Typed letter from Darina Silone, Via di Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, discussing her summer plans, expressing doubt about being able to attend the PEN Club congress in Edinburgh in August and pinning her hopes on seeing Lorna in Italy in September. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Darina Silone, Via di Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, Letterdyfe House, Roundstone, county Galway. Darina asks Lorna to talk to Gioia Gaidoni about a letter of recommendation for her sister Eithne to secure a summer scholarship in Perugia to improve her Italian so as to do better at college. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Darina Silone, Via di Villa Ricotti 36, Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, discussing the forthcoming UNESCO job in Florence and her sister Eithne’s success in securing a scholarship in Italy. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Darina Silone, Hotel am Steinplatz, Berlin, Charlottenburg, Germany, to Lorna Reynolds, Letterdyfe House, Roundstone, county Galway. She is attending a congress for cultural freedom and describes Berlin as a skeleton and a tragic city. She has fallen in love with an Indian on a visit to Europe, whom she describes as the man of his life, but who is in love with a girl in India. She has received an offer of marriage from an Englishman but has turned it down. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, advising Lorna against coming to Rome for Christmas and expressing her longing for financial independence, which would enable her to leave her husband. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. Darina is desperate to leave her husband, but feels unable to do so as she does not have a job or any material security, nor any qualifications. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She has asked a friend of hers in Paris to find her a small furnished flat, and has decided to separate from her husband in August. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She wants Lorna to see that the separation from her husband should take place without rancour and their relationship should continue on a different plane. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin. She regrets that her plan to separate from her husband coincided with Lorna’s trip to Italy but remains adamant that since she is choosing not to separate simply by walking out, she has to give her husband all her consideration for the time being.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetLetter from Darina Silone in Rome to Lorna Reynolds, 21 Herbert Avenue, Dublin, giving her travel advice for her forthcoming trip to Italy and making arrangements for a brief meeting with her. Her relationship with her husband is at present calm and affectionate and she will hate 'to throw the bomb into this quiet oasis’. With envelope.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poet