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<DIV> There was an obituary in the <EM>NY Times</EM> as well, but it did not arouse as much comment in archival circles.</DIV>
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<DIV>Karen Levenback<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>----- Forwarded Message ----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Michele R Combs <mrrothen@syr.edu><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Archives & Archivists (A&A) List <archives@forums.archivists.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, November 15, 2012 3:50:42 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [archives] Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers' archives?<BR></FONT><BR>An interesting (if somewhat shallow and sexist!) piece from the Guardian, on great writers' secretaries, who became wives and then watchdogs of literary legacies. Some of the comments that follow the piece are worth reading as well.<BR><BR>"Valerie Eliot, who died last week, was the last of a generation of typists who married their employers and curated their work. Before her death last week at the age of 86, Valerie
Eliot had spent the previous half-century forbidding impertinent journalists and scholars from accessing her late husband TS Eliot's private papers...Valerie Eliot was able to be so definite about what the author of the Waste Land would have wanted not so much because she had been his wife - their late marriage lasted only eight years before Eliot's death in 1965 - but because she had been his secretary... To have real literary clout, the secretary needed to marry her Great Man..."<BR><BR>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/literary-secretary-wives-writers-archives <BR><BR>Michele<BR>+++++++++++++++<BR>Michele Combs<BR>Lead Archivist<BR>Special Collections Research Center<BR>Syracuse University<BR>315-443-2081<BR><A href="mailto:mrrothen@syr.edu" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:mrrothen@syr.edu">mrrothen@syr.edu</A> <BR><A href="http://scrc.syr.edu/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>scrc.syr.edu</A> <BR><A
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