![]() ![]() She was appalled by conditions in post war Britain and wrote to an American friend over there and asked her to take four pairs of nylons around to the bookshop. She insisted on sending cash via mail to pay for her books, and didn’t hold back if she wasn’t impressed with the books she received. ![]() I have made arrangements with the Easter bunny to bring you an Egg, he will get over there and find you have died of Inertia.’ ![]() Where is Leigh Hunt? Where is the Oxford Verse? ![]() ‘Frank Doel, what are you DOING over there, you are not doing ANYthing, you are just sitting AROUND. In his reply to her first letter he addressed her as ‘Dear Madam.’ The letter she sent back said, ‘I hope ‘madam’ doesn’t mean over there what it does here.’ When she was seventeen she tripped over the Cambridge professor, Quiller-Crouch (‘Q’) in a library and maintained that she owed her peculiar taste in books to that encounter.įor twenty years the brash and outspoken Hanff corresponded with Frank Doel requesting books and trying to puncture his proper British reserve. Helene Hanff was a financially poor script-reader/writer with an antiquarian taste in books. In 1949 Miss Helene Hanff of New York was in search of quality literature and not finding what she wanted where she was she wrote down a list of her ‘most pressing problems’ and sent it to a seller of rare and secondhand books in London. ![]()
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