too – some of the business letters were as easily read as if they were typewritten; rather obviously, the industrialist hired men who could write with a clear and elegant hand. His mother-in-law, alas, wrote with a scrawl nearly as illegible as my own. His wife had the habit of savin...
'I was sorry,' she wrote to Venetia afterwards, 'as I had thought of one or two things I quite wanted to say!' Churchill, meanwhile, was keen for Violet and Clementine to like each other, so he tried his best to smooth away any hurt feelings. Two months after his wedding, he ...
“Capote finally consented and wrote one,” Lawson recalls. “And at one of the meetings everybody except me said, ‘Oh, we can’t publish this. It’s just not up to Truman’s quality!’ I said, ‘I think it’s much better than the other stuff that’s coming in.’ But it was...
During his life, he had suffered a few accidents that were detailed in the area newspapers. In October 1906, according to the Daily British Whig (12 Oct 1906, p. 5), “while Archibald Thompson was driving a team of horses they suddenly bolted, and in trying to stop them Thompson was b...
"The world looks different now," wrote Ryan Reynolds, who had fostered a loving relationship with White over the years. "She was great at defying expectation. She managed to grow very old and somehow, not old enough. We'll miss you, Betty." Fellow comedian Ellen DeGeneres called White'...
Following the accident, O'Brien's director Wes Ball shared his feelings of guilt on Twitter. "Well, it's been a whirlwind of emotions these past few days," he wrote. "I've been overwhelmed with feelings of anger and sadness and guilt. But ultimately, I find myself left with a deep ...
He wrote on his website at the time: “These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed.” ...