tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39657726465941487422024-03-14T00:25:02.219-07:00Hilda van Stockum Art and WritingThe art, writing, family and spiritual journey of Hilda van Stockum (1908-2006). Attended Art Schools in Dublin and Amsterdam. The fan club is maintained by her children and grandchildren and her many friends and readers.John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.comBlogger154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-82647602206362077702021-03-27T22:58:00.008-07:002021-08-06T05:26:07.869-07:00ART AUCTION | HvS Art Being Auctioned<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bWGVAEpjcP4/YGAXGeC0WTI/AAAAAAAAQoM/rJJIGrf3HlUz3WHdw-82LGJpLTmyFUP5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s458/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-28%2Bat%2B1.41.05%2BAM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="458" height="293" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bWGVAEpjcP4/YGAXGeC0WTI/AAAAAAAAQoM/rJJIGrf3HlUz3WHdw-82LGJpLTmyFUP5QCLcBGAsYHQ/w372-h293/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-28%2Bat%2B1.41.05%2BAM.png" width="372" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hilda van Stockum (1908-2006), "Pears in Window"<br /> (1987). Images copyright by the Estate of <br />Hilda vanStockum Marlin, administered<br /> by Boissevain Books, LLC. </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">March 28, 2021—Art by Hilda van Stockum is periodically auctioned.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">(Update: Her art was auctioned also August 5, 2021.) </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Details may be found here: </span><a href="https://bit.ly/31smTCg">https://bit.ly/31smTCg</a> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and here:</span> <a href="https://www.askart.com/auction_records/artist/133397/artist.aspx?q=61737604&">https://www.askart.com/auction_records/artist/133397/artist.aspx;</a><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Copyright to all images is held by the artist or the artist's estate for 70 years after the death of the artist.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The artist's estate is managed by Boissevain Books LLC. The managing partner and president is currently John Tepper Marlin, the artist's son and one of the artist's six children, five of them living (in four countries, on three continents). Email <a href="mailto:teppermarlin@aol.com">teppermarlin@aol.com</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Hilda van Stockum Marlin died in 2006. Rights enure to her estate until 2076. <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html">https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html</a>.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-61583253778115719272021-03-18T13:02:00.024-07:002021-04-05T08:00:26.815-07:00ORSON WELLES | He Was in My Dad's Dublin Crowd<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oz7UOKzsUFY/YFOydfaKbAI/AAAAAAAAQlo/Kfye_XdeBb8HKKdi8kjtK2ZZ1w3qQcKcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s630/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-18%2Bat%2B4.04.20%2BPM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="630" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oz7UOKzsUFY/YFOydfaKbAI/AAAAAAAAQlo/Kfye_XdeBb8HKKdi8kjtK2ZZ1w3qQcKcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-18%2Bat%2B4.04.20%2BPM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young Orson Welles</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">April 5, 2021—</span><b style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Orson Welles</b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> was the topic of the next event at 192 Books and the Paula Cooper Gallery, at 22nd Street and Tenth Avenue in Manhattan, on March 25. </span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">The location (</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.66666603088379px;">a block away from where Alice and I live in New York City) is at</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> 192 Tenth Avenue</span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><p style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>David Thomson</b> authored of more than twenty-five books, including <i>The Biographical Dictionary of Film</i>, biographies of Orson Welles and David O. Selznick. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Thomson has used his biography of Welles as a base for a more comprehensive review of the history of movie directors, <i>The Light in the Dark.</i></span></p><p style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Michael Barker</b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> interviews. He is co-president and co-founder, with Tom Bernard, of Sony Pictures Classics, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Previously he was an executive at United Artists (1980–1983) and co-founder of Orion Classics (1983–1991). </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">This talk is recorded— </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/192books/david-thomson-in-conversation-with-michael-barker-1243200">https://mailchi.mp/192books/david-thomson-in-conversation-with-michael-barker-1243200</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">.</span></p><p style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>A Family Connection</b></p><p style="color: #181818; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 11px;">Orson Welles</b><span style="font-size: 11px;"> has a connection to my parents,</span> Spike Marlin (1909-1994) and his then-fiancée Hilda van Stockum (1908-2006)<span style="font-size: 11px;">. My father was a student at Trinity College, Dublin and my mother was a student at the Dublin School of Art in 1931, when Welles, 16 years old, got a part at Dublin's Gate Theate playing the Duke in a new play, <i>Jew Suss</i>. Stories of Welles's early days in Ireland are brilliantly told here: <a href="https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/genius-in-the-making-orson-welles-in-ireland-34237664.html">https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/genius-in-the-making-orson-welles-in-ireland-34237664.html</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">One evening Welles came to dinner— a week early. </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">Probably it was a confusion over the word “next” as in “next Thursday” (...but not</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">this </i><span style="font-size: 11px;">Thursday). </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">Even then, Welles had made himself famous (his theater career began at 16 in 1931), and my mother was in conniptions. She pulled a dinner together... </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">The life of Orson Welles has been the subject of three recent documentaries.</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> <a href="https://scriptmag.com/features/it-depends-is-your-story-idea-safe-one-shared-idea-three-unique-films">https://scriptmag.com/features/it-depends-is-your-story-idea-safe-one-shared-idea-three-unique-films</a></span>. My sister<span style="font-size: 11px;"> Lis tells the story that our Dad Spike (and maybe Hilda, says my sister Brigid) were having breakfast in New York City when Welles suddenly said, “Must go, I am getting married this morning!" His first marriage was in 1934, so it must have been to </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;">Virginia Nicolson, to whom he </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;">stayed married until 1940. He married Rita Hayworth in 1943 and stayed with her until 1947. He married </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;">Paola Mori in 1955 and stayed with her until </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;">1985. His biography lists two "partners":</span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;"> Dolores del Río (1940–43) and Oja Kodar (1966–85). He seems to have been serially monogamous until 1966. All that must be in Thomson's biography.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><b>Six of the Trinity Crowd in Dublin, 1930-32</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">These are his contemporaries that Orson Welles glommed onto in Dublin:</span></p><ul style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><li style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">John Cyril <b>Donnelly</b>. </span>Born in Dublin, Ireland on 2 Apr 1912 to <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/john-herbert-donnelly_109738391"><span style="color: #0c5478;">John Herbert Donnelly</span></a> (1876-1956) and <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/gertrude-mabel-robinson_67796230"><span style="color: #0c5478;">Gertrude Mabel Robinson</span></a> (1885-1982). He passed away on 29 Jun 1948 on Pershing Av, Lima, Peru. </li><li style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Christopher ("Christo") <b>Gore-Grimes.</b></li><li style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">David <b>Grene</b>, who went to the University of Chicago. One of his sons is at Trinity College, Dublin and the other has a band focusing on Irish music. Alice and I have met the latter. David was deeply distressed, says his son, about Willem’s love affair with the Provost’s daughter Pic Gwynn.</li><li style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Ervin Ross ("Spike") <b>Marlin</b>, who married Hilda <b>van Stockum.</b> They<b> </b>had six children, one of whom is your blogger (#5, second youngest). </li><li style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Owen Sheehy ("Skeff") </span><b style="font-size: 11px;">Skeffington</b><span style="font-size: 11px;">. He wrote a book. When Spike was in Dublin during the war, working for the OSS, he looked up Skeffington. Lis says that when she started at Trinity, Skeffington “gave us an introductory lecture. He said everyone loves Ireland because Ireland has never done anything for another country so nobody owes it anything.”</span></li><li style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Willem</span><b style="font-size: 11px;"> van Stockum</b><span style="font-size: 11px;">, brother of Hilda van Stockum (my mother), who married Spike Marlin. </span>He had a love affair with Pic Gwynn, who wanted to marry him but was overruled by her father, Trinity College Provost Edward John Gwynn. <a href="https://www.tcd.ie/provost/addresses/2018%20-%202019/2019-02-07-Launch-Gwynn-Family-Papers-%27A-Splendid-Tradition.php">https://www.tcd.ie/provost/addresses/2018%20-%202019/2019-02-07-Launch-Gwynn-Family-Papers-%27A-Splendid-Tradition.php</a>. (A father could do that kind of thing then.) Gwynn<span style="font-size: 11px;"> was doubtless concerned about someone taking his daughter away to Holland or the United States. That was the objection of Marconi's Irish mother to the marriage of Guglielmo Marconi to Inez Milholland (they were engaged for months). In a twist of fate, Willem's uncle Eugen married Inez instead of Marconi (she proposed to Eugen on a boat in 1916; Marconi said that Eugen was better suited to her). Inez said later, "The radio is wonderful but on reflection I wouldn't want to be married to one." Willem never married. He volunteered for air force service when his country was invaded and he trained in Canada. He piloted a bomber during the week of D-Day. A monument has been erected in France, near Laval, to him and his crew. </span> <span style="font-size: 11px;">The story of Pic and Willem is well told in </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">Time Bomber</i><span style="font-size: 11px;"> by Robert Wack (2014), for example on pages 27, 84-85. </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Bomber-Robert-P-Wack/dp/0984523286" style="font-size: 11px;">https://www.amazon.com/Time-Bomber-Robert-P-Wack/dp/0984523286</a></li></ul>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-899191016739664132021-03-16T18:46:00.013-07:002021-03-16T19:48:03.517-07:00CATHOLIC WRITERS | Hilda van Stockum (1908-2006)<p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-64QSTAI27sI/YFFdKhqtM2I/AAAAAAAAQlY/iXaJ41YMEcwH--cXjtQYBI5mJ4-msWe_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/HvS%2Bat%2B35%2B-%2B1945%2Bin%2BDC%2Bjust%2Bbefore%2Bgoing%2Bto%2BCanada.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="2048" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-64QSTAI27sI/YFFdKhqtM2I/AAAAAAAAQlY/iXaJ41YMEcwH--cXjtQYBI5mJ4-msWe_QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h333/HvS%2Bat%2B35%2B-%2B1945%2Bin%2BDC%2Bjust%2Bbefore%2Bgoing%2Bto%2BCanada.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hilda, probably Christmas 1944, with her children. <br />From right to left, clockwise: Olga, Sheila, John,<br />Brigid, Randal. Lis was Catherine in the second<br />and third books of the Canadian trilogy. Photo © <br />by permission of Estate of Hilda van Stockum.<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">[The following is an excerpt from Walter Romig, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Catholic-Authors-Second-Self-Portraits/dp/1258398478/ref=sr_1_3">The</a></i></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Catholic-Authors-Second-Self-Portraits/dp/1258398478/ref=sr_1_3">Second Book of Catholic Authors</a>, </i>2012. Romig was born in 1905 so he would be 116 years old in 2021. This is a scanned version of the book via HathiTrust. Google describes it the book as being in the public domain. Since the comments by Hilda van Stockum are as of circa 1944, the book must have appeared around that time.]</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A YOUNG FRIEND of mine, around nine years old, when asked at <span style="font-size: 11px;">school to write about her past life, began dramatically: </span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">“I was </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">born in the slums of Amsterdam while my heartless mother was </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">enjoying herself in Pans.”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Nothing as exciting happened to me. <span style="font-size: 11px;">I was born in a comfortable house in Rotterdam in 1908, with </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">both my parents very much in attendance and suitably impressed. </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">In fact, I have learned that they made quite a fuss over me. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My <span style="font-size: 11px;">father was an officer in the Royal Dutch Navy, and we moved </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">about quite a bit. That may have been the reason I didn’t go to </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">school until I was ten years old and already knew how to read </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">and write. I read so voraciously, in fact, that I knew all about </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">school long before I went there, and the day that I was first told </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">to stand in the corner was a red-letter day for me! I’ve tried to </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">express this delight in my book </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">Pegeen</i><span style="font-size: 11px;">, where a little girl also </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">goes to school late and enjoys experiencing what she had so </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">often read about. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another happy day was when I first discovered that I could <span style="font-size: 11px;">write down my own stories. I immediately began a long tale </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">[p. 304 of book] about two little girls called Mientje and Cateau, their adventures</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">interrupted by sums and grammar and punctuated with inkblots.</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">However, what worried me most was the cramp in my fingers </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">I got from writing. Being only eight at the time, the physical </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">effort was greater than the mental, and I remember wondering </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">whether grownups also had to go through such agony whenever </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">they wrote. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the first years of my life my mother spoke English with me. <span style="font-size: 11px;">Her mother was Irish and had spoken English with her. Later </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">on, when my brothers were born and Dutch nurses came into </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">the house, my mother stopped talking English with us and I </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">forgot a great deal of it. But I believe the ease with which I </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">express myself in English is due to the fact that it was my chief </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">language as a baby. