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Author: Helene Hanff
THEIR library before they sold it.
fascinating book to read, did you know John Donne eloped with the boss’s highborn daughter and landed in the Tower for it and starved and starved and THEN got religion. my word.
Now listen, I’m enclosing a $5 bill, that Lives makes me very dissatisfied with my Angler which I bought before I met you. It’s one of those hard-faced American Classics-for-the-Masses editions, Izaak just hates it, he says he’s not going around looking like THAT for the rest of his life, so use the extra $2.50 for a nice English Angler, please.
you better watch out. i’m coming over there in 53 if ellery is renewed. i’m gonna climb up that victorian book-ladder and disturb the dust on the top shelves and everybody’s decorum. Or didn’t I ever tell you I write arty murders for Ellery Queen on television? All my scripts have artistic backgrounds—ballet, concert hall, opera—and all the suspects and corpses are cultured. Maybe I’ll do one about the rare book business in your honor, you want to be the murderer or the corpse?
hh
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36 Oakfield Court
Haslemere Road
Crouch End
London, N.8
March 24th, 1952
Dear Miss Hanff:
I hardly know how to express my thanks and feelings for the lovely box of everything to eat which you have sent me which arrived today. I have never been sent a parcel before. I really don’t think you should have done it. I can only say Thank you very much, I certainly will enjoy everything.
It was very kind of you to think of me in this way. I showed them all to Mrs. Doel, she thought they were lovely.
Again Thanking you very much, and best wishes.
Yours very sincerely,
Mary Boulton
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Marks & Co., Booksellers
84, Charing Cross Road
London, W.C.2
17th April, 1952
Miss Helene Hanff
14 East 95th Street
New York 28, New York
U.S.A.
Dear Helene, (you see I don’t care about the files any more),
You will be pleased to know we have just purchased a private library which includes a very nice copy of Walton’s Compleat Angler and hope to have it to send you next week, price approximately $2.25 and your credit balance with us is more than enough to cover it.
Your Ellery Queen scripts sound rather fun. I wish we could have the chance of seeing some of them on our TV over here—it wants livening up a bit (our TV I mean, not your script).
Nora and all here join me in sending our best wishes,
Yours faithfully,
Frank Doel
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37 Oakfield Court
Haslemere Road
Crouch End
London, N.8
Sunday, May 4th, 1952
Dear Helene,
Thanks for the parcel of dried egg received on Friday and I was very glad for same, I did mention something about eggs coming off the ration, well it just hasn’t happened so the powder was a godsend for our weekend cakes, etc. Frank is taking some to the shop to send to Cecily, as he keeps forgetting to bring home her address. I expect you know she has left the shop and is waiting to join her husband in the East.
I am enclosing a few snaps, Frank says none of them do him justice, he is much better-looking; but we just let him dream.
Sheila was home for a month’s break and we have been gadding about a bit to the seaside for day trips and sight-seeing and must now pull in our horns a bit, as the cost of transport here is terrific. It is our ambition to have a car but they are so expensive and a decent secondhand one is dearer than a new one. The new ones are being exported and there are so few for the home market some of my friends have been waiting 5 to 7 years for a new car.
Sheila is going to say a “jolly good prayer” for you so you may get your wish to come to England because the tin of bacon we had from you on Easter Monday was such a treat. So if “jolly good prayers” are answered you might have a windfall and be able to come and see us soon.
Well, so long for now and thanks once again.
Nora
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14 East 95th St.
New York City
May 11, 1952
Dear Frank:
Meant to write you the day the Angler arrived, just to thank you, the
fascinating book to read, did you know John Donne eloped with the boss’s highborn daughter and landed in the Tower for it and starved and starved and THEN got religion. my word.
Now listen, I’m enclosing a $5 bill, that Lives makes me very dissatisfied with my Angler which I bought before I met you. It’s one of those hard-faced American Classics-for-the-Masses editions, Izaak just hates it, he says he’s not going around looking like THAT for the rest of his life, so use the extra $2.50 for a nice English Angler, please.
you better watch out. i’m coming over there in 53 if ellery is renewed. i’m gonna climb up that victorian book-ladder and disturb the dust on the top shelves and everybody’s decorum. Or didn’t I ever tell you I write arty murders for Ellery Queen on television? All my scripts have artistic backgrounds—ballet, concert hall, opera—and all the suspects and corpses are cultured. Maybe I’ll do one about the rare book business in your honor, you want to be the murderer or the corpse?
hh
----
36 Oakfield Court
Haslemere Road
Crouch End
London, N.8
March 24th, 1952
Dear Miss Hanff:
I hardly know how to express my thanks and feelings for the lovely box of everything to eat which you have sent me which arrived today. I have never been sent a parcel before. I really don’t think you should have done it. I can only say Thank you very much, I certainly will enjoy everything.
It was very kind of you to think of me in this way. I showed them all to Mrs. Doel, she thought they were lovely.
Again Thanking you very much, and best wishes.
Yours very sincerely,
Mary Boulton
----
Marks & Co., Booksellers
84, Charing Cross Road
London, W.C.2
17th April, 1952
Miss Helene Hanff
14 East 95th Street
New York 28, New York
U.S.A.
Dear Helene, (you see I don’t care about the files any more),
You will be pleased to know we have just purchased a private library which includes a very nice copy of Walton’s Compleat Angler and hope to have it to send you next week, price approximately $2.25 and your credit balance with us is more than enough to cover it.
Your Ellery Queen scripts sound rather fun. I wish we could have the chance of seeing some of them on our TV over here—it wants livening up a bit (our TV I mean, not your script).
Nora and all here join me in sending our best wishes,
Yours faithfully,
Frank Doel
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37 Oakfield Court
Haslemere Road
Crouch End
London, N.8
Sunday, May 4th, 1952
Dear Helene,
Thanks for the parcel of dried egg received on Friday and I was very glad for same, I did mention something about eggs coming off the ration, well it just hasn’t happened so the powder was a godsend for our weekend cakes, etc. Frank is taking some to the shop to send to Cecily, as he keeps forgetting to bring home her address. I expect you know she has left the shop and is waiting to join her husband in the East.
I am enclosing a few snaps, Frank says none of them do him justice, he is much better-looking; but we just let him dream.
Sheila was home for a month’s break and we have been gadding about a bit to the seaside for day trips and sight-seeing and must now pull in our horns a bit, as the cost of transport here is terrific. It is our ambition to have a car but they are so expensive and a decent secondhand one is dearer than a new one. The new ones are being exported and there are so few for the home market some of my friends have been waiting 5 to 7 years for a new car.
Sheila is going to say a “jolly good prayer” for you so you may get your wish to come to England because the tin of bacon we had from you on Easter Monday was such a treat. So if “jolly good prayers” are answered you might have a windfall and be able to come and see us soon.
Well, so long for now and thanks once again.
Nora
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14 East 95th St.
New York City
May 11, 1952
Dear Frank:
Meant to write you the day the Angler arrived, just to thank you, the
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