![]() ![]() (The letter is dated 1995, and I remember ME being the debilitating condition du jour back then.) The house is not very sanitary because the two other occupants both have ME, so don’t do any cleaning. The writer has recently moved and now occupies a room in a terraced Edwardian house in Hereford.But this is a thank-you letter after all, and it amply fulfils its function. The writer doesn’t really have much to say, so keeps returning to the subject of the party: ‘I have told so many people about the party…all their parties sounded extremely dull in comparison’. ![]() ![]() The letter is interesting for the following reasons: McCarthy’s book was returned with the letter, because apparently the boyfriend of the letter-writer had already read it. The letter was written by a girl, using silly turquoise ink and a proliferation of exclamation marks, to thank the recipients for their wonderful house-warming party. It came complete with a handwritten letter, which I read with absolutely no compunction whatsoever and then used as a bookmark. I buy my books and most of my clothes from charity shops these days, and I picked up Mary McCarthy’s The Group from the Oxfam bookshop in Reading. ![]()
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