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My parents were not Catholic; I was the first in both families <span style="font-size: 11px;">to come back to the Faith. The first time I felt an interest in the </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">Catholic Church was when I was six years old. My father and </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">mother never talked to me about religion, but they once left me </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">to be cared for by a Catholic nurse who had pictures of Christ </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">in her bedroom. I didn’t know who He was and asked about </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">Him; so she put me on the bed and talked to me for an hour. </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">She was terribly shocked that I should be so ignorant, and seemed </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">to blame my parents, so I did not love her, but the story she told </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">impressed me. A little later, I got a children’s Bible and I said </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">I wanted to go to church. My parents, both agnostics, sent me </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">with the servants to the village church: a whitewashed, chilly </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">affair with nothing that would appeal to a child. There was </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">only a black-coated man talking a long time in a peculiar voice. </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">I decided that I had been fooled; it wasn’t a church at all; and </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I didn’t ask to go again. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But one day when I was walking with my mother, we passed <span style="font-size: 11px;">a Catholic Church, and I immediately dragged my mother </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">inside. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“This is a church!’* I cried, sniffing the incense. “This is what <span style="font-size: 11px;">I meant; this is where God is!’’ Mother thought it all very </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">dangerous and unsuitable and quickly hurried me away. </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">[p. 305 of book] </span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Before I went to school, my father used to give me </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">geography</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">lessons with an orange and a candle. I remember being </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">exceed</span><span style="font-size: 11px;">ingly troubled at the idea of becoming an angel and flapping</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">around between all the big round worlds in a space that never </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">ended. The way my father talked about it, I calculated that </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">there wasn’t much chance of my ever meeting another angel <span style="font-size: 11px;">except once in a thousand years or so, and even when you did </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">meet one there wouldn’t be much to do but sit on one of those </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">round worlds and have a chat. Even if you fell off it made no </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">difference, because there wasn’t anywhere to fall to. I remember </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">being so troubled about it that I had to get out of my bed and </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">go to my parents to be consoled. They were playing chess to</span><span style="font-size: 11px;">gether and looked very cosy and comforting. They convinced </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">me that my fears were more funny than tragic. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of course there isn’t space enough to tell all that happened in <span style="font-size: 11px;">my life so far, but it seems to me the best thing will be to tell </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">roughly what events brought me into the Church. You see, </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">most other Catholic authors are born Catholics and have to tell </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">how they became authors; but I was born with an ever-wagging </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">tongue, and can more fitly describe how I became a Catholic. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I was sixteen, we moved to Ireland, and there, of course, <span style="font-size: 11px;">I came in close contact with the Catholic Church. I attended the </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">art school in Dublin and argued about philosophy with the other </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">students. I read Freud and Shaw and Dostoievsky and interested </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">myself in the Montessori system of education. Presently I heard </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">that there was a Montessori school in Waterford, and I wrote a </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">letter to the Mother Superior of the convent which ran the <span style="font-size: 11px;">school, asking if I might see it. I got a kind letter back, inviting </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">me to come, and so one day I walked up the driveway to the </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">convent door. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I was eighteen then. I wore a bright red dress, close cropped <span style="font-size: 11px;">hair, and was gaily swinging my round straw hat by its elastic </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">band. I never saw such merriment as when the Sisters caught </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">sight of me. When they had laughed their fill they explained </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">that they had expected and dreaded the arrival of an elderly, </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">severe-looking schoolmistress, with pince-nez and notebook. </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">[p. 306] </span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">They couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw me ambling up </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">the driveway. It was a great relief to them; and they promptly </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">proceeded to spoil me. I was a vegetarian in those days, and so </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">they pressed lettuce and fruit on me every hour, for fear I would </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">waste away in front of their eyes. They let me help with the </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">housework, and in the evenings I sat in the room where the </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">novices weren’t even allowed and talked my head off to a circle </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">of appreciative listeners. This visit made a deep impression on </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">me. 1 hadn’t known nuns could be so natural and so merry, and </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">their cordiality and gifts touched my heart. When the Mother </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Superior gave me a badge of the Sacred Heart to wear I carried <span style="font-size: 11px;">it about for a long time until it got lost. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I was nineteen, I went back to Amsterdam to study art, <span style="font-size: 11px;">and there, in a library, I found G. K. Chesterton, who has since </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">been my guiding light among mortals. I bought all his books, </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">and felt how the sweeping broom of his intellect was cleaning </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">the attic of my mind. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In 1931, 1 went back to Ireland and met my husband, who was <span style="font-size: 11px;">then studying at Trinity College, Dublin, and a friend of my </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">brother’s. We married in 1932, and he went off to America, his </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">native country, to get a position, and send for me when he had </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">things settled. While he was gone, I came in contact with what </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">is called “the Oxford Group,’’ and experienced an emotional </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">conversion. I thought I had discovered the secret of life, and </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">made a fool of myself trying to convert fellow Christians to my </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">own recent immature faith; but I was blissfully ignorant of that, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and very happy. It was around that time that I wrote <i>A Day on </i><i style="font-size: 11px;">Skates</i><span style="font-size: 11px;"> (1934). After a while, I discovered that the Oxford Group </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">was good as an irritant to startle you out of your own groove, </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">but entirely unfit as a daily spiritual guide. So I searched among </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">churches, and chose one that wouldn’t be too particular about </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">dogma, landing in the Episcopal church. But the Episcopal </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">church has many mansions, and as I practiced religion and grew </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">in wisdom, I wandered higher and higher until I became a </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">bigoted Anglo-Catholic. Those were the days when I would </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">poke my head into a church and sniff. I could tell whether it </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">[p. 307] <span style="font-size: 11px;">In February, 1934, I arrived at last in New York, where my</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">first baby [Olga—Joan in <i>The Mitchells</i> trilogy] was born in November of the same year. When she </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">was three months old, my husband got a position with the gov- </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ernment [he was hired by Henry Morgenthau for the Farm Credit Administration] and we moved to Washington, D.C., where my four next </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">babies were bom and where my widowed mother came to join us. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Meanwhile, even the Anglican church proved unsatisfactory <span style="font-size: 11px;">and distressingly illogical; so finally, in 1939, the light dawned </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">and I became a Catholic. </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">The Cottage at Bantry Bay</i><span style="font-size: 11px;">, and, </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">Francis on the Run</i><span style="font-size: 11px;">, its sequel, were written in the Anglican </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">days. They were inspired by an Irish family which I knew very </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">well. The three later books, </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">Kersti and Saint Nicholas</i><span style="font-size: 11px;">, </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">Pegeen,</i><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">and, </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">Andries</i><span style="font-size: 11px;">, were all written after I entered the Church. My </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">mother entered a year after I did and just before the Nazi in</span><span style="font-size: 11px;">vasion of Holland, which gave her the strength to bear that </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I feel very fortunate and very happy, and I hope in some way <span style="font-size: 11px;">through my books to give children a feeling for the beauty of </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">life and its fun. And also its holiness. And the only advice </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">I have for Catholic authors is to love God and neighbor as much </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">as they can. For without love, nothing is ever created. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Original Editor's note: </b>Hilda van Stockum is, in private life, Mrs. Ervin Marlin. <span style="font-size: 11px;">Her later books for younger readers, illustrated by the author, include <i>Kersti </i></span><span style="font-size: 11px;"><i>and Saint Nicholas</i>, 1940, Viking; <i>Pegeen</i>, 1941, Viking, <i>Andries</i>, 1942, Viking.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><b>Blogger's Note</b>: I am John Tepper Marlin, considerably older than I was in the photo at two years old in 1944; I was Timmy in <i>The Mitchells</i> trilogy. I live in New York City and East Hampton, New York; and Vero Beach, Florida. Olga (Joan) lives in Nairobi, Kenya. Brigid (Patsy) lives in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. Randal (Peter) lives in Ottawa, Canada. Sheila (Angela) lived outside of Watford, Hertfordshire, England, but sadly is deceased, leaving four daughters and their families. Lis (Catherine) lives in London. If you want to reach any of my living sibings, contact me at TepperMarlin [at] <a href="http://aol.com">aol.com</a>. I am also Hilda van Stockum's executor and handle rights including permissions for reproduction of her art and writing. Most of her 25 books for children are still in print and under copyright until 2056. English-language editions are published by <a href="http://www.bethlehembooks.com">Bethlehem Books</a>, <a href="http://purplehousepress.com">Purple House Press</a> and <a href="http://boissevainbooks.com">Boissevain Books</a>. <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2014/11/hilda-van-stockum-foreign-translations.html">Translations</a> of her books are available in French, Danish, Dutch, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese and German. She has also translated books from German and Dutch into English—and her French was pretty good as well. </span></p>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-87300281122040867162020-11-14T23:04:00.008-08:002020-11-15T19:16:15.692-08:00MONTESSORI | St. Anthony's School, London<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--UsQ7hSGupk/X7DSesIi1ZI/AAAAAAAAQXI/YrSMLUiUU6ceEzTYEgPfN2PzgDwL5zvlACLcBGAsYHQ/s662/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-15%2Bat%2B2.01.22%2BAM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="522" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--UsQ7hSGupk/X7DSesIi1ZI/AAAAAAAAQXI/YrSMLUiUU6ceEzTYEgPfN2PzgDwL5zvlACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-15%2Bat%2B2.01.22%2BAM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maria Montessori<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>November 15, 2020—My sister Sheila Marlin O'Neill was a Montessori-trained teacher who started several Montessori Schools and maintained them until her death. Her Montessori-trained children (fourth generation, since Hilda van Stockum's mother was also Montessori-trained) have continued one of the schools, at Garston Manor near Watford.<p></p><p>I have been interested in the chain of Montessori training. Sheila and Lis both went to Sion Hill in Blackrock, Dublin, where the Dominican Sisters used Montessori methods (see below). </p><p>One of the trainings that Sheila took was at St. Anthony's School in London. Such a school exists (<a href="https://www.stanthonysprep.org.uk/about/our-history/">https://www.stanthonysprep.org.uk/about/our-history/</a>) but it is not run by a religious order (it seems to have been owned by two different private equity firms in succession and is now owned by Alpha Plus).</p><p>Here is an excerpt from a book about Montessori Schools and training, which refers to Sister Stephanie, O.S.F. (Order of St Francis) as Headmistress of St. Anthony's School and is Honorary Secretary of the Catholic Montessori Guild. I would love to know more about her.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cKWgoWjxd-U/X7DP008e_5I/AAAAAAAAQW0/39JlZCT7aVE2BHiL76is8eDHzklrJy0FACLcBGAsYHQ/s898/Montessori.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="724" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cKWgoWjxd-U/X7DP008e_5I/AAAAAAAAQW0/39JlZCT7aVE2BHiL76is8eDHzklrJy0FACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Montessori.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Maria Montessori believed that game-playing was at the heart of learning. It took a while for teachers in religious schools to get used to the idea that game-playing had a place in a Catholic education. More here: <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0034408800750308">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0034408800750308</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is an explanation (from 2012!) why I am looking for Sister Stephanie and the story of St. Anthony's School: <a href="https://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2012/07/copy-of-missing-montessori-book.html">https://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2012/07/copy-of-missing-montessori-book.html</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am also trying to contact the Council of Catholic Montessori Schools.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-55119222163460002692020-05-10T23:09:00.003-07:002020-05-11T19:52:41.203-07:00MOTHER'S DAY | An Appreciation for Hilda van Stockum<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Mom in 2005, when she was 97, the<br />
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May 10, 2020 (Mother's Day in the USA)—We celebrated Mother's Day today. That always-on-Sunday celebration was invented in the United States by Anna Jarvis. Her mother had held Mother's Friendship Days to reunite families and neighbors separated during the U.S. Civil War. Her daughter, Anna Jarvis, carried on the torch.<br />
