BLACKWELL FAMILY                GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE            HARVEY, PAUL  
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL                              Yew Tree Farm
Mayfield 
Sussex
July 26 25
Dear Madam
I am excessively grateful to you
for your letter of July 9th, which has
just reached me, and for the very kind
thought which prompted you to write
it.  I had for long been unhappy at 
having no news of Miss Barry.
My letters to Kilmer after Dr. 
Blackwell's death remained unanswered
and I learnt that she had returned
to America, but I was unable to 
discover her address. I was sure
however that she would there be 
among kind friends.  I am
immensely relieved to gather from 
your letter how well cared for she
is and indeed how fortunately situated.But I lament her infirmities and the
scanty share of pleasure that life can
afford her.  However I can see that 
everything possible is done to make her
happy.  I am writing to her by the
same mail, and telling her a little
about ourselves and our present mode
of life.  I wish I thought there were
some prospect of my returning to
America, so that I might have the
chance of seeing her once more; it
is improbable, but I have roamed
about on Government business so
much that I feel that I can
never say I shall not be sent to
such and such a place some day.
If I might trespass still further
on your kindness it would be to
ask you to let me know, by

quite a brief line at times how
Miss Barry (as I must still call her)
is faring.  I can hardly hope that
she is equal to writing herself. 
Yours sincerely
Paul HarveyPaul HarveyYew Tree Farm,
Mayfield
Sussex
Nov 14, 26
My dear Miss Blackwell
I have to thank you very heartily
for your letter of July 11th and for the prodigious labour
you undertook in writing from dictation Kitty's long
letters to my wife and myself.
I should have written to thank you
sooner but I was kept rather busy with my pen for
a time; then my wife fell rather seriously ill and 
after her recovery I in turn was laid up and
am only now feeling substantially better.  We are
hoping to go abroad in a fortnight's time, to spend
December in Italy, and I hope that the change of
scene and climate may set us both on our legs
again.
I take the liberty of asking you to be so 
kind as is expend the enclosed modest sum of £ 10
for Kitty's benefit in any such way as you may
think fit.  You say that so far you forsee there
will be no need for help, but I am very glad if I cando anything to promote Kitty's comfort; and another
year it may not be easy, my work for the Carnegie
Endowment, which was fairly well [?enumerated] was
almost fetered out, and we are threatened with 
higher taxation next year owing to this deplorable
coal strike.  Also it seems to me that every year
one's doctor's bills get heavier!
In writing to Kitty I will put in a word about 
over feeding dogs! 
Your account of her [?] of life and of her 
courage and patience was most interesting to me,
and I cannot tell you how glad I am to think of 
her in such kind and sympathetic hands. I 
trust that your own health since your operation
keels good; as for happiness I feel sure that, so far as
it is in the reach of any of us, so active and
beneficent a person as yourself must possess it.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Harvey
*Paul Harvey


BIERTON HOUSE, 
MIDHURST,
Sussex.
Dec 15. 46
Dear Miss Blackwell
It was a great pleasure to receive once more your
card of Christmas greeting.  It bears
witness to your unconquered spirit
and induces courage in those who
receive it; and they need it in these
difficult times. How true the saying
is, that this world is no place for
cowards!
I hope I may take it as an
indication that life still goes tolerably
with you.  As for myself, I am beginning 
to feel the burden of my years rather
severely; but I have reason for great
thankfulness in that I yet have 
the power and the opportunity for work,the greatest anodyne. 
Believe me, dear Miss Blackwell, with the best of wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Harvey


BIERTON HOUSE,
MIDHURST,
SUSSEX.
24 Dec. 47
Dear Miss Blackwell
Your Christmas card with 
its brave and wise words reached me 
appropriately today on the eve of the 
festival. I cordially reciprocate 
your good wishes and rejoice to infer 
from what the card brings in the way 
of message that the spirit is still 
strong and true with you. I should 
have been glad of an assurance that 
your health is satisfactory.
We are not having a very cheerful 
Christmas, as you may suppose, but 
there is no despondency. On the 
contrary a general feeling of determination 
to win through out of our 
troubles. 
Believe me, dear Miss Blackwell,
Yours very truly
Paul HarveyMidhurst
Sussex
Dec 16. 45

Dear Miss Blackwell

I received with much pleasure your card, with its brave and encouraging message, a spiritual tonic welcome in these days when hope is still mingled with gloom and grave anxiety. The whole world depends for its happiness, in great measure, on your mighty country, and we pray that it may show wisdom, forbearance, and magnanimity. 

