Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 (novelist, essayist and translator)
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter, 24 January 1959, to Vernon Watkins from Willa Muir
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1488
Scope and Contents
The letter in Muir's own hand, and signed, is dated 24 January 1959, Priory Cottage, Swaffham Prior, Cambridge, and is addressed to 'Dear Vernon Watkins'. The letter is responding to Watkins' correspondence on the death of her husband, Edwin Muir. She writes that the letter 'will be a comfort to me later, when Edwin's presence in this cottage will have ceased to emphasise his absence, as it surely must do'. She has 'been half demented [...] with grief and exhaustion'. She ends by saying that...
Dates:
1959
Letters from Edwin and Willa Muir to Morley and Flora Jamieson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2061
Content Description
This fonds consists of friendly letters and cards from Edwin and Willa Muir to their wartime lodgers Morley and Flora Jamieson: an autograph letter signed from Edwin and Willa to Flora, two autograph letters signed from Willa to Morley and Flora, a carbon-copy typed letter from Edwin to Morley and Flora, a Christmas autograph correspondence card signed from Willa to the Jamiesons' dog Jinty, and a Christmas autograph picture postcard signed from Willa. The letters were sent from Edinburgh,...
Dates:
1944-1963
Recollections of Edwin and Willa Muir
Fonds — Box Gen.2180, Volume: Gen.2180/4
Identifier: Coll-1883
Scope and Contents
Volume compiled by literary partnership, Edwin and Willa Muir.
Dates:
c1980s
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