BRACERS Record Detail for 132768

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1846
Box no.
16.80
Source if not BR
Turcon, Sheila
Recipient(s)
Turcon, Sheila
Sender(s)
Tait, Katharine
Date
1987-2020/
Notes, topics or text

In this series of 77, mostly handwritten letters and post cards (and 10 Christmas cards), Tait writes about her memories of Alice Crunden, her niece Anne Russell, sister-in-law Susan Russell, Richard Jencks from Fallen Leaf Lake Lodge, and the deaths of her son David Tait and her ex-husband, Charles Tait. She recollected throwing out Patricia ("Peter") Russell's letters to her after keeping them for many years.

Also included are:her opinion of Ray Monk as both a biographer and a person, Nick Griffin's Selected Letters, and Deborah Gorham, who wanted to write a book about Dora Russell. Tait would have liked Miranda Seymour to become her mother's biographer. Tait met Monk several times, and many letters discuss him. She also writes about the Blakeway television interviews and members of the Russell Editorial Project who came to visit. As the renovations of Carn Voel went on she kept Turcon informed of progress.

There is detailed calendaring of the letters in a finding-aid in the first folder.

Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
No
Record no.
132768
Record created
Jan 09, 2023
Record last modified
Jan 11, 2023
Created/last modified by
blackwk