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On May 10, 1908, the first official Mother's Day celebrations took place in the United States. That's also when three-month-old Hilda was on a boat with her parents to Java. (In 1914, Woodrow Wilson designated the second Sunday of May as Mother's Day.)<br />
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So, in a year when my Mom would have turned 112, our family's honoree today was Alice Tepper Marlin. Our daughter Caroline made a magnificent dinner for us to share. As we are hunkered down to avoid spread of the coronavirus, it was a good time for reflection.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caroline with her Mom, Hachikō and John.<br />Artwork by Brigid Marlin. Photo by SL.</td></tr>
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Alice and I remembered to each other our joint vivid experiences of our mothers in the past half-century (the 49th anniversary of our meeting was in March). Alice was especially grateful for our long vacations with the Marlin children and grandchildren: "Hilda and Spike organized the vacations so that the cousins would get to meet one another, form memories and bonds," she says. "Hilda favored the simpler life, self-reliance, home remedies for ailments, family time."<br />
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Caroline added: "She encouraged children to exercise their imagination. They were provided with writing and painting materials and they made things. They had performances."<br />
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In this time of "social distancing," when people must stay away from events and shopping where people congregate, we are thrown back on our own resources. The Marlin children, and then the grandchildren, had a chance to work on common vacation projects. I especially remember our vacations at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ekzRykQdU">Rosturk Castle in Mulranny, County Mayo</a>, Ireland, especially as I have learned more about the man who had the idea for the castle, Colonel Vaughan, and started building it in 1867. He was from a one-time recusant Catholic family. Of the 13 Vaughan children who grew up <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15311b.htm">in Courtfield, Ross, Herefordshire</a>, six became priests and five became nuns. Another interesting vacation spot we spent summers in was Skibbereen, in southwest Ireland, when all the young cousins were thriving. Other memorable vacation homes were in Robin Hood, Maine; a vineyard villa in the hills outside of Florence; and a French chateau in la Ferté St Cyr.<br />
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Alice loved all these vacations. She missed out on big family gatherings in her childhood because her only sibling left home to go to Bryn Mawr College when Alice was eight. She also had an intellectually gifted mother, who went to Barnard College and then earned an advanced degree at Columbia University. Alice's mother was a scientist. She chose the Baldwin School for Alice after much research, and instilled in Alice a respect for learning, especially science.<br />
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Mom's skillful understanding of what children need probably originated from her own mother, who was sent scads of instructions by her own Irish mother when she brought HvS to the East Indies when she was a few months old. HvS had six children to practice on, and was trained by Maria Montessori, who established a training center in Dublin. Mom was very proud of the book she did for Montessori course, and told me several times how much she misses having the book she did as part of the course. She thinks she loaned it to someone connected with a Sisters of Loreta convent in Dublin and somehow it was never returned. We have a bad copy of the book, and would dearly love to get back the original to republish it.<br />
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I intend to keep writing more about HvS, and <a href="https://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2014/07/my-mother-olga-boissevain-by-hilda-van.html">her Dutch-Irish mother (Olga Boissevain)</a>, and her Irish mother (Emily Heloise MacDonnell). My niece Christine Schintgen would like to do a biography of HvS as a literary lion in the children's book field. I would like to focus on Hilda van Stockum as a correspondent with and about her family during World War II.John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-38606746295742017802018-05-15T22:50:00.000-07:002018-05-15T22:53:35.615-07:00HvS to Spike | Paris, Oct 1, 1954<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-22200197643057478702018-02-08T19:24:00.002-08:002018-02-10T15:55:35.327-08:00BIRTH | Feb 9–Hilda van Stockum (110 in 2018)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">February 9, 2018–Hilda van Stockum was born 110 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">She died in 2006, at 98.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Her obituary was in <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/04/obituaries/04stockum.html">The New York Times</a> </i>and <a href="https://www.boissevain.us/hildavanstockum/hvsobituaries.html">many other newspapers</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://writers4kids.blogspot.com/2016/01/birth-feb-9hilda-van-stockum-would-be.html">Her family still misses her</a>.</span>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-19799849344525309482018-01-09T03:50:00.002-08:002018-01-13T19:05:54.723-08:00DOGS | What Trump Doesn't Get (+Video of Pres&1stDog)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">January 9, 2018 – There's an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/opinion/trump-dogs-wolff-book.html?emc=edit_th_20180109&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=64627981&_r=0">Op-Ed piece in today's </a><i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/opinion/trump-dogs-wolff-book.html?emc=edit_th_20180109&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=64627981&_r=0">New York Times</a> </i>by Jennifer Weiner saying that Donald Trump doesn't understand dogs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(For video of the President and First Dog, belonging to a neighbor, see Comment below.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is the first President since Thomas Jefferson (who did not, apparently, lack for human companionship when he wanted it) not to have had a pet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ms. Weiner argues, pretty effectively, that Trump doesn't understand dogs because his recorded references to them are all pejorative.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trump's attitude sounds like that of W. C. Fields, born William Claude Dukenfield: "Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad." But Leo Rosten claims that quote was actually first made as his comment <i>about</i> W.C. Fields during a 1939 roast at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939 (Rosten in <i>The Power of Positive Nonsense,</i> 1977).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ms. Weiner might have used the comment attributed to President Harry S. Truman: “If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.” But she probably didn't because upon examination this quote is also misattributed, though it is a line in the 1975 play <i>Give 'Em Hell Harry</i>. The Truman Library questions whether Truman ever said it – Harry and Bess actually gave away two dogs that they received as gifts. According to a post by Barry Popik, the quote was used back on November 19, 1911 in a classified ad on the second page of the <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i>: "If you want a friend, buy a dog." The United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. used this as its slogan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">William Safire, in <i>Safire’s Political Dictionary </i>(Oxford University Press, 2008 ), remembers (p. 635) former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld adding to Truman's alleged dictum: “Better make it a small dog, because it may turn on you also.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">My late friend Seton Shanley, who bred dogs in East Hampton, had a bumper sticker that said: "The more people I meet, the more I like my dogs."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My mother loved dogs and it was a family tug-of-war because my father did not. Eventually after the sixth child arrived he approved of our getting a dog in Montreal. Trusty was the center of our lives for several years, until we left for Europe in 1951 and had to leave her behind with a friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dogs are featured in many of my Mom's books, but especially <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Patsy-Pup-Hilda-van-Stockum/dp/1439224390">Patsy and the Pup</a>, which our dog Hachikō <i><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2016/03/patsy-and-pup-my-favorite-book-says.html">enjoyed reading</a>. </i>Another of her books focused on a dog was <i>Rufus Roun</i><i>d and Round, </i>which is a fictionalized story of a dog I once had. She uses the true story of the roundup by the Nazis of Dutch pet dogs for army use to show the heartlessness of the occupiers of World War II Holland, in her most widely read book, <i>The Winged Watchman</i>. Dogs are everywhere in her paintings and illustrations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">President Trump should get a dog, but given his attitude toward dogs, I'm not sure the rescue agencies should let him have one.</span>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-12482913897658049732017-12-25T19:43:00.003-08:002017-12-31T16:05:52.474-08:00HILDA'S ADVICE TO WRITERS | Letter to ERM, March 13, 1946<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><b><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Dec. 25, 2017 – HvS here chortles over surprising questions about writing from wannabe writers. One of them seemed to think that the needed trick might be in </i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">the </i><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><i>type</i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"> of paper she writes on. It is posted here for the first time, just typed up from the original </i><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><i>handwritten</i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"> letter by my son Jay as a Christmas gift to me. John (aka Timmy Mitchell)</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Hilda Marlin<br />
3728 Northampton Street NW<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">March 13, 1946</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Dearest Husband,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Your presents were brought yesterday and I don't think you've ever bought us anything that was such a hit. The crucifix is </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">beautiful</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and so is the Sacred Heart picture. Of course Jesus's face is not one hundred percent satisfactory, but how could it be? I only know too well how difficult it is, but it is at least dignified, artistic and in your good taste – a picture you can honor. And perhaps, in time, I shall even get to like the face, for it is not an insignificant or insipid face. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The medals touched us all very much. You selected them with great love and care – Saint John the Baptist for Johnny (though his patron saint is really Saint John the Evangelist), Saint Therèse of the Infant Jesus for Olga (though her patron saint is Saint Teresa of Avila [Carmelite nun and mystic, born between Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America and the beginning of the Reformation- JTM]. It would have done for Brigid because she took Therèse as her Confirmation name, but she fell in love with The Blessed Virgin, so she took that). Saint Robert for Randal is correct, and he was </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">very</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> pleased with it. So is Saint Cecilia for Sheila and Saint Elisabeth for Lissie. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I think I shall have to take Saint Michael for no one else wants him and I can use him very well, battle as I have to with the Devil in many forms. I was also very touched with the brooch – The Virgin and Child surrounded by my children. Very appropriate. Only what if I get twins next? You shall have to give me another brooch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">You have never given me a present that pleased me so well. I have rearranged the pictures in my room to do justice to the Crucifix and Olga now gets the Crucifix <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Massee"><span style="color: blue;">May [Massee]</span></a> gave me. If you should manage to be in Paris again I should like a French and Latin missal. It might be useful in Canada. I've lost my own missal and they seem to make such beautiful art in Paris, perhaps you can get me a really artistic one. I wish we could go to Paris! I am </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">terribly happy</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> with your presents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">We also liked van Heuven very much. He is in trouble, though, for he has thrown up the job he took on account of his mother, who hated his being so far away for six years and now he has got to have a job and he hoped you could get him one at PICAO [the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization, of which Spike was Secretary]. He is going to see you when he gets back to London. He seemed a more mature and thoughtful person than Biereus. Biereus reminds me a little of the other Biereus I knew (Wim).</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><i>Hans Brinker</i> (World Publishing Co.) arrived and looks very nice. I think the colored pictures reproduced beautifully. I also talked before a professional writer's club and had a roaring success. They were in fits of laughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">There was one lady who asked me a silly question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"What do you think of ‘Angela’ for a dog's name?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"It depends on the dog,” I said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"Oh, it's a </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">sweet</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> dog, but my son won't allow it to have that name."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"Maybe he is embarrassed, walking around with a dog called Angela," I suggested, and everybody roared. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">There was a school teacher who said she had wanted to write all her life but never got so far. I told her to keep a diary of what went on in her class to make a start. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"Oh!" she said intensely. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"Oh! Is </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">that</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> how you do it? Do you use a looseleaf notebook or a plain? Or would a five-year diary be better?" She clutched at me as if I were a lifebuoy, and the questions I had to answer convinced me that it is most unlikely that she'll ever write a best-seller. To tell you the honest truth, I rather wondered what she taught the children. But she was touchingly grateful for my advice. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Of course I told my usual repertoire of how I started to write and used birth control on my books – and how I became a citizen and said [when asked by the immigration officer why she hadn’t reported that she had a second child when she applied for citizenship a year earlier–JTM]:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"If you wait any longer I'll have three.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">But there was one part that made them almost faint with laughter and that was especially for the benefit of aspiring writers. I said that you often asked me what I found to write about my most ordinary children and that I told you they'd be no use </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">unless</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> they were ordinary. And I went on to say that the things you gossiped about in real life, and envied and thought thrilling were boring and unconvincing in literature – that it was the normal that is needed in books rather than the abnormal. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"So," I said, "the duller the life you lead, the less brilliant your companions, the more humdrum your surroundings, the less exciting your occupations, the more successful your books." </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">And that was such a paradox to the aspiring writers they simply gasped for breath. Well, I was in my blue heaven. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Otherwise, I'm a drudge. I managed to make some kind of dinner for Mr. van Heuven but the oven door broke and what with all my temperamental children I have quite a time of it. But I refuse to get flustered and we're very happy, thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Did I tell you that Johnny said: "Jesus is a sport, isn't He?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Today he said: "I wish Mammy was small, then I could knock her down." </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">He came to bring me an onion out of the garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"Do you like onions?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"No," I said. "But when I was a little boy I did." Profound silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Then – triumphantly: "You never </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">were</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> a little boy! A little </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">girl</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> you mean!" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">He showed me his doll [my sisters promoted gender-neutral play – JTM]. "I want it to be </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">real,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">” he said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"I can't make it real." I told him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"Then who can?" he asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">"Then how do we get it to God?" he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Randal is getting better. Doctor Deyrup says if we hadn't caught it just then he would have had pneumonia. Yet she had been three days before and judged that he wasn't very sick and if I hadn't checked the symptoms so much she might not even have come again. But I didn't like the sound of his cough. An ordinary cough has a liquid sound – and a croupy cough is a bark. But this was a falsetto cough with a nasty twang, completely dry. It sounded like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. We really were anxious about him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Miffy told a horrible story about a man he knew who had what they thought a "mild" case of flu and suddenly developed kidney complications, was rushed to a hospital and only saved through liberal application of Penicillin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Mother said, so tragically: "I don't want to lose a grandson as well as a son, and especially not one who continually reminds me of Willem."</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">But thanks be to God he is all right now. If all goes well he may get up tomorrow and on Friday I have to take him to Group H[ealth] for an X-ray of his chest. [Randal turns 80 next month, and has six children – three girls including his eldest and youngest, and three boys.–JTM]</span><br />
