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Volume 16, Number 1 (1991)

More Letters for the Roberts Collection

  • John Coldwell Adams
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1991-01-01

Abstract

The seven cards and letters which Charles G.D. Roberts wrote to Kathleen Strathearn from the winter of 1926-27 to the summer of 1928 document the writer's infatuation with the much-younger pianist. The seven reproduced letters reveal Roberts's passionate pursuit of Kathleen and her less-than-enthusiastic response to the suit of the impoverished and married writer. Kathleen was replaced in Roberts's affections by Joan Williams, whom he eventually married; Kathleen married twice and had a successful career as a pianist/ hostess in Asia.