medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
afdtk wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> It might be considered off topic, Diana, but I'd personally love to hear
> more of *that* story!
>
> dkline, recovering from Kalamazoo
>
> _____________________________________
> Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D.
There is little more to tell. We gave a copy of the letter to what we
hoped were the archives when we visited in a very cold October 1987.
Unbelievably cold. And windy. My husband was dying & he wanted to give
me the most wonderful thing he had ever seen -- when a student at Oxford
around 1950 he had visited Chartres when it was snowing & since no one
was around he had gone up onto the roof & walked on the roof in the
falling snow. In 1987 we pulled aside the chairs and walked the
labyrinth. A scholar borrowed the original letter from the uncle from
me in 1989, after my husband died, plus a lot more papers from this
uncle who ended up in Munich with the art retrieval/restoration. He
died before he returned it, his wife said she would return the papers
personally, then she died. No papers. The uncle's name was Stewart
Leonard. He had worked with a WPA art program. He joined the Army in
WW2 with a bomb removal squad because his adored wife had died & he had
nothing to live for. In the 50s he was director of the St. Louis Art
Museum. So perhaps there is another copy of the letter somewhere. I
recall the letter described his being taken from attic to attic across
Chartres, by the résistance, before getting to the cathedral. He heard
the bridge blown up.
DW
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