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John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-85394323760901946952017-12-05T10:35:00.001-08:002017-12-06T23:02:58.771-08:00AUCTIONS | Hilda van Stockum Art to Be Sold<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image © by the Estate of Hilda van Stockum, shown here by <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The art-pricing site askART has just announced that one or more items of Hilda van Stockum art will be auctioned in the near future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For more details go to the <a href="http://www.askart.com/upcoming_auctions/Hilda_Van_Stockum_Marlin/133397/Hilda_Van_Stockum_Marlin.aspx">askART</a> site</span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Full information will require a subscription.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, 33 pieces of art by Hilda van Stockum have been collected together on the <b><a href="http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/private/van_stockum_hilda/artworks/57960/0/">Arcadja</a> </b>art-pricing site. To see the prices, a "Pro" subscription is required, but several pieces of art are shown with prices attached.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some recent HvS art works that have been auctioned:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Hans Brinker</i> drawings</b> for the World Publishing edition. Ironically, the artist in this case was a Dutch native, but the author of the famed book (which invented the legend of the boy with his finger in the dike) never even visited Holland. Auctioned by Susanin's, Chicago, March 19, 2016, Lot 7072.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wildflower with Beech Leaves</b> (1992). <a href="https://www.bidsquare.com/auction-house/leslie-hindman-auctioneers?gclid=CjwKCAiApJnRBRBlEiwAPTgmxGTpnX6It363d7G2W7LSeoZzK9qP87scAR5IllGZJxe8dZZQLv5lsxoCN5gQAvD_BwE">Leslie Hindmin</a>, Chicago, March 19, 2014, Lot 2712.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pears in a Window. </b>DeVere's, Dublin. November 27, 2013, Lot 2. These pears look a lot like the ones in the HvS Europa stamp, although the background is different. Could pears last through two sets of "sittings"? DeVere's auctioned another HvS art work on May 14, 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another auction house that deals in HvS art: Adams (Dublin).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another art pricing site: <a href="https://www.artprice.com/artist/57960/hilda-stockum-van">Artprice</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Related Post: <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2015/10/where-are-archives-of-hilda-van-stockum.html">Archives and Galleries of Hilda van Stockum</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-60514802637353636162017-12-05T09:01:00.005-08:002017-12-13T02:53:41.806-08:00ST NICHOLAS | It's His Day – Buy "Kersti and St Nicholas"! (Updated Dec. 6, 2017)<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">December 5, 2017 – It is St </span>Nicholas<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> Eve, my mother's favorite day of the year when we were growing up. She would put up a Christmas tree and then get out her St Nicholas costume.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">With great fanfare at dusk she would arrive as St Nicholas, meting out appreciation for all the good things the children did and remonstrating, in a stern but kindly way, about some example of deeds less admirable.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">She did such a </span>good<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> job of it! I remember being so impressed with the deep knowledge St Nicholas had of our family. How could he know so much about so many families?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The next morning we would find our stockings hanging full of small gifts, and sometimes a piece of coal with an explanation, a reminder of some egregious malfeasance or nonfeasance. I was stunned. St Nicholas kept track! Who knew?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Hilda van Stockum herself is full of morality. She came down hard on her evil characters, like Leendert in <i>The Winged Watchman</i>. Some librarians found it disconcerting that Kersti managed to persuade St Nicholas to deviate from </span>his<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> normal mission of giving presents only to good children. In <i>Kersti</i> we find a St Nicholas who listens to pleas and can be merciful. The question of the librarians is where mercy ends and injustice begins.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The unexpected turn of the plot surely reflects the impact on van Stockum of Hitler's ruthless invasion of the Netherlands in May of the year of publication, 1940. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">That was van Stockum's </span>country<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> of birth and most of her relatives were deeply threatened. Many would die because they worked in the Resistance. Some died of hunger. One of her two brothers died during the war piloting an RAF plane to fight Hitler. The other brother died of an illness contracted in Holland during the war.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">This is a </span></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">"</span><a href="http://dutchfood.about.com/od/breadspastriescookies/r/Spicedcookies.htm" style="font-family: sans-serif;" target="_blank">Speculaas</a> <span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Moulin" – a </span></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Dutch windmill </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">cookie, with </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">almond </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">ginger </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">spices. In </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">They </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">are a specialty of St. </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Nicholas </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Day.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">One can understand why </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: large;">at that time van Stockum was yearning for benevolence from those with the power to dispense mercy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: large;">The book <i>Kersti and St Nicholas</i> was originally a hard-cover book published by Viking. The reprint edition is a paperback. Her children edited the text slightly to ensure that the good children did not suffer from the mercy shown to naughty children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: large;">The illustrations in the book are universally admired, and every year the products offered by Boissevain Books get a little better as reprint technology improves and our ability to ensure quality increases.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">A beautifully illustrated book for the Holidays about Kersti, a mischievous little girl who is always misbehaving, much to the dismay of her six older sisters and parents. As St. Nicholas Day approaches, Kersti worries that she won't receive any gifts and sets out on an adventure. First published in 1940, this new edition has been abridged and adapted by the author's family to make it more accessible to young readers today. – <a href="https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/hilda-van-stockum/kersti-and-saint-nicholas.htm">Fantastic Fiction.</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The book has a rating of 4.8 out of 5 on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19505517-kersti-and-saint-nicholas"><span style="color: blue;">Goodreads</span></a> and 4 out of 5 on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kersti-Saint-Nicholas-Hilda-Stockum/dp/0984523243"><span style="color: blue;">Amazon</span></a>. So:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Read three chapters free (with our permission) at the <a href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/kersti-and-saint-nicholas/"><span style="color: blue;">St Nicholas Center website</span></a>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: large;">Then </span><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">buy</span></b><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: large;"> the book from Amazon or from </span><a href="http://www.boissevainbooks.com/" style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">us, the publisher</span></a><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: large;"> (and get on our email list).</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">St Nicholas is the patron saint of millers and sailors, Holland and New York City. </span><span style="font-size: large;">St Nicholas appears the evening before his feastday, i.e., the evening of December 5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above is a photo of a cookie my wife Alice Tepper Marlin purchased in Belgium. It is a St Nicholas Day specialty. It has a windmill on it because it's a specialty of Holland and other low countries threatened by floods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">First published in 1962, <i>The </i><i>Winged </i></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Watchman</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> has sold 55,000 copies </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> reprint since 1997.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> It has been optioned for a movie and a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">television </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">mini-series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hurricane Sandy a year ago shut down much of New York City and reminded us of the Dutch skill at keeping out water. Much of Holland is at or below sea level and the windmills pump out the "polders", the areas surrounded by dikes (Dutch embankments).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Port of Rotterdam is a great example of Dutch engineering to keep water at bay. </span><span style="font-size: large;">It is also where my Hilda van Stockum was born. Her father was a naval captain and she grew up near ports and naval bases. Her book, </span><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_19?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+winged+watchman+by+hilda+van+stockum&sprefix=The+Winged+Watchman%2Caps%2C163" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Winged Watchman</span></a> </i><span style="font-size: large;">(1962), was republished in 1997 after 20 years being out of print. It has sold 55,000 copies in the reprint version, has been optioned for a movie, and is currently under option for a television miniseries. The book by my mother has special relevance in light of Hurricane Sandy, which caused most of its damage because of flooding and caused most of the lost economic activity because of the electricity outages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The story is about a family that lives in an old windmill during the Nazi Occupation. Two boys aged 10 and 14 join the Resistance. The book shows how the windmill did their work when the electric mills were starved for fuel during the Dutch famine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">New York City has lost the skills of its Dutch colonists and Hurricane Sandy did major<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2012/1120-sandy/survey-of-the-flooding-in-new-york-after-the-hurricane.html?hp&hp"> damage</a> to the areas of NYC near water. If the Dutch were still in charge this might not have happened. Bring 'em back!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Seal of the City of New York. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Note windmill </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"wings" and two </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">beavers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Dutch first came to New York when the Dutch East India Company in 1609 sent English navigator Henry Hudson to explore the river now named after him. He went far north into what is now Canada and wrote back to his sponsors that beavers lived on the river in abundance. A Dutch settlement, New Amsterdam, was founded in Manhattan largely to support trapping beavers and sending them to Europe for women to wear. The New York City coat of arms has two beavers on it as well as a four windmill wings in honor of the Dutch settlers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Dutch have been facing these flooding problems for many centuries. Their world preeminence in building windmills to pump out water also made them experts in making sails for the mill wings and this helped make them a global naval power for a time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the English took over the Dutch colony in 1664, they renamed it New York. The city grew most rapidly when the Hudson River became the gateway not only to upstate New York but also, after the Erie Canal was built, to the Great Lakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Dutch have developed many kinds of technology to deal with today's challenges to their flood-threatened system of polders. New York needs to get their advice. <i>The Winged Watchman</i> provides both a history of the importance of windmills in Dutch history and an education in the ways to deal with flooding.</span><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-24289370708949416082017-11-23T09:35:00.004-08:002017-11-23T09:43:52.762-08:00HENRIETTE VAN MARLE | Ireland, 1953<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-40yfgXs3nfw/WhcBaVt42mI/AAAAAAAANZA/cbIoDFnyd3YiF5vm7BnrvTYmwIfs9HbkACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_9046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1389" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-40yfgXs3nfw/WhcBaVt42mI/AAAAAAAANZA/cbIoDFnyd3YiF5vm7BnrvTYmwIfs9HbkACLcBGAs/s400/IMG_9046.jpg" width="345" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L to R: Hilda van Stockum and <br />
Henriette van Marle.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I ran across this photo of Hilda van Stockum, looks like Ireland, probably Blackrock or Dalkey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brigid just reported back to me who it is standing next to HvS:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's my cousin Henriette van Marle! It could be Dublin. She visited us there when we were teenagers. I was 15 and she was 19 or 20. I wrote about her in my book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Danny-Brigid-Marlin/dp/0741466929">A Meaning for Danny</a>. </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">We were great friends when we were in Holland after the war. I was 11 and she was 16. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I remember that summer. We were at <i>De Leemküle </i>in Hattem, near Tante Hessie [van Hall] and her <i>Kolkhuis</i>. It was a holiday camp in the woods, with common cooking facilities and little cabins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brigid reminded me that Henriette's mother and sister traded names within the family. Hilda Boissevain de Booy and Olga Boissevain van Stockum were the middle two of daughters of Charles and Emily Boissevain. Charles was the editor of the <i>Algemeen Handelsblad</i>, now the <i>nrcHandelsblad</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Henriette's older sister was called Hilda and her Mother was called Olga. This Olga /Hilda exchange was started by our granny Olga, and our great-aunt Hilda Boissevain [de Booy]. They agreed to name their daughters after each other. Their daughters did the same. The tradition stopped then because our Olga didn't have kids, I didn't have a girl, and Sheila gave her girls Irish first names to go with their O'Neill surname.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">This an opportunity to provide an update on family news:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">My sister Sheila Marlin O'Neill, sadly, <a href="http://writers4kids.blogspot.com/2017/09/death-sheila-marlin.html">died in September, a month before her 78th birthday.</a> Her funeral in England was last month.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">HvS's cousin Tom de Booy (son of Hilda and Han de Booy) recently died at 93. Our cousin Charles Boissevain is writing Tom's obituary for the <i>nrcHandelsblad</i>.</span></li>
