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2023.444.0001 - Autograph Note
7 October, 1948. El Mirasol Hotel, Santa Barbara, California. Isobel Field to Alexander Smith. Dear Mr. Smith / I enclose some / newspaper cuttings that will tell / you my story beter than I can tell / it myself - they don't mention / though, the tribute I received / over the radio. I know how much / I owe to RLS for all this and as a / good friend of his and a fellow - / Scot I sent them to you. /

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2023.445.0001 - Autograph Letter
8 November, 1947. El Mirasol Hotel, Santa Barbara, California. Isobel Field to Alexander Smith. Dear Mr. Smith / thank you so / much - and thank Louis' / good friend in Peebles for / the heather. . . . Every year in Samoa / we used to get one or two / wreaths of heather to put on / his tomb - and we always / did though it was a steep / climb up Vaea mountain / with the zig-zig path was under / forest trees /

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2023.446.0001 - Autograph Letter
17 November, 1946. Isobel Field to Alexander Smith Dear Mr. Smith / When my nurse opened the box you sent me she picked / out the heather but / did not notice the / poem - which she found / later /.

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2023.446.0002 - Autograph Letter
9 November, 1946. Isobel Field to Alexander Smith. Dear Mr. Smith / How charming / of you to send mt the / heather - I put it / in a vase in front of / Mr. Stevenson's picture. / It is an enlargement / of the snap shot my / brother took of him / with a "Brownie " / Lloyd was a little / boy then - and when / he opened the door / RLS who was writing / looked up and said / "O-U-T- out!" and / Lloyd snapped his / camera and departed /.

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2023.447.0001 - Autograph Letter
7 November, 1945. Isobel Field to Alexander Smith Dear Mr. Smith / thank you so / much for the spray of / heather - I put it beside / the Louis' framed photograph / It was kind of / you to remember. The / niece of Mrs. Cockran is now / somewhere in Aouth Africa / or was - the last I heard. / P.S. I am writing with / a hand that was paralyzed / two years ago when I had / a stroke. That explains / this wobbly writing .

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2023.447.0002 - Autograph Letter
4 February, 1945. Isobel Field to Alexander Smith My dear Mr. Smith / You asked about Mrs. / Cockran's last birthday Nov 13 / 1944. She gave a dinner party / of ten people and though she / had to join them in a wheel / chair she sat up and enjoyed / it all very much. I had sent / roses and a lei (which she / wore) / and my son Austin Strong / read teh will - we have saved / this for many years /.

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2023.448.0001 - Autograph Note
10 November, 1944, Mrs. Salisbury Field, Carpinteria, California, Isobel Field to Alexander Smith Dear Mr. Smith / thank you for your lovely poem / about RLS. I am sorry it did not / come in time for me to send it to / Mrs. Cockran (Annie Ide) to whom Louis / gave his birthday. She celebrates it every / year with a dinner party and this / poem read aloud would have been much / appreciated. /

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2023.460.0001 - Autograph Letter
Care rs. Stevens / 146 East 44th Street / New York City. Isobel Field to Charles Stoddard. Dearest Charley / Oh dear! . . . I came up here on account of / some lectures round and about / N.Y. so I thougt I might just / as well take in a few jolly invitations / and I have been / having a lovely time.

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2023.558.0001 - Manuscript
MS story by Isobel Field "A Mans Morning" A short story written by Isobel Field in very small handwriting in pencil. Pages are folded to accomodate writing on multiple sides.

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