So I Have Thought of You by Penelope Fitzgerald

Author:Penelope Fitzgerald [Edited By Terence Dooley and Preface by A.S. Byatt ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007379590
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Dearest Mary – just a note, although it ought to be much more, to thank you for the lovely dinner, and then on coming back I found your birthday card, so Theale-like and comforting with all the livestock at peace for once: and your most kind present, which mustn’t be and won’t be spent without thought – but I do really need a new little radio as mine is just worn out, new batteries don’t help – so I think it will go towards that, it’s hard to work without a little music.

Thankyou 10000 times – I’ve got to go down to the Arts Council now for yet another meeting and Julian* has just rung up quite madly from Ireland, I can’t make out what he’s talking about – very ill, as usual, but, I think, really perfectly well.

Much love and many thanks

Mops.

Really it’s a great treat to have a card drawn exclusively for you – and I won’t say you shouldn’t have sent the £££ because I appreciate it so much.–

27 Bishop’s Road, N6

3 August [1995]

Dearest Mary,

I am so sorry that I’m laid low by something, possibly to do with the heat, and so are poor Thomas and Alfie – and on Saturday I am supposed to be going to Provence with Tina and family, so am trying to get better, so as not to be too much of a nuisance! We’ve rented a house at Grasse, just for 2 weeks, as Tina was suddenly taken by a fancy to smell the lavender and roses. I hope they’ll all be out! We’re going to fly to Nice, and hire a car there to drive up to Grasse.

Meantime I thought I’d send you what news I have. Bryony, William’s eldest, has done very well indeed in her metal-work and sculpture course and won an important prize (£1000) awarded by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths for the best exhibits in the art colleges, for a Gryphon in copper or silver (I think), she has real talent and I’m sure will do great things. Ben and Rowan are both in Sri Lanka, staying with William and Jenny [passage obliterated by water stain]

Tina and Terence have moved into the new house. It’s called Marshville, which sounds like a penitentiary, but they’re not going to change the name, because everyone round there knows it. It’s only 10 minutes from the sea, a lovely beach at Crackington Haven, and although of course the move was a terrible business, as moves always are – and Tina even brought her little toolshed with her – and nothing is straight yet, – but it’s wonderful for them to have a proper room each, and 3 living rooms counting the kitchen, which is nice and large so they can have all their meals there – they couldn’t even all sit down together in Milton Abbot – and a huge garden where they won’t have to do a lot of work, except mowing the grass, as it is so close to the sea that only fuchsias and blackthorns and things like that will grow.

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