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John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-76710175762562395342017-11-02T19:15:00.001-07:002017-11-04T12:18:30.327-07:00WINDMILLS UPDATED | Let the Turbines Spin, by Alice Tepper Marlin<span style="font-size: large;">The daughter-in-law of Hilda van Stockum updates the story of <i>The Winged Watchman</i> by showing how windmills can create energy in new ways. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The largest U.S. array of new windmills in the ocean is being planned for the end of Long Island.</span><br />
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<a href="http://easthamptonstar.com/Opinion/20171102/Let-Turbines-Spin-Alice-Tepper-Marlin#.WfvRBQjl3Ds.blogger"><span style="font-size: large;">Let the Turbines Spin by Alice Tepper Marlin | The East Hampton Star</span></a>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-73358199806490018892017-10-31T22:22:00.001-07:002017-11-01T04:35:35.772-07:00DEATH | November 1 – HvS<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cQCM2Qigt8I/WBWhI8_M0XI/AAAAAAAALtQ/S_1L7HnZZTIVXd95jFKhNzdiPmWA7URBACLcB/s1600/HvS%2Bat%2B73%2Bin%2B1971-%2Bwith%2BSpike%2Bat%2BJohn%2527s%2Bwedding%2Bto%2BAlice.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cQCM2Qigt8I/WBWhI8_M0XI/AAAAAAAALtQ/S_1L7HnZZTIVXd95jFKhNzdiPmWA7URBACLcB/s400/HvS%2Bat%2B73%2Bin%2B1971-%2Bwith%2BSpike%2Bat%2BJohn%2527s%2Bwedding%2Bto%2BAlice.JPG" width="295" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spike, 1909-1994 (L) and Hilda van Stockum<br />
Marlin, 1908-2006. Photo taken in NJ in 1971.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">November 1, 2017–Hilda van Stockum <a href="http://www.hildavanstockum.com/">died this day, All Saints Day, in 2006</a>. This is the 11th anniversary of her death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sadly this year, the main news is that Sheila died of cancer on September 25, a month before her 78th birthday. Now the living siblings are five. Olga, Brigid, Randal, John, Lis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sheila's life was celebrated last month in Watford at her <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/10/sheila-oneill-funeral-oct-13-2017.html">funeral</a> and <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/10/sheila-oneill-family-lunch-oct-14-2017.html">family lunch</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tenth anniversary of HvS's death last year was celebrated with the re-issue of a new (2016) edition of her 1975 book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Borrowed-House-Hilda-van-Stockum/dp/1930900899/ref=dp_ob_title_bk">The Borrowed House</a>, </i>originally published by Farrar Straus. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The family </span><a href="http://writers4kids.blogspot.com/2014/10/november-1-all-saints-day-death-of.html"><span style="font-size: large;">HvS Remembrances</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> post has recently been updated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some of HvS's many obituaries and appreciations:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Borrowed-House-Hilda-van-Stockum/dp/1930900899/ref=dp_ob_title_bk">Reissued in 2016</a>.</td></tr>
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<small style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>USA</b><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/04/obituaries/04stockum.html?oref=slogin" target="_blank" type="0"><span style="color: blue;"><i>New York Times</i></span></a>, Nov. 4, 2006, <span style="color: blue;"><i><a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/42825?access=366303" target="_blank" type="0">New York Sun</a></i></span>, Nov. 3, 2006, <a href="http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/aifolder/memoriam/memoriam.html" target="_blank" type="0">Children's Literature Network</a>, <a href="http://www.bethlehembooks.com/author_details.cfm?ID=122&user=" target="_blank" type="0">Bethlehem Books</a>, <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/eNewsletter/CA6389665/2788.html" target="_blank" type="0"><i>Publishers Weekly</i></a>, <a href="http://www.hbook.com/news/obituaries/default.asp"><i>Horn Book</i></a>, <a href="http://anabragahenebrysjournal.blogspot.com/2006/11/hilda-van-stockum-2006.html" target="_blank" type="0">Ana Braga-Henebry's Journal</a>, <a href="http://studeo.blogspot.com/2006/11/hilda-van-stockum-1908-2006.html" target="_blank" type="0">Love2Learn Mom</a>, <a href="http://www.toptensources.com/topteneditor.aspx?sitename=Childrens-Media&type=editor&Page=3">Top Ten Sources - Children's Media</a>, <a href="http://library.hiram.edu/bookem2-4.htm">Hiram Library</a>, <a href="http://karenedmisten.blogspot.com/2006/11/if-you-havent-had-chance-to.html">Karen Edmisten Blog</a>, <a href="http://mailgate.dada.net/rec/rec.arts.books.childrens/msg40126.html">Mailgate</a>.<br /><b>CANADA</b> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20061102.93070547/EmailBNStory/BDA/"><i>Toronto Globe and Mail</i></a>, Nov. 2, 2006, <a href="http://www.cityeconomist.com/literaryvideoproperties/photosofhvsandfamily.html"><i>National Post</i></a>, Nov. 9, 2006.</small><br />
<small style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>IRELAND</b> <a href="http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/obituaries/2006/1118/index.html" target="_blank" type="0"><i>Irish Times</i></a>, Nov. 18, 2006.</small><br />
<small style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>UK </b><a href="http://www.hildavanstockum.com/life.asp"><i>Books for Keeps</i></a>, Jan. 2007, <a href="http://www.hemelhempsteadtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=5233&ArticleID=1868749"><i>Berkhamsted Gazette</i></a>, Nov. 8, 2006, <a href="http://word.world-citizenship.org/word/index.php/wp-archive/857" target="_blank" type="0">World People's Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.achuka.co.uk/achockablog/archives/002843.html" target="_blank" type="0">Achockoblog (Achuka)</a>. </small><br />
<small style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>NETHERLANDS</b> (in Dutch) <a href="http://archief.parool.nl/artikel?text=Hilda%20%20Stockum&SORT=presence&ED=ola&PRD=2y&SEC=%2A&FDOC=0" target="_blank" type="0"><i>Het Parool</i> (Amsterdam, WWII Underground Resistance Newspaper)</a>, Nov. 9, 2006, <a href="http://leesplein.bibliotheek.nl/6LLvolg.html?http://leesplein.bibliotheek.nl/includes/weetjes_ll.php?forward=1&id=2445" target="_blank" type="0">Leesplein</a>. </small><br />
<small style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>GERMANY </b>(in German) <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_van_Stockum">German-Language Wikipedia</a>. </small><br />
<small style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>KENYA </b><a href="http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation"><i>Daily Nation</i></a>, Nairobi, Nov. 14, 2006, p. 38. </small><br />
<small style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>NEW ZEALAND </b><a href="http://www.dnwfriends.nzl.org/newsletters/news37/news37.html"><i>Dorothy Neal White Newsletter</i></a>. </small><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Related Posts:</b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span></span><small style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_van_Stockum">HvS English-Language Wikipedia Entry</a> . <a href="http://www.hildavanstockum.com/nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_van_Stockum">HvS Dutch-Language Wikipedia Entry</a> . <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2016/10/ww2-willem-van-stockum-gravesite.html">Her brother Willem</a> . <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3965772646594148742#editor/target=post;postID=5769990098917536649;onPublishedMenu=overview;onClosedMenu=overview;postNum=2;src=link">European Pilgrimage 1954-55</a> . <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Borrowed-House-Hilda-van-Stockum/dp/1930900899/ref=dp_ob_title_bk">New Purple House Press Edition of <i>The Borrowed House</i></a><b> . </b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://writers4kids.blogspot.com/2014/10/november-1-all-saints-day-death-of.html">Remembrances by Her Family</a> (Updated to 2016)</span></small>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-17804772178998097832017-10-14T18:24:00.001-07:002017-10-24T16:47:20.896-07:00SHEILA O'NEILL | Family Lunch – Oct. 14, 2017<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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L to R: David Hall, Brian Pigott, Jack Ray on the terrace of High Elms Manor before</div>
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the family lunch in memory of Sheila Marlin O'Neill. All photos by JT Marlin.</div>
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Table 7. Lis and Cliff Paice and Sheila Petrie Leech.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L to R: Sheila Petrie Leech, Jack Ray, Randal Marlin<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">October 14, 2017 – The family lunch on Saturday was in the same room at High Elms Manor as the funeral reception the day before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is also the room where the <a href="http://www.hildavanstockum.com/">funeral reception was held for Hilda van Stockum Marlin</a> in November 2006. Quite a few of the people who attended today were at the previous memorial meal eleven years ago.
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A special guest today was Sheila Petrie Leech, one of Sheila's life-long friends from the days in 1951-54 when we lived in Blackrock and Dalkey in the Dublin area.</span><br />
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<span x-large=""><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lis was the last member of the family to talk with Sheila before she died, and Lis was asked to make special mention of Sheila Leech at the memorial service as someone as someone she remembered with special fondness, along with Hazel Irwin and Eithne O'Neill, who were not able to attend the memorial events.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Whereas the High Elms Montessori School was most visibly represented by many pupils at the Funeral Mass, today the school was represented by a table full of teachers and others involved in running the school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Jonathan Willoughby and Phoenix Hawkins-O'Neill performed a reprise of the song that she sang and he accompanied on the guitar at the Crematorium service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The song was "Singing Angel" by Sarah McLachlan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The acoustics were superior today at High Elms Manor and I was able to make out more of the words of the lovely song than yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You're in the arms of the angel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">May you find some comfort here.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ailise, </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">, Catrine O'Neill.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Table 7. Brian Pigott, Brigid Marlin, Lis Paice. Note that the catering staff member was<br />moving around so fast she appears as a blur.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">L to R: Sita Pigott, Brigid Marlin, David Hall on the terrace of High Elms Manor.</span></td></tr>
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John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-63668177762723615902017-10-13T18:58:00.000-07:002017-10-15T07:08:18.204-07:00SHEILA O'NEILL | Funeral – Oct. 13, 2017<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sheila Marlin O'Neill<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Watford, UK, Oct. 13, 2017 – My sister Sheila's Funeral Mass was held today at St Saviour's Roman Catholic Church in Abbots Langley, Watford, Herts., UK – 17 miles northwest of London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Father Richard officiated at the Mass and the Committal at the Crematorium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sheila attended the church while she was alive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">She lived nearby at High Elms Manor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">She founded and was Principal of the High Elms Manor Montessori School. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">When she was considering buying the run-down manor, anyone with any familiarity with property management had the same negative reaction (the roof had long been leaking in many places, for example).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sheila persisted, rounded up support from several reluctant sources including family, and bought it. Over the next two decades she has transformed it and left an astonishing legacy for the community.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fr Richard prays for the soul of Sheila O'Neill. Photos by JT Marlin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fr Richard closes inside and outer curtains at<br />
the Crematorium. Goodbye Sheila, and to 72<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sheila's four daughters largely took over the school before she died, and also put the Manor to work as a location for conferences, weddings, film sets and other events. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The transition was prompted by, and the subject of, episodes of a television series, <a href="http://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/garston-herts-uk-rescue-of-high-elms.html">"Country House Rescue,"</a> produced by Ruth Watson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Despite the fact that Sheila had spent more on repairing and renovating High Elms Manor than she spent on purchasing it, Watson's advice was to spend even more, and she and her daughters did just that. The result is a gem of a school and community center.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alan Jones and his wife (L) and Brigid (R).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Funeral Mass began with readings by Sheila's grandchildren Zodiac Willoughby-O'Neill and Marnie Hilton-O'Neill. (A family tree that shows all seven grandchildren is <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3965772646594148742#editor/target=post;postID=2206381901708039656;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=2;src=link">here</a>.) </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Randal (back to camera), Cliff and Lis.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The first reading was the second letter of St Paul to Timothy 4:6-8, followed by the favorite h</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">ymn, "The Lord's My Shepherd" and a reading from John's Gospel, 14:1-6.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L to R: Marnie (Roisin's eldest child) <br />
and Phoenix (Catrine's older child).<br />
Catrine is in back between them.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Offertory hymn was "Jerusalem" and the recessional hymn was "This Little Light of Mine."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At the church Sheila's daughters – Roisin, Catrine, Liadain and Ailise – each read out a eulogy and at the Crematorium they read poems.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DLYsuL92p84/WeNmYQW0_bI/AAAAAAAANQA/OF4_Hh8s1fUZmSOmYV1FLiMs0xMWMud6wCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_9159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1600" height="419" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DLYsuL92p84/WeNmYQW0_bI/AAAAAAAANQA/OF4_Hh8s1fUZmSOmYV1FLiMs0xMWMud6wCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_9159.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">L to R: Zodiac </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16px;">Willoughby-O’Neill,Cian </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16px;">Hilton-O'Neill, Fin </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16px;">Hilton-O’Neill, Oscar </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16px;">Blanchard-O’Neill, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16px;">Max Northcott. Back to camera: Brigid Marlin. Photo by JT Marlin.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At the Crematorium, Sheila's </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">granddaughter Phoenix sang a song </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">by Sarah McLachlan</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">, accompanied by Jonathan Willoughby on the guitar.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vojislav Mihailovic (friend of Sheila's<br />
late husband Shane) and Chris Oakley.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elaine (Randal's wife) and John.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Four of Sheila's five siblings were able to attend the funeral – Brigid, Randal (from Ottawa), John (from New York) and Lis. Olga, the eldest, was not able to travel from Kenya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sheila had many talents, more than she could fully utilize.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u1vvkeH3iWI/WeFkFjK3mJI/AAAAAAAANLc/Uq6eIzGF9t4gpx0Kxxy_8Q3TN1k8sIPrwCLcBGAs/s1600/High%2BElms%2BMontessori%2BSchool%2BPupils%2B9168.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u1vvkeH3iWI/WeFkFjK3mJI/AAAAAAAANLc/Uq6eIzGF9t4gpx0Kxxy_8Q3TN1k8sIPrwCLcBGAs/s320/High%2BElms%2BMontessori%2BSchool%2BPupils%2B9168.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three of the many pupils at the funeral<br />
