[Vwoolf] missionary string bags

[sbarkway at btinternet.com]

Here is my string bag (hanging from some door handles). Well, it was my aunt’s and from the 1950s or 60s. The handles are a soft leather.

 

Stephen

 



 

From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Christine Froula via Vwoolf
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This lovely e-conversation refreshes the soul. Christine On 10/15/2023 5: 16 AM, Lee Salomon via Vwoolf wrote: I remember that my mother had two light brown string bags that were kept hanging on hooks near our apartment's front door back in 

This lovely e-conversation refreshes the soul.

Christine

On 10/15/2023 5:16 AM, Lee Salomon via Vwoolf wrote:

I remember that my mother had two light brown string bags that were kept hanging on hooks near our apartment's front door back in the early fifties in Maryland. She probably brought them along when we arrived in 1950 from across the ocean.  

I remember that my mother had two light brown string bags that were kept hanging on hooks near our apartment's front door back in the early fifties in Maryland. She probably brought them along when we arrived in 1950 from across the ocean. Such a practical item. 

 

Alyza

“Our duty is to improve the human condition—in every way we can, for everyone who needs it.” – Kamala Harris

 

Alyza Lee Salomon

Hercules, CA 

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LeesWordArt at gmail.com <mailto:LeesWordArt at gmail.com> 

 

 

On Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 03:03:03 AM PDT, Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf  <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote: 

 

 

Ah, thanks Stuart, that fits much better than the “Taylors and Edgeworths” quotation. The replacement of “revives” with “refreshes” suggests that Moyes is quoting from memory. Could she even be running the two quotations together? The “pretty 

Ah, thanks Stuart, that fits much better than the “Taylors and Edgeworths” quotation. The replacement of “revives” with “refreshes” suggests that Moyes is quoting from memory. Could she even be running the two quotations together?

 

The “pretty hat” quotation is rather cheering!

 

Here’s a vintage photograph of a string bag, although I doubt it is a missionary one.

 

J

 

Professor Emeritus
Department of Language and Literature
NTNU
7491 Trondheim
Norway

 

From: Stuart N. Clarke  <mailto:stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> 
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Since the novel predates the 5-vol. diary, just to reassure: the quote *does* appear in “A Writer’s Diary”.

 

From: Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf 

Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2023 10:21 AM

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“A pretty hat in a teashop - how fashion revives the eye!” D5, 8 March 1941 (I don’t think I remember string bags. ) Stuart From: Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2023 9: 59 AM To: vwoolf@ lists. osu. edu Subject: [Vwoolf] missionary 

“A pretty hat in a teashop - how fashion revives the eye!”

D5, 8 March 1941

 

(I don’t think I remember string bags.) 

 

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