Joy, Leatrice, 1894-1985 to Alan Brock
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05508.152.01 Author/Creator: Joy, Leatrice, 1894-1985 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 22 September 1972 Pagination: 2 p. : Order a Copy
Joy discusses death and grieving. She writes that we must act as the person who died would have liked us to behave. On the verso she writes: Death does not extinguish the light--it puts out the candle, for the dawn has come."
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