from the High Elms Montessori School.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Her thoughtful and well-constructed poem, "Look to the Stars," read by Liadain, describes her feelings near the end of her life when she was letting go of her attachments to the world she was leaving:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Look to the Stars</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">In letting go,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I have set myself free.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I ask, want for, nothing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">You no longer hold me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It's over, I'm content</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Knowing you still breathe the air,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Enriching the universe</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">By just being there.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Stay soft and with compassion, remember me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Vulnerable, I carry the scars</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Of earth, as pain and longing linger.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">So – I will look to the stars!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">And live on in the heavens</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Where joy triumphs and reigns</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">With a love as pure as the angels.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">There I will find you again.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZumDvCZeyXw/WeFtyC7KnhI/AAAAAAAANL0/apGUGbKtr3E_BtsH0dCzw39Ce-49ofUlwCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_9180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1233" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZumDvCZeyXw/WeFtyC7KnhI/AAAAAAAANL0/apGUGbKtr3E_BtsH0dCzw39Ce-49ofUlwCLcBGAs/s200/IMG_9180.jpg" width="152" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sheila's third book,<br />
about Jacob the Goose.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At the reception at High Elms Manor, a copy of Sheila's third book, <i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jacob-Famous-Battalion-Coldstream-Guards/dp/0992845912"><span style="color: blue;">Jacob: The Famous Goose of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards</span></a>,</span> </i>was waiting as a gift for everyone who came to the funeral.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Many of those who attended remembered me from the previous funeral at High Elms Manor, for my mother Hilda van Stockum.</span><br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wa72u3OFoVE/WeFfk5_jXKI/AAAAAAAANK8/gqqnNfmTbYQiLuw730Hk4hIAmXnXBmpjgCLcBGAs/s1600/Alex%2Band%2BJudy%2B9176.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1135" data-original-width="1600" height="278" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wa72u3OFoVE/WeFfk5_jXKI/AAAAAAAANK8/gqqnNfmTbYQiLuw730Hk4hIAmXnXBmpjgCLcBGAs/s400/Alex%2Band%2BJudy%2B9176.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Alex Mihailovic and Judy Vickery, at</div>
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the reception at High Elms Manor.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Among those was Judy Vickrey, who was a regular participant in the Friday noontime Writers Group that gathered in the HvS home.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vp0aJu_5CV0/WeHwknL45RI/AAAAAAAANMw/CnWiXqcTSCUnOxeushP5DrVCWAQkTOcKACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_9161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="1600" height="251" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vp0aJu_5CV0/WeHwknL45RI/AAAAAAAANMw/CnWiXqcTSCUnOxeushP5DrVCWAQkTOcKACLcBGAs/s320/IMG_9161.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L to R: Janet and brother Jonathan<br />
Willoughby.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The group now convenes high up on the same street in Berkhamsted, at Brigid's house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">News Stories: <a href="http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/15408660._Much_loved__headteacher_retires_after_50_years_of_schooling/?ref=ar">Sheila's Retirement</a> . <a href="http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/15575227.Family_pays_tribute_to____truly_remarkable____children___s_author_who_lost_battle_with_cancer/?ref=ar">Sheila's Death</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Other Posts: <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/sheila-marlin-oneill-rip-sept-25.html">Sheila Marlin O'Neill, R.I.P.</a></span><br />
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Home of Brigid's Son Chris Oakley, Who Looks On.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The results of <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/08/contest-quibble-and-win-prize.html">the first Hilda van Stockum contest</a> are in.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The prize was for finding the most error in a <a href="http://bit.ly/2wzHoMi">short biographical sketch of Hilda van Stockum</a>.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The winner is BRIGID MARLIN of Berkhamsted, Herts.</b></span><br />
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1. "Dutch children’s book" writer. Ambiguous. She wrote in English. Only two of her books have been translated into Dutch.</div>
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2. Olga should be Hilda. </div>
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6. Society name again wrong – in "Art Imagination" the OF is left out.</div>
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7. Inaccurate –"Psychic Subjects"? Does he mean Psychological Subjects? We didn't deal with ghosts & other phenomenon</div>
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8. Firsthand – she didn't know the war stories firsthand. She was in the USA during the war. Her sources had information firsthand; for her it was secondhand.</div>
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10. "A Day on Skate"- missing the final "s".</div>
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1. John Tepper Marlin is called John Boissevain twice.John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-22063819017080396562017-10-04T11:46:00.002-07:002018-02-14T20:15:30.374-08:00SHEILA O'NEILL | Her Daughters and Grands<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">October 4, 2017–Sheila Marlin O'Neill (1939-2017) is the first of the six children of </span><span style="font-size: large;">Hilda van Stockum and Spike Marlin to join her parents in the next life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was the third daughter in the family, </span><span style="font-size: large;">sandwiched between the two boys – a rose between two thorns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In <a href="http://www.holyheroes.com/Bantry-Bay-3-book-set-by-Hilda-van-Stockum-p/bbset.htm"><i>The Mitchells </i>trilogy</a>, Sheila's fictionalized name was Angela.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sheila's 23-acre 63-room <a href="http://www.highelmsmanor.co.uk/">High Elms Manor</a> and school in Garston, Herts., was the focus of a </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ruth Watson </span><i><a href="http://www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk/homes-gardens/interiors/country-house-rescue-in-garston-1-1643183"><span style="font-size: large;">Country House Rescue</span></a></i><span style="font-size: large;"> series, </span><span style="font-size: large;">largely about how the upkeep of the large estate could be made sustainable, i.e., generate enough money to pay for the cost of maintaining it.</span><br />
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Second row, L to R: Alice, Roisin, Sheila.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">High Elms Manor developed new events and programs with the help of Sheila's four daughters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The plan worked and the Manor and Manor Montessori School have been spruced up. I was impressed with what had been done there last year when I was there.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Sheila is now gone, and the daughters are in charge of the funeral for their mother. </span><span style="font-size: large;">It will be on October 13. I plan to be there with three other siblings, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Sheila's four daughters and seven grandchildren. For those attending the funeral or trying to keep track of the family from a distance, I have prepared he following simplified family tree as a start on appreciating this fruitful branch of the Marlin family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Death Notice, October 4, 2017, </b><b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://bit.ly/2y2XCko">Hemel Hempstead Gazette</a>. </b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>O'Neill, Sheila.</b> Passed away on 25th September 2017, aged 77 years. Principal of Marlin Montessori School, Berkhamsted, Herts. Funeral service to take place on Friday 13th October at 1.30 pm at St Saviour's Church, Abbots Langley, followed by a committal at West Herts Crematorium at 3.20 pm. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Flowers may be sent to: </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">High Elms Manor, High Elms Lane, Watford, Hertfordshire WD25 0JX, UK. Phone: +44 1923 663875.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you would like to donate to the family's chosen charity please write a cheque to Save The Children and post it to the funeral director's address: </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">James Peddle Ltd.,</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> 10 Moneyhill Parade, Uxbridge Road, Rickmansworth
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">See also: </span><b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/sheila-visit-sept-23.html" style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: blue;">Visit to Watford</span></a><span style="font-family: "times";"> . </span><span style="font-family: "times";"><u>Sheila's</u></span><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/sheila-marlin-oneill-rip-sept-25.html" style="font-family: times;"> <span style="color: blue;">Death</span></a></span></b></span></span><br />
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John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-17504423828003389452017-09-26T03:21:00.000-07:002017-12-25T20:13:55.268-08:00SHEILA MARLIN O'NEILL | R.I.P., Sept. 25, 2017 (Condolences)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">September 26, 2017 – Sheila Marlin O'Neill, the youngest of my three older sisters, died at 8:30 pm yesterday at the Peace Hospice in Watford, England. It was a month before her 78th birthday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sheila was the calm center of us six children. As her siblings were bent on shorter-term quests of various kinds, she made long-term plans, and she carried them out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For many years she headed a group of Montessori Schools in the Watford and Berkhamsted areas of Hertfordshire. At one time there were eleven schools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The High Elms Montessori School, near Watford has been operating in a building on the 23-acre <a href="http://www.highelmsmanor.co.uk/">High Elms Manor</a> where she has lived for many years. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">In July 2017, she retired because of ill health from teaching and educational administration after a career spanning 50 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was well enough to see visitors just <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/sheila-visit-sept-23.html">five days before she died</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">She was, like her mother and older sister Brigid, a writer as well as an artist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In her later years she became a proficient author and illustrator of books for children, typically involving animals such as <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/sheila-marlin-oneill-rip-sept-25.html">seals or a goose</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sheila is the first of the six children of Hilda van Stockum to join her parents in the next life. She is survived by her four daughters Roisin, Catrine, Liadain (Lili) and Ailise, and seven grandchildren. Her late husband Shane O'Neill, who grew up in Waterford, Ireland attended Trinity College Dublin with the late Ben Oakley, who married Sheila's sister Brigid. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sept. 26, Olga (Sister, in Nairobi): </b></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I have just opened my mail to find John's message, followed by all of yours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Dear little Sheila – I have been praying so much for her – that God take her straight to Heaven. It is a great comfort to know that the priest was there to give her the Anointing of the Sick. Masses will be celebrated for her here: three in my Centre, Samara.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We shall miss her!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My special love to all at this difficult moment, with a big hug to each from Olga</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sept. 26, Alice (Sister-in-Law, in Geneva):</b> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sheila worked so hard and lovingly for her family, caring for daughters and grandchildren. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She reaped a precious reward: her daughters, Brigid and Lis were with her almost constantly near the end.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Sheila was always grateful for even the smallest attention. I am sure your presence and the prayers of the siblings unable to be at her side meant the world to her.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">John and I are grateful to have had a bit of time with her recently.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">She bore the painful curse of cancer so bravely. Warm smiles and appreciation even over that.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">We shall all miss her.</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Love to all, Alice</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Sept. 26, Jay (Nephew, in New York)</b>: Her laugh, her smile, her concentration while painting, all the big family meals, and skits, or just hanging out with everyone enjoying a sunny day will always be remembered. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Condolences to all. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Love, Jay</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">See also: <b><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/sheila-visit-sept-23.html">Visit to Watford</a> . <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/10/sheila-her-four-daughters.html">Daughters and Grands</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: small;">I am told that to comment on this post now seems to require a Google account and password etc. </span><i style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">I'm really sorry about that.</i><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: small;"> If you wish to send a correction or comment, please write to the blogger at teppermarlin[at]</span><a href="http://aol.com/" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">aol.com</a><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: small;">I have substituted [at] for </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: small;">@ to thwart bots that look for email addresses embedded in messages.</span></span></span>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-1353356319721017952017-09-22T22:32:00.000-07:002017-10-14T20:04:51.592-07:00SHEILA O'NEILL | Visit in Watford, Sept. 20<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sept. 22, 2017 – My sister Sheila Marlin O'Neill <a href="http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/15408660._quot_Much_loved_quot__headteacher_retires_after_50_years_of_schooling/">retired in July</a> for health reasons as Principal of the High Elms Manor Montessori School.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was after 50 years of teaching and educational administration. </span><span style="font-size: large;">High Elms Manor is in Garston, near Watford.</span><br />
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She is now being well looked after at the hospital in Watford. Her four daughters Roisin, Catrine, Lili and Ailise visit her in turns.<br />
<br />Alice and I went with Brigid and her son Chris on Wednesday (visiting hours are from 4 pm), and arrived as Sheila's youngest daughter Ailise was leaving.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">L to R: Sheila, Brigid and John, three of the six children</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">of Spike and Hilda van Stockum Marlin. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Photo by</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Alice Tepper </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Marlin, five days </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">before <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/sheila-marlin-oneill-rip-sept-25.html">Sheila died</a>.)</span></td></tr>
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Sheila asked us: "Tell me stories."<br />
