Re: Muriel in S:AI -Reply

Peggy F. Jean-Louis (pfj6868@is.nyu.edu)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:00:50 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Patti Larrabee wrote:

> Call me a romantic but I have always seen the fact that Muriel would not
> allow publication of the poems as a sign of her still grieving for her
> husband.  Perhaps they were a reminder of his deep sensitivity of perhaps a
> source of his social ineptness.  I have given this some thought over the
> years and I never thought of financial gain as one of her motives.
> Patti
> 

Well, I think that is very interesting, I never thought about it that way.
She did love Seymour very much and seemed very accepting of his
eccentricities. But what do you make of the fact that she intended to
allow the poems to eventually be published once Buddy had finished editing
them? Do you think that perhaps she felt that once the initial grieving
period was over, she wouldn't mind as much?

Peggy