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    A Pearl of Great Price

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    'I kiss your heart. I kiss you everywhere.'

    New York, May, 1950. A warm Spring day and a short, and portly, thirty-five year old Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, pushes through the plush revolving doors of Harper's Bazaar, in the heart of bustling downtown Manhattan. He was taking a chance on offering 'A Child's Christmas in Wales', a prose piece that had already served him well, but Harper's were not to know that.

    There, he meets Miss Pearl Kazin, Fiction Editor, highly-educated and out to make her own mark on New York; a woman, vastly different in manner, substance and background to his other New York 'lady-friends', with whom he fell in love, with consequences that were to disturb him profoundly for more than a year.

    An intense and passionate relationship began on that day. One side of their correspondence has survived, six 'love letters', never before published, sent from Dylan to Pearl. Until these letters came to light Pearl had remained something of a ghost; now, they offer part of Dylan's side of the story.

    'Pearl, darling... I'll sit in the Savage, drinking Punch and reading sherry until your letter comes. The world is empty this side of the damned sea. I love you, Dylan.'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParthian Books
    Release dateJul 7, 2014
    ISBN9781909844797
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      The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas is a small volume of 84 pages, containing 35 letters written over the period between September 1933 and June 1953. They are a selection from a larger volume of letters, available as The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas, with the same publisher.This selection of The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas is a strange and disappointing publication. In a very short (1.5 page) introduction the apparent unnamed editor describes the book as "just a short selection" which gives its readership a glimpse of Dylan Thomas' life "in a way that is almost incomprehensible to the lost email generation." (p. v)Love letters are a form of letter writing which is often infused with magic, and they are often considered to belong to the most beautiful among an author's letters "binding the reader by the spell of his words" (p. v).The problem with The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas is that it does not define what are love letters and what not. Hence, the volume presents letters to nine different women. Some of these letters do not appear to be love letters at all.The most creative and passionate letters are the first nine letters to Pamela Hansford Johnson, written over a 2-year period from Sept. '33 till Dec. '35, before het met his wife. Throughout the book, there are 15 letters to his wife Caitlin MacNamara. These letters are interspersed with incidental letters, usually just one or two seven other women. One of these is a letter to Edith Sitwell in March 1946. The unnamed editor characterizes this letter as "an attempt to rekindle a profitable friendship".In 1952, Dylan's wife intercepted an unfinished and unsent letter to Marged Howard Stepney, whom the editor describes as rich and generous to Dylan Thomas. He apologizes to Cait saying that the [letter] was dirty and cadging and lying, and that he wrote it [b]ecause I wanted to see what foul dripping stuff I could hurt myself to write in order to fawn for money.The picture that emerges of Dylan Thomas is that of a cad, who entices women for money and influence, or simply some attention while away from home.However, this image is possible only created by the clumsiness of the unnamed editor of the book, who fails to recognize that a successful author may get dozens of letters from admirers, and that a letter addressed to a woman with opening words such as "my love" or "my dear", etc. may express love or simply deep-felt attachment or friendship, while his wife's jealousy is probably an overreaction.The editor describes Dylan's letter to his wife as an attempt to smooth her disgusted feathers. Disgusted feathers?Perhaps it was a wise precaution of the editor to appear unnamed; an editor, who perhaps also belongs to the lost email generation.