<br />Sheila and her daughters had their 15+ minutes of fame six years ago as they and their home, High Elms Manor, were the subject of <a href="http://www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk/homes-gardens/interiors/country-house-rescue-in-garston-1-1643183">episodes of <i>Country House Rescue</i></a>, the popular British television show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The family received great compliments from the show's host, Ruth Watson. She said that no other country house rescuers had been so responsive to her suggestions.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Postscript: Sheila died on September 25. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Newspaper Stories: <a href="http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/15408660._Much_loved__headteacher_retires_after_50_years_of_schooling/?ref=ar">Sheila's Retirement</a> . <a href="http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/15575227.Family_pays_tribute_to____truly_remarkable____children___s_author_who_lost_battle_with_cancer/?ref=ar">Sheila's Death</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Other Posts: <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/sheila-marlin-oneill-rip-sept-25.html">Sheila Marlin O'Neill, R.I.P.</a> . <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/sheila-her-four-daughters.html">Sheila's Daughters and Grands</a> . <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/sheila-oneill-funeral-oct-13-2017.html">Sheila's Funeral</a></span></span><br />
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John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-32462311547469120412017-09-05T10:47:00.001-07:002017-09-22T21:12:00.215-07:00HvS | 1946 – Dublin, Montreal<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><b>[<a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/hvs-links-to-letters.html">Links to other years</a>]</b></span></div>
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agency I.C.A.O, to be based in<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11px;">Hilda Marlin</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Feb 25, 1946</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Dearest Husband.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have already written you what I think about going to Ireland. [This plan worked out, five years later. The Marlins lived in Europe 1951-1955, after several vacations in Europe. –JTM]</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I'll be able to pay for it and I think it is the right thing to do, considering the fact that Mother [Olga van Stockum] isn't getting any younger and she really should see her relations. I even thought if we could leave the children in good hands, Mother and I could take two weeks off to go to Holland and see Jan [her younger brother, who died soon after]. But of course, there are drawbacks too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It is almost as expensive to send the children to camp as to go there. I'd have to send four this year. You don't know whether you'd find a house – you've been promising a house for the past nine months, and it is </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">unfair</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> to leave us another summer in Washington. The maids are getting later and less efficient every day, it is high time we went. We'll have to go to Europe </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">sometime</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> and it may as well be when we have no house so we save that. Also, you can claim either the equivalent of our Washington-Montreal Trip, </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">or</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> passage from Dublin-Montreal out of your organization [ICAO], since they can't have it both ways - they owe that to us and it will lessen expenses. Then, in this initial stage you'll be free to do all the traveling you want and you'll have plenty of time to look for a house in Montreal. And if the organization meanwhile decides to move it has saved us a lot of fuss. For the children it will be a very broadening experience and they are wild with delight over it. So is mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Providing I get passports and a place on a boat it is possible that it wouldn't be so easy to go back. The troop movement to America is terrific and so are the wives. Miffy seemed to doubt the likelihood of our getting back. Cook's was less sombre. But of course I'd hate to travel with all these children during crowded condition. Would you be prepared to have us stay away, say, till the following spring? Because I am bound in honor to say that's what might happen. I personally wouldn't mind that, since I don't believe you'll be around much anyway and I feel I'd probably see you as often in Dublin as anywhere else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It would also make it easier for me to pay if I had only to worry about one trip at the time. (They don't issue return tickets.) Of course then the problem remains what to do with the furniture – you'd have to put it in storage and you know what the Wagners got into when it came to storage. It would have to be well tabulated etc. and you'd have to do it. And I'd have to have my bank deposit transferred to, I guess, Montreal and another safe deposit box. You'd simply </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">have</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> to help. I couldn't do it all alone. I would take enough stuff with me for a year, in case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You see, it isn't by any means as simple as it sounds, but I can't help feeling that it is the right thing to do. I shall tell you exactly how we stand financially. I have at present one thousand dollars on the bank with one thousand dollars more expected from The Junior Guild. You got a check of about four hundred and fifty dollars of which I sent one hundred dollars to your mother who has had an awful time, a doctor, cleaning her ear, pierced her eardrum and it abcessed and she had to go to a specialist. She suffered terribly. Also, I took money for the girls’ trip to New York, which was about twenty dollars, counting taxis etc. (They are coming home today.) So you have now three hundred twelve dollars and fifty cents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Then we have in War bonds:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">– of the children’s bond value $300.00, present value $221.11</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">– of us " " $3475.00, " " $2971.15</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I hope to buy with February's money another one hundred dollars which would bring it up to $3046.15</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I am in bed with grippe, the second time. Haven't been at all well. It sort of struck me as funny that if someone died here we wouldn't even know how to notify you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Well, it was you who suggested going to Ireland but you can understand how the idea delights me. I am so sick of Washington. It would be good for the children too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I should like to send Johnny to the Montessori School in Blackrock. Mother and I were just saying he is the perfect Montessori child and it is a shame that he doesn't live where he can get that kind of training. And it wouldn't be fair to Harrie [Jameson Kirkwood, in Dublin] to deprive her of Mother when she is so sick. Couldn't you manage to get more work in Ireland so we could stay there for a year? I </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">promise</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> not to ask for any more. As a matter of fact, I should like to see Montreal and it would be a disappointment if that didn't come off. But Paris would be even better. I am going to the passport office as soon as I am better. Please forgive the scribble. And write oftener.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">P.S. Olga's Sister instructed them on sex. She said if they wanted to know anything to go to their parents. So Olga said: "Of course, I'd go to you. I'd hate to go to Daddy, </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">he isn't the type</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">!!</span></div>
John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-83087767273237515732017-09-05T10:26:00.001-07:002017-09-09T11:05:15.144-07:00HvS | Links to Letters 1943-1971<b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/hvs-wartime-letters-to-erm-1943-44.html"><span style="color: blue;">1943</span></a> – </span><span style="color: #351c75;">To ERM, O.S.S., London</span></b><br />
<b><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/08/ww2-letters-fdr-re-elected-nov-1944.html" style="color: blue;">1944</a><span style="color: blue;"> – </span>To ERM, O.S.S., London (MIA, Death of HvS's brother Willem), Hunger Winter</b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/07/hvs-letters-february-15-1944.html"><span style="color: blue;">1944</span></a> </span>– </span>To Bertha Mahoney, <i>The Horn Book</i></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/hvs-ww2-1945-to-erm.html"><span style="color: blue;">1945</span></a> </span>– To ERM, United Nations, Provisional ICAO Jul-Aug</b><br />
<a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/hvs-postwar-1946-dublin-montreal.html"><span style="color: blue;"><b>1946</b></span></a><b> – To ERM, ICAO</b><br />
<b><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2016/10/marlins-europe-1954-55.html"><span style="color: blue;">1954-55</span></a> – To Joan Dowling and Others – Marlins' Pilgrimage, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy</b><br />
<b>1971 – To Brigid, Letters on <i>The Borrowed House</i> <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2016/10/hvs-letter-1-to-brigid-about-borrowed.html">1 </a> <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2016/10/hvs-letters-to-brigid-about-borrowed.html">Evil 2</a> <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2016/10/hvs-letter-3-on-borrowed-house-epiphany.html">Epiphany 3</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965772646594148742.post-36228820678443209262017-09-05T08:15:00.002-07:002017-09-09T20:04:11.047-07:00HvS | WW2 1945 to ERM Jul-Aug, ICAO<div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">1945 </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/hvs-links-to-letters.html"><span style="color: blue;">Other years</span></a> <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/hvs-wartime-letters-to-erm-1943-44.html"><span style="color: blue;">1943</span></a> . <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/08/ww2-letters-fdr-re-elected-nov-1944.html"><span style="color: blue;">1944</span></a> . <a href="http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2017/09/hvs-postwar-1946-dublin-montreal.html"><span style="color: blue;">1946</span></a></span></b><br />
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<b>HvS > ERM 1945-7-12</b></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Hilda Marlin</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">July 12, 1945</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">[From April to June, a conference in San Francisco created the United Nations. ERM was there, having left the O.S.S. and now representing the U.S. Budget Bureau. He served as the Secretary of the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization in Chicago. He is being asked to join the newly created ICAO at their new headquarters in Montreal as an officer. On July 10 the Louvre reopened in Paris; on July 11 the Soviet Union handed over control of Western Berlin to U.S. and U.K. forces.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So glad to get your letter with your views on world affairs. You misunderstood my remark about the vicar of Christ, I only meant that Miffy [Mr. Smith, WW2 roomer from London], not willing to concede to the right of one person who decides spiritual matters in Christ's place, is of course equally unwilling to see someone assume that power in worldly matters. I would never recommend the Pope as arbiter of worldly affairs – not even in an ideal society (which, according to my views, would be a society spiritually united under the Pope). Only it should be guided by the laws of justice indicated by the church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As for the atonement – I only meant that it had been a mystery to me for so long why Christ only could pay the debt of sin in the world. They had only been empty words to me which I accepted on the authority of the church, but which I never visualized, having even a faint distaste for the whole thing as utterly unjust. And it is my feelings about the criminals in Europe that makes me </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">approach</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> the meaning – just a faint inkling of what it might mean. It isn't that I recommend that the criminals be let off – it is only that one feels that their state is already so miserable (though they don't know it) that whatever fate befalls them makes hardly any difference and certainly does not constitute a payment for what has been done. You might as well punish flames for devouring a house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Only the sufferings of good people seem to have any spiritual value – Which reminds one of the fact that animals brought to the altar always had to be without blemish. And for that reason of course, only the sufferings of Christ, being without sin, would be perfect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Another way to approach it would be to say that to exact retribution from the Germans we would have to act like the Germans and be like the Germans. Which would make everything worse all around. And from a loving God we might imagine that the alternative to Christ would have been to give us over to the Devil, only He didn't do it because He is a loving God – just as we don't want to imitate the Germans because we are still civilized. These are only approaches, mind you, but it helps a lot, all the same. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Meanwhile I agree about the loss of valuable lives, from a worldly point of view. But so you might have said: "A pity that Christ had to die so young." Which is manifestly absurd. The worldly point of view is usually a travesty of the truth and God. Who could raise men from dead bones can raise gifted men from fools, if necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I was interested in your account of the unfortunate little boy. You have the same feelings about him I had about the Peters boy. I felt it was sinful to have wished Elisabeth to be a boy when she is so strong and normal. But I think I would prefer a brilliant boy with an abnormal body than the other way around, though his suffering is much greater. I believe a great saint was just like that – I remember reading about him. He was useless anywhere, so he was stuck in a monastery and he became one of the wisest writers and saints of the Medieval Church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Are his parents Catholic? I believe the Church has great consolations for children like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As for going to Montreal [with ICAO, which the family did do], I would think it a delightful adventure if it weren't for my "healthy stream," I really quail at a a new household without help. I know that comfort is often opposed to happiness – but somehow the confusion of six children without help seems to me a happiness I can do without. All the same I leave the decision to you. Jane Gorman is heartbroken at the idea of my leaving. She was telling me a funny thing – her daughter Susan said to her:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">"Mother, if Mrs. Marlin gets to Heaven before you, do you think she'll help you in?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Shows you the hero worship going on in that family!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Randal would love you to visit his camp for a week-end. Mother didn't tell him about Montreal because she is afraid he'd be too upset. Richard and Gilroy are the world to him at present!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From: Hilda Marlin</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">July 25, 1945</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We are the last ten days in The Toils of Birdie's Vacation, so I'm just as glad you didn't come. It makes me less than eager to start existence without a servant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have those two interesting communions and I manage to keep on working, did two and a half drawings the first Birdieless week, but of course the even monotony of the days suffer and the house runs down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The children quarrel in the rain, Mother is in bed with rheumatism and my only vice is cherries. I buy too many for the budget and I excuse myself that it's about all I eat (no meat since you left) that I don't spend money on myself in any other way and have no other relaxation. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">Still, I am myself down to one pound a day and then I went to Mrs. Gorman and brought her the pound I had "saved." She was so pathetically glad – she had looked at them all summer, she said, but couldn't afford them. I felt like a filthy Croesus and wished I'd brought her two pounds. I am really being a help to her – she has difficulties with her husband and I help her straighten herself out but I might use my own advice sometimes, I think. Only I do think it's hard for a woman never to have any money of her own and I know I am terribly lucky to be earning and to have a husband who allows me free use of my own money. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">I think there is something essentially unjust in an arrangement by which a woman works as [hard], or harder, than a man (she does all the washing and cleaning with only some help for the ironing) and always has to feel she has to account for every penny she spends without any money ever for her own. