| Description | Consists of 19 letters from Leonard Elmhirst with 7 letters from Dorothy Straight. Letters mention the Cosmopolitan Club; R G Kincaid; Rabindranath Tagore, 21 Feb 1921; visit of Mrs Parker to Cornell, and student behaviour, correspondence with Lord Robert Cecil about Tagore and Leonard's decision to return to India, 22 Apr 1921; Leonard's visit to Old Westbury, 18 Jun 1921; letters from 27 Jun 1921, discuss the student union planned for Cornell University, Willard Straight Hall; children; Cornell President Livingston Farrand; Max Farrand; funding of Lincoln Burr's portrait; Louis Froelick and an invitation to write for Asia Magazine; grant to Leonard Elmhirst for the benefit of India; John Masefield's poem 'Passing Strange', 28 Jun 1921; a second visit to Old Westbury; poem by Leonard Elmhirst, 'My Other Self', 1920; gift of letters of Elmhirst family members, Lionel Curtiss and Lowes Dickinson to Dorothy Straight, 5 Jul 1921; Dorothy's grief for Willard Straight and World War I, 6 Jul 1921; Herbert Croly's observations of England, 16 Jul 1921; growing friendship; a fable written by Leonard Elmhirst; invitation to Woods Hole, Massachusetts; visit to Cornell University and a picnic. A letter, Leonard to Dorothy, 28 Jul 1921, discusses his plans for Santineketan.
Letters become more affectionate and quicken in pace from Jun 1921.
Includes three photographs of Leonard Elmhirst taken during the World War I. |