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Meet The Fam To understand my journey, we must look back to the years before my birth. In the small village of Scottdale, Pennsylvania, si...
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Chapter 1: The Mirror of Life I 've repeatedly said that the end makes the best beginning, so that is where we will start with Agnes ...
The thing that puzzles me about this letter is why did Agnes keep it? From what I gather, she didn't save any personal correspondence as (I assume, considering how secretive, maybe even borderline paranoid she was about her private stuff) she didn't want it to become public. The only two surviving pieces of writing that refer to her private thoughts and events are this letter and her diary entry on Peggy's death. I guess the latter survived because it was hidden in her notebook so she must have forgotten it was there, but I can't really understand why she'd hang onto this letter? Surely not for sentimental reasons as it's a horrific letter in every sense - it's both a reminder of her sister's tragic end and Molly's shocking attitude towards it, not a happy memory of her sister's life. And also, it reveals the secret Agnes would most definitely not want made public. It confuses me.
ReplyDeleteAnd why on earth was she so secretive? I mean, even someone like Garbo, who famously went out of her way to keep her private life private, still left her correspondence behind her. Agnes, you weird lady, you.