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She had always known about this "last letter", and what it revealed.
She had long known about this "last letter", and what it revealed.
This last letter is a poignant one, the father sensing perhaps that he has arrived at a watershed in his relationship with his son.
In this last letter to the children, daddy adds a single line: "Hold everything for arrival of great travellers bearing strange gifts".
Two weeks after receiving this last letter, he wrote, "My lovely wife joins me in sending you our best, but she didn't add 'whoever he may be' — she knows.
The furore aroused by the New Statesman's publication of this Last Letter is both a tribute to the radioactive power of the Plath-Hughes poetic legacy and a reminder of Hughes's contemporary status.
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The letter says, textually: "My dear, this is the last letter that I write to you.
So far as is known, this is the last letter to pass between them.
This is the last letter I got from him.' The authorities probably don't believe the letter.
I'm pretty sure that, as I did so, I told myself that this was the last letter I'd ever be receiving from Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.
"And then she wrote – and obviously it was too much for her – because she wrote, 'This is the last letter I'm going to send to you about your granddad.' And she underlined it.
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