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">Now her husband accuses her of wastefulness and is taking the management of the money himself, only allowing her money for food. And food prices have gone up so she can't manage and she is at her wit's end. I told her some economies she could make, but she says she has done that already, and she doesn't want her children's health to suffer. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">Of course, they haven't managed things as well as we. She isn't a member of a coop and hence she hasn't got the saving in milk and spends ten dollars more a month. She isn't a member of Group Health, and though she has a garden she didn't fertilize it so she hasn't got a crop. Those things are a matter of foresight and knowledge and in these things they are a little hobbledehoy. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">Then she has a passion for reading and buys a book occasionally to her husband's disgust. I think he ought to be pleased to have a wife with only that extravagance, but of course I don't tell her that. I tell her that I can see his point of view, that he wants to save for emergencies and that if he got a cut in salary she'd have to manage too. I tell her simply to buy less of the expensive food; but as she says, you can't always get it. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">Corn costs a dollar for a dozen ears now! I have ceased to buy it, cherries are cheaper. Even without meat and vegetables (I have my own now, plenty of beans, carrots, squash, cucumber, onions, parsley and spinach) I spent almost three dollars a day just on bread, butter, melons, oranges, cherries, peaches and, occasionally, ice cream. And not extravagantly either. Fruit for one meal at a moderate quantity, comes to almost a dollar. Prices are terrific. I am glad I don't have to buy meat. I was able to give the Gormans almost eighty red points [ration coupons]. They were so glad. But, you see, they do spend it on meat and so they can't buy the fruit. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">The garden is a lifesaver, for vegetables are almost as expensive as fruit this summer and I couldn't have melons or cherries if I hadn't labored over my beans. [The victory garden is featured in <i>The Mitchells, </i>which is about WW2 Washington, D.C.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The weeds are terrific on account of the rain. And the squash is up to my head almost with a profusion of blooms. I had to spend three dollars on insecticide too, but it will last me the rest of the summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I told Miffy about Jane's problems and he said: "But they have a good salary and they ought to be able to manage. Some people have to live on two thousand seven hundred dollars a year." I agreed, it is what has been worrying me all along, but I don't think it </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">is</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> possible in Washington. That's why all these women are working and children are neglected. Unless you put up your own food from a large garden, keep your own chickens and bees and own your own home you can't do it, certainly not with six children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That's why people won't have children any more and it's all wrong. But it's no good saying: "It must be possible," because it isn't. Though they don't have a maid more than once a week they have a car and a house to pay for and clothes and doctor's bills and a tonsil operation, etc. He took his vacation camping out with his two boys, to do it cheap, but that didn't benefit her, did it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Meanwhile this increase you were going to get boils down to four dollars less a payday, and I suppose the same goes for them. A queer increase!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Meanwhile I did a little article for Literary Guild and got the choice of eight books for it. So I thought of your birthday and got two for you – a six-dollar book in two volumes by [Alexis Charles] Henri de Tocqueville called "Democracy in America" which is supposed to be excellent and probably the sort of book you'd want to own and "The Mechanics (or something) of Peace," by somebody else, also supposed to be very good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I'll send them as soon as I get them, or perhaps I'll just send the peace and keep democracy in the bookcase for you, for that's more a thing to dip in than to read, I imagine. I hope you're glad – they were the only titles worthy to be kept I thought, the other things on world affairs seemed sort of temporary, like books on how to deal with three hundred photographs on New England and a book on contemporary American painters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For mother I got a new biography of Tolstoy and a light novel by Elisabeth Corbeth whom we both enjoy. For the children I got "All the Mowgli Stories" by Kipling and "The little book about God" by Lauren Ford. I think, considering the amount of ephemeral tripe there was, that those are not bad choices. And they amount to about twenty-five dollars. Of course I could have gone to town on picture books for the children but they have enough already and will get more from Viking. I felt they should only have their fair share, and classics are most hard to get at present. Most of them are out of print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Father Gorman saw the picture I did of the sacred heart after being infuriated with the one I had to hang in my room. (I then dropped it "accidentally" behind the bookcase and had to retrieve it for father Gorman to compare it with my own. Luckily I could then make him a present of the old one and have it off my conscience.) He is going to write to the promoter of the sacred heart about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Love to you -</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Wife</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>HvS > ERM 1945-8-3</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Hilda Marlin</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">3728 Northampton Street NW</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Washington D.C. 15</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">August 3 (?, n.d.), 1945</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Dear husband.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Enclosed is Olga's last letter and a comb case which she made for you with your initials on it. She looks stunning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Both girls look well and brown but Brigid [7] is all teeth and hair still. But Olga [10] has a radiance that takes your breath away. She has brushed her teeth regularly and they are sparkling white, her hair is long now and bleached golden. She is much thinner, her legs are beautiful and she is almost as tall as I am and has gained in "poise." She and Sister Petra got on famously this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11px;">Pop Polak came to see me yesterday, though her husband is in London. She was left behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>HvS > ERM 1945-8-27</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Washington D.C. 15</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">August 27, 1945</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Just got your notes. Please realize that whatever you decide will be all right with me. Your wistful wish to see the pictures has made me hang on to them until you see them. Though I don't know whether you'll like them if you do. The only thing I can say is that they're not like other people’s Bible pictures. I saw some in Woodward & Lothrop's bookstore and it is just as if people were scared to draw natural when they are doing it for the Bible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">They, the promoters of the sacred heart, sent back my sacred heart picture with a nice letter saying they didn't like the face and I agree with that. I realize you need a model and there is someone I can use beautifully, Father Blaise of our parish, a young Franciscan monk with a beard. I'm trying to get Father Gorman to persuade him to sit for me. Mrs. O'Sullivan who lives down the street has a plant which was used for the crown of thorns so I can get that straight too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have got into a fight with Mr. Dougherty about LendLease but he is fair and granted me some points. The funny part is that the American grievance is so illogical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">a) England should have known and she can get credit.</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">b) England won't take credit which is terrible because she </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">never</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> pays her war debts.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It sounds absurd, but that is the way they reason over here. Also:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">a) England is finished and she may as well realize it and all this protest is insincere because</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">b) We all know she is much richer and more powerful than she pretends to be and she only pretends because she won't face the fact that she is finished.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You won't believe it, but that's the way they argue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Randal will be at your mother's on the twenty-ninth and you can pick him up there. I'm afraid your mother and Ruth would want to come with him. Otherwise and at present I have no place and I am curiously tired – I don't want any more fuss than is necessary.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HvS and Children, about 1949<br />
Clockwise from HvS: John, Brigid, <br />
Randal, Sheila, Lis, Olga</td></tr>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>HvS>ERM 1943-1-11</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From: Hilda Marlin</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">3728 Northampton St., NW</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">To: Mr. E.R. Marlin</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">O.S.S. Detachment</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Jan 11, 1943</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Dearest, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I lost your letter asking me for underwear, please write me another, it is ready to be sent but they won't take it unless there is a request. I have three union suits, park wool $4.00 each, long, size 42 (they said that would be better since they shrink). </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So please write to ask me for them. I also have a pair of leather gloves, wool-lined (from your Mother and Ruth) and a beautiful little pipe of imported briar ($5.00). Very prettily curved, soft and light. A present from me. If you like some candy or tobacco I can send that too but you must </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">ask</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> for it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You ought to read “The Screwtape Letters” by a Mr. [C.S.] Lewis (Anglican), very good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The children liked the ballet all right but preferred "Cinderella". One little girl, when the two sisters were leaving Cinderella in the kitchen, cried aloud: "Why don't they hug her?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It is always noisy with comment – most of the spectators are very small children. On Randy's birthday there is going to be a magician at the same place - good coincidence, eh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From: 3728 Northampton Street NW<br />
Washington 15 D.C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Letter No. 23<br />
January 30, 1943</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Dear Husband,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Today we are living in Irish fashion with a temperature of fifty [degrees F] in an oilless house but with two wood fires burning. We were able to get wood at last, for twenty dollars a cord. They say they may come with oil tomorrow. They are three days behind in delivering on account of thick snow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Snow is jamming all the roads and clinging thick to the trees, yet it goes on snowing. One has to wade through lakes of yellow mud to cross a street and the bus goes bubble-bubble and as slow as a snail. I asked the bus man if it was hard driving and he said very. I asked him how the woman drivers were doing and he gave a crooked smile and told me they had only two and they left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Birdie [one of two domestic help in Washington; the other was called Weeshee] feels exceedingly injured because it's hard to get to work in the mornings. She has to see empty bus after empty bus pass, and then she has to mount one that can hardly hold people. It is hard to convince her that racial prejudice is not involved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I am writing this by the radio and through a concert program I suddenly hear a message of someone who has had an accident on Pennsylvania Avenue and is told to wait until the traffic cop gets there. Interesting. I suppose it's all on account of the weather. The meat counter (oh, they are telling the cops to halt a hit and run driver, it's just like a detective story!) is very empty. I only could get two hamhocks and a slab of veal today. The rest was all just bones and chickens. The one too low and the other too high. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have good news for you. Miss Bertha Gunterman [Editor at Longman's Green] likes my drawing very much and wants me to continue the woodcut style for the book and May [Massee, Viking Press], who hadn't told me she had accepted "Gerrit and the Organ" suddenly sent me a page of manuscript to ask whether I liked that type for it, so apparently she has taken it. I told her I wanted to know what she thought of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Randal is a funny little fellow and he seems to have an enormous attraction for some people. I had paid him for sitting for me and he lost two dimes in the snow. He told me about it while I was shopping in the Safeway, and I was hardhearted enough to say I wouldn't replace them, that it was his loss. The silent tears trickled down his cheeks and so one of the shop attendants gave him two dimes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I love my children, they're very sweet. Randal, Brigid, Sheila and I went out this afternoon and we met Mrs. Sullivan and stopped to chat. In the course of conversation the topic became germs and I told her how the children pick chewing gum off the street to eat it. She wanted to impress on the children how dirty that was and said: "A great big colored man might have had it in his mouth," as if a colored man's mouth was necessarily more dirty than a white man, a completely unnecessary addition to the moral and one that made me squirm. The children looked at her with limpid eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Afterwards Brigid asked me "What did she mean, colored man?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Randal had understood her to say "Car man."</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">"Oh," he said carelessly. "She meant someone who has a car."</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I could have kissed them both on the spot, but I didn't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I am starting a class or club for Olga. Every Tuesday afternoon Olga is going to have four friends who are going to sew with her. I felt she needed nice friends and she seems unable to attract them herself so I believe this is the answer. Randal won't have any trouble that way. You should see the girls who go to his class when they meet him accidentally on the street. They're quite ready to elope with him. By the way, he is getting an expert at arithmetic by counting his pennies and doing all sorts of sums with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Sheila has Christened John Anthony "Johnnyboy". Did I tell you that Baroness van Boetselaar [relative in Occupied Holland] has a son, a Caeserian birth? She lost one at four years with a weak heart and had several miscarriages but this one is said to be sound. So nice for her after two daughters. She seems to be doing well and to have been very brave. I suppose you heard about Margriet Francisca, I'm sure the Consul has elaborated on it. Congratulate him for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have got you a letter from someone whom I can't place. It looks like Blissaine Dell or Dull and she lives in Ingleside Terrace and has lost her mother. I'll have to condole her without having the faintest notion who she is and whether she is married or not. I shall have to feign illegible handwriting. She has apparently been to our house, but I'm sure I never saw her name spelt and anyway, I always felt as if you were a kind of file I could consult in these matters. It's very awkward having one's file walk off on one. But I'll have to do the best I can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Oh goodness, that reminds me I </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">have</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> to thank Edna Gorman for the presents she sent the children at Christmas so goodbye for the nonce. I may have to write you less frequently in the future with two books to illustrate. Please pray for me and I'll pray for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Love, <br />
Hilda</span></div>
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