STARK, Freya (1893-1993). A collection of nineteen autograph letters signed, one autograph letter and three autograph postcards signed to Lady (Rose) Young and three autograph letters signed to her husband, Sir Hubert Winthrop Young, Baghdad, Asolo, Benghazi, Aden and England, 20 April 1932 - 10 February 1979 (one n.d.) , describing her travels in the Middle East, including a visit to the marshes of Southern Iraq, 'a revealution of a sort of secret loveliness, all quiet waterways & the tall reeds shutting out the world - lovely but strangely ominous', her work in Baghdad during the war, 'attempting to create something you might call a public opinion in Iraq', reflecting on British policy towards the Arabs, sending general news and chat about friends, and giving her thoughts on a wide range of other subjects, approximately 70 pages, 8° and 4° . Freya Stark first met Hubert and Rose Young in Iraq, where Sir Hubert, a distinguished colonial administrator, was Counsellor to the British Commissioner. This engaging and colourful series of letters illustrates her infectious enthusiasm for travel, friendship, history and adventure, and even her unexpected and amusing enjoyment of clothes and treats. On a visit to the Bazaar she is 'irresistibly impelled to buy a pink silk taffeta dress with mauve flowers about 1880, all whalebone & bustle and little ruchings and most amusing'. She witnesses a Muharram procession of Persians, in which 'the horses were trapped with silver with heavy collars and little bells and groups of men came riding along blowing enormous trumpets painted red and yellow' and describes Ramadan crowds in Aden. Her expedition to the Hadramaut was also the occasion of a clash of personalities 'I was beginning to wonder if the title of my next book would be 'Archaeologists are they human?', for I could hardly bear Miss C[aton] T[hompson] any longer ... My dear Rose how I do dislike the ardent feminist sort of woman'. Freya herself strikes off across the Yemeni plateau where 'I got involved in various excitements including a small war which they had not mentioned to me'. In several letters she refers to her writing, and in particular her justification of the writing of autobiography, and publishing her letters. Three of the letters are published. (26)
STARK, Freya (1893-1993). A collection of nineteen autograph letters signed, one autograph letter and three autograph postcards signed to Lady (Rose) Young and three autograph letters signed to her husband, Sir Hubert Winthrop Young, Baghdad, Asolo, Benghazi, Aden and England, 20 April 1932 - 10 February 1979 (one n.d.) , describing her travels in the Middle East, including a visit to the marshes of Southern Iraq, 'a revealution of a sort of secret loveliness, all quiet waterways & the tall reeds shutting out the world - lovely but strangely ominous', her work in Baghdad during the war, 'attempting to create something you might call a public opinion in Iraq', reflecting on British policy towards the Arabs, sending general news and chat about friends, and giving her thoughts on a wide range of other subjects, approximately 70 pages, 8° and 4° . Freya Stark first met Hubert and Rose Young in Iraq, where Sir Hubert, a distinguished colonial administrator, was Counsellor to the British Commissioner. This engaging and colourful series of letters illustrates her infectious enthusiasm for travel, friendship, history and adventure, and even her unexpected and amusing enjoyment of clothes and treats. On a visit to the Bazaar she is 'irresistibly impelled to buy a pink silk taffeta dress with mauve flowers about 1880, all whalebone & bustle and little ruchings and most amusing'. She witnesses a Muharram procession of Persians, in which 'the horses were trapped with silver with heavy collars and little bells and groups of men came riding along blowing enormous trumpets painted red and yellow' and describes Ramadan crowds in Aden. Her expedition to the Hadramaut was also the occasion of a clash of personalities 'I was beginning to wonder if the title of my next book would be 'Archaeologists are they human?', for I could hardly bear Miss C[aton] T[hompson] any longer ... My dear Rose how I do dislike the ardent feminist sort of woman'. Freya herself strikes off across the Yemeni plateau where 'I got involved in various excitements including a small war which they had not mentioned to me'. In several letters she refers to her writing, and in particular her justification of the writing of autobiography, and publishing her letters. Three of the letters are published. (26)
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