![]() ![]() ![]() Gladys stepped into the breach and paid the expenses for a basic funeral, made more expensive as the cemetery for Manhattan was in New Jersey (very near Newark airport), and the cost of travel to the cemetery was added to the bill. The sheer ache in my heart is almost unbearable.Īs Jack had taken leave of absence from his “school job” and was not being paid, he had virtually no money. Men are nasty things, – I never realised how nasty-and what you tell me is appalling.ĭo not “admire” me. Oh, I do sympathise, Jigg, with your unbelievable predicament, – to from Evelyn so largely contributed. But I am supposed to be going, next Saturday Aug 10 to stay in NJ with Gladys Grant for at least a few days. I just at present don’t know how to exist, and of course contemplate suicide. Because you still had not received the news of Evelyn’s death, and whatever you wrote in the smaller envelope would be on the presumption she still lived, – and would be painful for me to read. įrom what I read in the long envelope I decided not to open the other, smaller one. ![]() Shall burn it, – but keep curriculum vitae. Your two letters arrived, I opened the long one first, – and what a tale it unfolds! Don’t worry. With Jack’s support he applied, ultimately successfuly, for Canadian citizenship. Looking back to the publication of his novel, The Muscovites, in 1942, he considered returning to fiction, but in the end there was no finished manuscript. In this enforced idleness he started work on an autobiography, Confessions of an American Boy, but this was never completed. Jigg’s attempts to find work were largely unsuccessful: approaches to the Canadian Broadcasting Corportation (CBC) had yielded the opportunity to audition as a news presenter, but the audition did not lead to any work. Frederick and Matthew, then aged 21 and 18, had to find employment to keep the family going. Their first winter, living in a caravan in the car park of the local drive-in cinema, was gruelling. Canada, and Chester, did not provide the hoped-for respite. ![]()
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