her to take the name</p>
<p>is all right, but then to put the final</p>
<p>touch of robbing Louis of his son</p>
<p>seems to me cruel.</p>
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<p>china (odds and ends, but “eatable on”) and</p>
<p>there are pots and pans and bed linen. You’d</p>
<p>need to bring only your clothes.</p>
<p> I am eager to hear you see</p>
<p>the Lankes display on our walls!</p>
<p>Your woodcuts give distinctions to</p>
<p>our living room. How I bless you</p>
<p>for giving them to us!</p>
<p> Cordially,</p>
<p> Mary Sinton Leitch</p>
<p>I am disengaged and distressed to learn that</p>
<p>Margaret Jaffe has given Christopher the</p>
<p>name of Davis. For her to take the name</p>
<p>is all right, but then to put the final</p>
<p>touch of robbing Louis of his son</p>
<p>seems to me cruel.</p>
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Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001)
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Authors, American--20th Century
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954
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1932-1950
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Letters
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Ms2017_001_LeitchMary_
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Letter, Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes, July 13, 1939 (Ms2017-001)
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1939-07-13
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<p>Lynnhaven, VA</p>
<p>June 18 1932</p>
<p> </p>
<p>My dear Mr. Lankes:</p>
<p>I am the Mrs. Leitch to whose home in the country</p>
<p>you were forcibly brought one day by Louis Jaffe— and then you</p>
<p>were polite enough to insist afterwards that though you had</p>
<p>come against your will, you had had a good time! Do you</p>
<p>remember?</p>
<p>I am getting out with the Dial press in the fall</p>
<p>an anthology of the important contemporary VA poets. And I</p>
<p>think it would add much charm to my volume if I could have a</p>
<p>cut of yours as a frontspiece. I have so very little to spend</p>
<p>(I suspect you have heard such a cry before, these days!) that</p>
<p>I should be willing to use something you have on hand, for you</p>
<p>see in a collection of the kind I am making, almost any rural</p>
<p>scene would so as well as another. I love the negro cabin</p>
<p>with the crooked fence. Could that be used? Or what would</p>
<p>you suggest?</p>
<p>The enclosed will be clearer to you than it is to</p>
<p>me, but I presume MacVeagh means that the picture that is to</p>
<p>be printed within covers shall also be shown on the jacket?</p>
<p>Would this cost extra? Or should I have the use of the one</p>
<p>cut for both jacket and frontspiece? I don’t know the usage</p>
<p>in such matters at all.</p>
<p>May I hear from you at your very earliest convenience?</p>
<p>For you will see from the letter I send, that Mr. MacVeagh wants</p>
<p>to get things moving.</p>
<p>With deep admiration for your work, and best wishes</p>
<p>for a successful summer,</p>
<p>Mary Sinton Leitch</p>
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
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The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes.
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes.</a>
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