BRACERS Record Detail for 7998

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1685
Box no.
2.71
Filed
F-39, p. 27
Source if not BR
BRPF
Recipient(s)
Flexner, Helen
Sender(s)
Donnelly, Lucy M.
Date
1934/08/01
Form of letter
AL(C)
Notes and topics

From Edith Russell's transcription when she was Edith Finch:

"I enclose a notice about Bertie's divorce. Alys talks a good deal about it, often with tears in her eyes, but her chief feeling I think concerns Dora's having the title. She is also very hard on the new young woman, Margaret Spence, repeating that she has got what she deserves. Perhaps this is natural but I could not refrain from a mild protest that she was young etc. Alys admitted that she had probably been carried away by Bertie, adding however that what she did was wrong. She says Bertie's friends report that the same Margaret is very graceless to them."

[Donnelly is mistaken in regards to the name of the "young woman"—it is not Margaret Spence, but Marjorie Spence (later Patricia Helen Spence, then Patricia Russell).]

Permission
Everyone
Record no.
7998
Record created
Apr 25, 1989
Record last modified
Apr 08, 2020
Created/last modified by
rstaple