Reciprocating your good wishes, I remain, dear Miss Blackwell, as always,
Yours very sincerely
Paul HarveyBierton House
Midhurst
Sussex
Dec 12. 43

Dear Miss Blackwell

I was very glad to receive 
your card of greetings and your words 
of good cheer. I rejoice to see that, 
with you, the spirit still burns brightly. 
I hope that the new year may bring you 
and us a more cheerful, or at any 
rate a more hopeful, world.

Sincerely yrs
Paul Harvey


Bierton House
Midhurst
Sussex
Sept 29. 36

Dear Miss Alice
I am obliged for your letter 
of the 13th in which you kindly offer to 
send me various photos left by Kitty. 
Alas! I have come to the time of life where 
it behoves me, out of consideration for 
my executor, to destroy rather than to 
increase possessions of this kind. I have 
late burned a great many things of a sentimental 
order, letters, mementoes, & which will be 
of no value or interest to my survivor. 
I wrerd even if I did not think this rather 
a duty, our move to the cramped quartersof this little old house would have made it
imperative.  So I hope you will be so 
good as to regard the articles your letter
refers to as handed over to me in 
intention, and to destroy them at my request.
Let me at the same time thank you warmly
for your kind thought for me in this matter.
I am glad to know that the ordeal of
your move is satisfactorily over.  I hope 
that it has not left you too tired.  We
too had a dreadful time, with builders' 
workmen for a fortnight sharing this house
with us - and other horrors.  The worst
is now over, but I am sorry to say not
paid for!
Sincerely yours
Paul Harvey


Yew Tree Farm,
Mayfield,
Sussex.
June 28. 36
Dear Miss Alice
The news of poor Kitty's death, though
I knew it could not long be deferred, brought me great
sorrow.  Sad and circumscribed as her life has been of 
late, one could hardly wish it otherwise for her sake.  But
it is the breaking of a link with a long past and the
passing away of a gallant soul – and what a gallant
soul she was!  Her bravery amid her afflictions fills me
with wonder and admiration, an example to be humbly
followed, if one can.  I ponder too over her touching
loyalty and affection, her charming sense of humour, her
enthusiasms and her sturdy antipathies.  My sympathy
goes out to you, who tended her so lovingly and devotedly,
and I thank you earnestly for the kindness with which
you have kept me informed – when there were so many 
other calls on your time and trouble – of her health 
and doings.
Well, the chapter is closed, and we cannot wish that
it had been prolonged.  I mourn her, and I meditate gratefully
on what I owe to her lifelong affection for me.  I need not
say more.
Sincerely yours,
Paul HarveyYew Tree Farm
Mayfield
Sussex
May 13.36
Dear Miss Alice
I am very much
obliged for your letter of the 29th
ult. giving news of Kitty.  I
am indeed glad that her hearing
has improved again; it is dreadful
to think of her total exclusion from 
both sight and hearing of the 
world around her.  I am filled with 
admiration of her courage and
cheerfulness with these afflictions;
[not less do I admire the devotion
with which she is tended by those 
around her.] I wish I could
muster the same courage to facemy own much lesser troubles.  Resignation
is all I can compass.
We are moving in the course of the
late summer to a smaller and rather
melancholy little place at the Village
of Midhurst at the other end of this
county, where we hope to be able to
live more economically.  Unfortunately
our intentions have been in a 
measure frustrated by finding out, too
late, that the house we are moving
to requires, among other repairs and
alterations, a new roof!
Please give my love to Kitty and 
tell her I often think of her.
Sincerely yours,
Paul Harvey

Bierton House
Midhurst
Sussex
Jan 4. 42
Dear Miss Blackwell
It is very good of 
you to remember me and send
me your New Year greetings and
the heartening sentiments of your
apt quotations.  I am glad to see
that you face the gloomy prospect
before us with your accustomed
courage.  While for my part I have
no doubt that we shall issue successfully 
from the war, I am less
confident that the democratic nations
will show sufficient foresight,
self-denial, and a readiness to [suit?)national prejudices, to deal successfully
with the appalling problems of the
ensuing peace in the common interest.
However, we have enough to think of
with the task immediately before us.
I should have liked to learn from
you how you are yourself in point 
of health and eyesight; you have 
my best wishes in respect of these
matters, and the assurance of my
very cordial remembrance.
Sincerely yours
Paul Harvey