Beschreibung:

Autograph letter signed ("Helen Thomas"), to Jack Haines ("Dear Mr. Haines"), sending him one of her husband's poetical manuscripts ("...I remember I was very sorry to say to you that Edward wrote all his poems first of all on odd little bits of paper which often he destroyed when he copied them [?] for me in a book, but I have one or two of these M.S.S. & if you would like it I would send you what I have. I send you now having it quite handy this exercise book... I know you wd like to have it & I wd like to know it is in your care...") and describing at length and with great frankness the relations between herself, her husband and Robert Frost ("...I was so interested to hear about Robert Frost & have wished & wished I could hear from him. But because he didn't write I foolishly thought that I had failed somehow & got timid of writing again. I am so glad he is doing well, how nice it would be to see him again but I feel he could not bear to see me & not Edward. For I know & always knew how at least intellectually I was unworthy I was [? sic ] to be Edward's wife, & always felt that Robert Frost's honouring Edward as he did felt sorry that he had not a fitter mate, it did not spoil my love for Robert at all, because I felt as he felt, only I have since wanted to tell him things which really cannot be told which would perhaps make him understand that Edward leaned on my love & understanding of his subtle nature & that later gave me so much pride as I felt humble in other ways..."), and confessing that she has not kept up with others of the now dispersed Dymock circle ("...I am very shy of meeting people who knew & loved & admired Edward, for they would naturally form in their minds some idea of what his wife would be like. And I am not like it at all... But I read all I can get hold of of modern poetry, but I find it so thin & poor & pretentious after Edward, or else difficult to understand..."), 7 pages, first page browned from off-setting, 8vo , Forge House, Otford, Sevenoaks, [1922